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“It is,” I say. “Is that a problem?”

He doesn’t respond.

“Sounds perfect,” Tabitha says. “What time should we pop by?”

I check my watch. “How about six? We can make the pizza our dinner.”

“Does that work for you guys?” Tabitha asks, nodding to Eli and Ralph.

“Sounds great.” From Eli.

Ralph stays silent.

I know the look on his face. I’ve seen it before.

He doesn’t like rich people. He thinks we’re all entitled snobs.

But he can think whatever the hell he wants. I got over those prejudices long ago.

Chapter Six

Jason

Kissing Angie was a huge mistake.

An even bigger mistake is stalking her online.

Her socials are pretty straightforward. She has a sister named Sage, brothers named Henry and David. Tons of aunts, uncles, and cousins, and damn…

She’s a member of the Steel family. The Steels pretty much own the Western Slope of Colorado. And here she is living in Boulder, going to medical school.

A rich girl. A trust-fund baby.

Everything I certainly never was.

I paid my own way through medical school and ended up six figures in debt. It’s paid off.

From funds I would gladly give back.

I’m feeling something, though.

Something I haven’t felt since Lindsay.

Whatever it is, I need to flatten it now. She’s a student, and I’m her teacher.

Not only would I risk losing my job if I got involved with her, but my own ethics won’t allow it.

Which doesn’t explain why I’m stalking her on her socials right now.

I don’t like the way she made me feel.

Yet I yearn for the way she made me feel.

It’s been so long.

I close my laptop. Enough of this shit. Besides, I have an appointment.

Thursday afternoons—or evenings, depending on my schedule—I always go to the same place.