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“Roman, what do you think is going on here?” The candles, the soft music, the dim lighting. Surrounded by couples, by people falling in love.
“A romantic dinner for two? The matronly lawyer attempts to seduce the debonair heir to the throne?” He spins his fork between his fingers. She raises an eyebrow. “The hot as fuck lawyer deigns to spend time with the doofy monkey boy?” he offers, and she can’t resist the smile that threatens to quirk her lips.
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“Always business, never pleasure,” he grouses as the waiter shows up, smile pasted on his face.
“Give us a moment, please,” Gerri says, because there’s a chance she won’t want to order anything, that she won’t want to have a meal, across from this version of Roman. The smile disappears as quickly as the waiter does, leaving them alone.
“Do you think I do this for pleasure, Roman? That I use what spare time I have trying to make you into something more than a dim-witted idling fuckwit?” He shifts in his chair and she leans forward, can see the vein pulsing in his forehead, knows he’s either angry or turned on or some combination of both. Her hand fists into the tablecloth slightly (not long enough to hide bare feet, after all) and she stares at him, willing their eyes to meet.
He gives in, he always does, and his dark eyes meet hers, moving back and forth like he’s scanning for her face.
“I think there’s the barest chance you might actually become something other than an addled cokehead like your brother or a self-righteous asshole like your sister. If you could think about something other than your pleasure for five minutes…” She trails off. Conversations like this have two endings: either she leaves Roman in lurch, too frustrated to tolerate his petulance, or he comes on her bathroom tile, the decision made to save real business talk for another time.
He came here tonight with pleasure in mind, because somewhere along the way, his addled brain decided he wanted to spend Valentine’s Day with her and that it might actually mean something.
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LOS EXTRAÑO TANTO
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the one where the spaghetti and meatballs cost $80