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deep breaths and my hands stopped shaking.
                  Finally Zoey nodded and said, “It's okay, don't worry about it. Next time just let me know if you are leaving without me so I don't worry about you. And that guy was nothing, you could have easily interrupted that.”
                  “Oh. It didn't look like nothing.  He's pretty good looking.”
                  “Trust me, it was nothing.”
                  I just nodded and continued to drink my wine. She followed suit and we sat in silence for a moment. I couldn't help myself, I just sat there brewing about Cole. Finally, I thought to hell with it . Against my better judgment I decided to ask Zoey about Cole. I needed to know for myself. Things had crashed and burned between us, and I wanted to know if it had anything to do with Zoey. Maybe I was just a one-night thing while Zoey was who he really wanted to spend his time with. It would explain all the bickering the night before.
                  “So...what's up with you and Cole? I couldn't help but notice that you guys had some sort of connection between the two of you.”  Though apparently having a connection with someone meant squat. At least in my case it did. Bitterness was killing me and I really needed to let it go.
                  Zoey smiled slyly and I was beginning to regret asking. There was something in her expression that told me that Zoey very much still had feelings for Cole. Was it unrequited love or something more? How did Cole feel about her?
                  “Well, Cole and I go way back...way, way back.”
                  “Really?” My heart plummeted.
                  “Oh yes. We have known each other since we were young, basically we grew up together. There were some close moments between him and I over the years where we could have become so much more, but it never really happened for us. We continued to get close over the years but we never got to the point where we really tried to be in a relationship. We sort of just hung in between this friends but not really friends stage for years. But something has been different lately between us, ya know?” She took a sip of wine and my stomach clenched in agony. I really didn't want to hear the story and yet I was willing to do just that. Torture was great, wasn't it?
                  “Wow really?” I was at a loss for words to the point where I couldn't even give smart responses.
                  “Ya, so you better back off, because Cole is mine,” she said while laughing.
                  I laughed nervously along with her and wondered what the hell I just gotten myself into. Zoey was trying to joke with me but I could feel the threat behind her words. I knew no matter what I had to stay very far away from Cole. She wasn't about to let me get close to him again, and that was probably for the best.

Chapter Twelve
    Cole
     
                  I felt sluggish at work since I had virtually gotten zero sleep the night before. I had stayed up all night tossing and turning all because of Avery. I could not get the girl off my mind no matter what I did. Now I was losing sleep over her too. I should have been able to forget her completely by that point; I always forget my one-night stands. They were just for one night. I rarely thought about them again. But Avery, no, she was different. She had taken my mind hostage and there didn't seem to be a time when she was going to give it back. I thought I would be done with her and yet it just wasn't that easy. She possessed me, and I wasn't sure how to shake her off me.
                  There was just something about her. I just loved the way her curves fit underneath my body; we had fit together like puzzle pieces. Sitting there at my desk I though about what it would be like to lay her down on top of it and have my way with her