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Jake headed to the Monday meeting a few minutes later than usual. He didn’t want to risk running into Alyssa and having to talk to her. He knew it was childish, but he wasn’t over her, or anywhere close, and he couldn’t handle being around her knowing she’d walked away so easily.
Jake snuck into a seat at the back like he always did. Everyone else was already there and when Dillon saw him sit, he started the meeting without calling attention to Jake being late.
“Well, I think everyone knows we had a rough weekend,” Dillon began. “The wine festival did not pan out the way we’d hoped it would. Alyssa and I went over numbers already this morning, and it looks like we lost a good bit. The new inventory in the gift shop won’t go to waste, but the extra time we paid to have additional staf
