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day, after her swim. They were all right, she guessed. Hard to say if they had potential or not. Maybe she was too new at looking for talent. But Snatch . . . she
knew.
    Her phone buzzed in her pocket, and she reluctantly took her eyes off the stage. Alex’s name lit up the screen.
    Alex? What did
he
want? She needed to pay attention to the show, but curiosity compelled her to answer. “Hello?”
    “Hey, Em. How’s it going?”
    Really? Small talk? Since she’d caught him in the act all those months ago, they hadn’t talked once.
And now he wants to chat?
“Great.”
    “You’re at a show?”
    She had to press the phone to her ear to hear him over the music. “Yep. What’s up? What do you need?”
    “Ouch. Come on, Em. We’ve been friends forever.”
    Friends?
Friends didn’t . . . She drew in a deep breath. Not the time or place to get into it with him. “Alex, seriously, I can hardly hear you. What do you want?”
    “I just, uh . . . Do you want to go outside and talk?”
    Just then, Slater lifted the mic, tilting his head back and knocking out a note that had such clarity, such perfect pitch, such
emotion
, she all but stopped breathing to hold on to it and ride it out with him.
    “Em?”
    “Yeah, I’m here. I’m just . . . God, can he sing.”
    “Who? What band? Where are you?”
    She slid off the stool, making her way to the stage. “Derek’s. I’m in Austin. They’ve got serious potential.” Slater could be a superstar. If he wanted it enough, if he focused. But everything she’d heard about him led her to believe he’d just languish at the college level for a few more years before sputtering out and becoming a manager at Best Buy. He was a slacker who cared more about his groupies than his career.
    “Em? It’s too loud. Should I call you back?”
    Bodies knocked into her as the crowd erupted in wild applause at the end of the song.
    “Just say what you have to say.” Curiosity led her to the red neon Exit sign, though, and she stepped out into the warm September air.
    “Yeah, all right. Listen, Flash told me . . .” He paused, and she leaned against the brick wall of the club.
    What had Flash told him? That’d she been pining for him? Because that wasn’t true. Just because she’d asked Flash to close the door . . . God, she hoped Flash hadn’t said anything that would lead Alex to believe she still cared about him. Because she didn’t. “What? Flash told you what?”
    “Look, I shouldn’t have done that. With Val. Right outside your office. I wasn’t thinking.”
    A dozen responses danced across her mind.
No problem
.
Hey, you can flirt with whoever you like.
But nothing came out of her mouth. It
had
been a rotten thing to do.
    “I want us to get along,” Alex said.
    “In other words, Flash told you not to piss off Irwin’s assistant.”
    “No. Not at all. It’s not like that. It’s about you. Us. We used to be friends and now . . .”
    Now what?
You screwed your brains out on the road
. She didn’t think they could ever be friends again.
    “I shouldn’t have been such a dick, messing around with Val like that right in front of you.”
    “Whatever. Look, I have to watch the band. Let’s—”
    “No, not whatever. I’m sorry, Em. And I really want to be friends again.”
    “I don’t see that happening, Alex. You . . . God, you treated me like dirt.” She’d never had this conversation with him, and while she didn’t want to have it just then, she couldn’t keep the words from charging out. “Why didn’t you just break up with me before you guys left? It didn’t have to be like this.”
    “I know. But you’re not easy to break up with. You took care of me. I miss that.” He paused again. “You’re good, Em.”
    “Not good enough, apparently.”
    “Hey, you’re the one who started drifting.”
    “What?” How could he say something like that?
    “Oh, come on. Soon as you got us signed and we started working with Bob, you