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"Um…" Real cool, Amy. "Hi," I added. "Sorry, I can't talk right now. I'm at work."
"Don't hang up!"
I hadn't been going to. Why hadn't I been going to hang up? "Okay."
"I don't want to talk over the phone." The melodic strains of his voice rumbled down the line and had me pressing the phone more firmly to my ear. It was a mesmerizing voice. No wonder I'd listened to him for hours on Saturday night. "Can we meet for lunch?"
I'd never had so many requests for lunch in one day before, two of them from guys. Lucky me. "I can't."
"Tonight?"
"I have to work late." Maybe.
Silence. Did he know I was avoiding him? "I could pick you up and take you for a drink afterwards. Where do you work?"
"I'll be really late. Sorry."
I thought I heard him suck in a breath, but it could have just been
