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my phone, almost dropping it in the trash, where I was just throwing the eggshells in. How does he know?
     
    Leo: Oh, yes, I know you heard everything. Surprised?
     
    It takes me a few seconds to come up with a witty response.
     
    Samantha: Hardly. Everyone could hear your fight.
    Leo: Oh, so that’s why it took you so long to reply.
    Samantha: I was busy cracking eggs, and then had to contemplate whether to throw them away or bring them with me so I could throw them at your face.
    Leo: HA! So we have a date.
    Samantha: A date? No. Hell no.
    Leo: But you’re coming to see me, so I’d call that a date.
    Samantha: Call it whatever you want. I just need a drink.
    Leo: That can be arranged. As long as you come meet me.
    Samantha: Just a drink and talk. Nothing more.
    Leo: I can’t promise anything except the drinks.
     
    I roll my eyes.
     
    Samantha: Fine. Dive Bar around nine-ish.
    Leo: I don’t do ‘ish’. I’ll be there at nine. If you aren’t, I’ll wait.
    Samantha: Oh, such a gallant knight.
    Leo: I can be anything you want, Sam. You just need to imagine it.
    Samantha: I imagine a lot of things, but they never come true. Only the bad stuff. Especially when it concerns you.
    Leo: But you do imagine things with me. That’s a start. A good start. Imagine me doing a whole lot more.
    Samantha: Oh, here we go again.
    Leo: Don’t blame me for trying.
    Samantha: I don’t know why you bother.
    Leo: I don’t know why you think I wouldn’t. See you around nine.
     
    I mull over those last words as I’m really trying to make sense of it all. Is he really that interested in me? Or is it just a game to him? A way to get me in bed? Again, I might add. I shouldn’t fall for it and not be so stupid as to go out with him, but I really need the distraction, and Mr. Awesome has ordered me to go and have a fun time, so basically … I’m screwed.

Chapter 9
     
     
    I make my way to the local pub, the Dive Bar, where I find Leo sitting at a table already.
    “Sam … how lovely of you to actually come and join me,” he says, smiling widely. He gets up from his chair and holds out his hands. “Let me take your coat.”
    “Acting all chivalrous now, huh?”
    “It’s not an act,” he muses, winking at me when he comes closer.
    He stands behind me as I slip off my coat, his fingers gently stroking my arms, creating goosebumps everywhere. The scent of his aftershave is quite strong today. That, or I’m seriously addicted to his smell. Damn.
    We sit down at the table, which surprisingly also has a couch to the side, and he orders beer for the both of us.
    “I’m surprised you actually said yes,” he says.
    “To what?”
    “Coming here.”
    “Oh, I thought you meant the fake wife thing,” I say, breathing out a sigh of relief.
    “That, too.” He chuckles. “I didn’t expect any of it to go the way it did, to be honest. And I don’t mean you. You … you were perfect.” He gives me a cute smile that makes it hard for me to retort.
    “I’m surprised I went along with it all. Well, you did threaten to fire me,” I say as the waitress puts down our drinks.
    “I shouldn’t have, and I’m sorry. It was a stupid decision by a cornered, desperate man.”
    “For once we agree.”
    He laughs. “Well, to be fair, it was a great temporary solution to my problem.”
    “How? I mean, honestly, how long did you think we could keep up this charade?”
    “Honestly? A while. We were convincing. My parents believed it.”
    “Yeah, but for how long? And what would it have mattered if you had to tell them the truth anyway?”
    He sucks in some air. “I wasn’t actually planning on telling them to begin with.”
    “What?” I exclaim.
    “I just wanted them to believe it was real so I could fake-divorce you and then have it all be over with.”
    “So you were planning on keeping this real all along?”
    “Yeah, but it was going fine.”
    “Fine? Are you kidding me?” I want to throw my beer at him, but that would be