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The night after Liam breaks up with him, Alex goes out with some of the cast and crew of Paradise. He’s never socialized this way before, never wanted to, but his options are limited to going out or staying in his hotel room alone and moping over both Paul and Liam.
Alex is tired of feeling sorry for himself. He’s never been one to wallow in his pain; he likes to take action to solve his problems. And if a bar in Tribeca has never been his particular poison, well, he’s been trying a lot of new things lately.
There’s a guy there, a friend of somebody in the cast, who stares at Alex from the moment Alex walks in. For the first half of the night, Alex avoids the looks. Nobody looked at him like that before his life changed, and now it feels like everyone does. Alex never trusts the sinc
