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This ends now. You had no right to change the date without consulting me first.”
“Enough with the dramatics. I get it. You don’t want to marry me in June. We’ll move it. Point made,” she snapped at me.
“No, you don’t get it! I don’t want to marry you. Not in June. Not in July. Not two years from now. Not anytime.” I felt like I was reading from the Dr. Seuss book Laney had quoted to the little girl at Jughead’s Diner. Not in June, not on the moon, not in socks, not in a box. Never, never! “I’m done, Sloane.”
There was a pause. Who was being dramatic now? “You can’t do this to me!”
“Me, me, me!” I seethed. “Just because marriage starts with an m and ends with an e , it’s not all about you!”
“Well, the word mistake does, too, but you can’t blame me for the one you’re making, mister. Just wait until my father—”
My cab careened past Ruel’s and the other cars idling along the curb for departures and swung into the first free space. I had caught up with Laney. I breathed a sigh of relief. “Have a nice life, Sloane.
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