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Oh, Nicky, you are such a nerd!"
    I frown at her. "What? So now reading gossip about the private lives of people you don't know makes you a cool person?"
    Yuka chuckles and puts the magazine down to pour us some tea.
    "Well, at least I have not been living under a rock for years as you have," she says, winking at me.
    "Thanks," I whisper, more in regards to the tea she hands me than her unflattering remark.
    "I can't believe it," she continues, now holding the mug with fresh tea in her hands as she stares down at the article again. "Where on earth did you meet him? Don't tell me he was at the club?"
    "He was," I say. "That's where we met. He was drinking the same beer as me and we exchanged a quick look at the bar counter, before I turned around and walked away."
    "Walked away?" Yuka asks, frowning at me. "Why?"
    "I wanted to dance," I explain. "Besides, you know I'm not into this kind of guy. He was wearing suit pants and a shirt!"
    She laughs again, not at me this time, but at Evan, I hope.
    "He followed me, though," I continue. "I bumped into him while I was dancing, because he was standing so close to me."
    "Uuh," Yuka says, now seductively raising her eyebrows. "He came on to you? Sweet! And he was not appalled by your... dancing ?"
    I cast her a sulky look. "No. He even said he liked it."
    "Damn!" Yuka exclaims. "Smooth. He must have been really into you to say that!"
    "Once again, thanks," I mumble. "But yeah, I didn't buy it either. I left the club to get some fresh air and he followed me upstairs. And well... we started talking."
    "Aaand?" Yuka presses.
    "He was really charming, I have to say," I reply. "Very persistent, too. I didn't buy it. It was almost sickening –"
    "Oh, come on!" Yuka interrupts me. "Mrs. I-am-too-cool-for-compliments . You did sleep with him, didn't you?"
    "Yes, but –"
    "No but," Yuka interrupts again. "Be honest for once, girl. He was being nice – and it worked! Because even you are not as inaccessible when it comes to charming words as you wish you would be."
    I shrug and take a first sip of my tea. Of course, Yuka is right. But I hate it when other people – like her and Evan – seem to see right through me when I am trying so hard to not let this weak and approachable side of me shine through. I must be really bad at this.
    And I didn't even tell her that I felt drawn to him from the beginning, that he had this enticing aura about him that made me speak to him and follow him in the first place.
    And the crazy intense sex we had...
    "So, other than charming," Yuka says. "What's he like?"
    I can feel the blood rush to my cheeks and sincerely hope that she doesn't notice it. If she does, I would just blame it on the tea.
    "I don't know," I reply. "Mostly that, really. Charming. He didn't say much about himself and I wasn't allowed to ask any questions."
    "You weren't allowed ?" Yuka asks, raising her eyebrows with suspicion.
    Oh, I wasn't even allowed to look at him or make any decisions by myself – and I loved it. But of course, Yuka doesn't have to know that part.
    "Well, I was teasing him a lot," I try to explain. "Actually, I think I was rather rude to him."
    She chuckles. "Good. You didn't make it easy for him, huh."
    I shake my head, even though I am not entirely sure how true that part is. Did I make it hard for him? It certainly doesn't seem like I was playing hard to get, especially since it was anything but easy for me to fend him off, as much as I wanted to.
    "So, there was nothing strange about him?" Yuka keeps pressing.
    "What do you mean?"
    "Well, you read the article, didn't you?"
    She pushes the magazine back to my side of the table and turns it around for me to be able to read the text.
    "Sheila and him broke it off so abruptly," she says. "And then he just disappears from the spotlight completely? They were all lovey-dovey one day and then it was over the next. And he has never been seen with anyone else, not before her and not after her."
    "So?" I ask. "I don't see