My brain buzzed.
How was he here?
I later found out he’d done his undergrad at the same school.
While I was chasing him all over campus as a freshman, he was already in his first year of grad school.
And I, in my obsession, had somehow never known.
I’d thought I’d dug up everything about him.
Turns out our paths had crossed countless times on that small campus. I’d just been too oblivious to notice.
Fate really loves its jokes.
Brooke leaned in and whispered, “Oh my god, isn’t that—”
“Shut up,” I hissed through my teeth.
The evening dinner was at a restaurant with a long table for the group.
Somehow, Elliott got pulled in too.
He sat diagonally across from me—not too close, not too far—just in my line of sight.
The whole meal tasted like cardboard.
A guy named Cole next to me
