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“So, how’s your love life going? It’s been a while since we’ve talked about it,” I ask her.
Juliette shrugs her shoulders. “Same old, same old. Josh is great. Can’t complain. Anything new with you?”
I give her theI had a shit day and it’s because of a boylook.
Juliette’s mouth drops. “Spill.”
I take a long sip of my cosmo, savoring the slight burn as it travels down my throat. My, oh, my, I can’t wait to see how she takes this news.
“You remember that night I went out with that guy Jimmy?”
Juliette narrows her eyes as she tries to recollect. Seconds later, she loudly gasps and her eyes widen. “Harper’sbrother?”
“Yes. That one.” My voice is flat.
“Oh my God, is he hot?” She smiles.
“Yeah, well, I’m stuck with him now.”
“You’re what?”
“It’s a long story. Basically, he’s my protection now.”
“I’m so fucking confused,” she says. “You need to spell this out for me.”
I feel hunger and annoyance beginning to build in me. I briefly wish I would have just gone home after the gym and fueled up on lo mein and egg rolls instead of rehashing today’s unfortunate events.
I take a deep breath and reposition in my seat as I start to explain my situation, double-checking Harper isn’t returning to the table. “My dad has apparently gotten himself in deep shit and, for some reason, thinks that I need a bodyguard atall hours of the day. So, who’s the lucky man? Jimmy fucking Maxwell.”
I chug the rest of my cosmo and set it down hard on the table. I glance around again. Where is Harper?
“Oh my God,” Juliette says in a low voice. “Does your dad know about you two? Does Harper?”
I shrug my shoulders. “No, and I don’t know. I don’t think so or she probably would have said something to me. After the way things ended between him and I the first time we met, I’m sure Harper would be blowing my phone up if she knew he was hired to babysit me. It’s all purely coincidental, which is the crazy part about it.”
“But… what if it’s not? What if this is fate?”
I roll my eyes. Typical Juliette being her hopeless romantic self. She knows I don’t believe in that fate, love at first sight, romance bullshit. None of it’s real. Even Jimmy proved that to me.
“I doubt that’s what it is,” I mumble.
“So, like, when you say he’s yourbodyguardat all hours of the day… does that mean…”
I nod my head. “Yeah. Heliterallyhas to be with me everywhere I go every second of every day.”
A faint trace of a smile tries to spread itself on Juliette’s lips. I shoot her daggers and she calms down. “This is crazy,” she says. “Where is he now?”
“Who fucking cares. I need another cosmo,” I say, looking at my empty glass.
I feel the need to drink now that I’ve refreshed myself on what’s about to happen to me.
The conversation dies when a recovering Harper makes her way back to the table, sniffling and all. I look to Juliette to give akeep this on the down-low for nowlook.
“Hey, Blaire,” Harper says with a weary tone.
I fight the urge to roll my eyes at her woe-is-me face.
“Hey, Harps. Juliette told me what happened. I’m really sorry. It’s his loss, you know?”
