Book Lovers

Emily Henry

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valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.
“I’ll have my cocktail napkin and pen waiting for your signature.”“Oh, Charlie,” I say. “How adorable that you think I’d sign a contract with anyone else’s pen.”The corner of his mouth hitches. “You’re right,” he says. “I should’ve guessed.”
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By the third morning, he has my coffee waiting by the register. “What a surprise,” he says. “Here at eight fifty-two, same as yesterday and the day before.”I grab the coffee and ignore the dig. “Dusty’s giving me her answer tonight, by the way,” I say. “A free coffee isn’t going to change anything.”He drops his voice, leans across the counter. “Because you’re holding out hope for a giant check?”“No,” I say. “It can be a normal-sized check, just needs a lot of zeroes.”
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“Don’t look so victorious,” I say. “She’s asked me to be involved every step of the way. Your edits go through me.”“Is that supposed to scare me?”“It should. I’m scary.”He pitches forward over the desk, biceps tightening, mouth in a sultry pout. “Not with those bangs. You’re extremely approachable.”
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On Friday, though, she joins me around lunchtime with veggie sandwiches from Mug + Shot that are about eighty percent kale. With a full mouth, she says, “This sandwich tastes exceptionally unplugged.”“I just got a bite of pure dirt,” I say.“Lucky,” Libby says. “I’m still only getting kale.”
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After we eat, I return to work and Libby turns her focus to a Mhairi McFarlane novel, gasping and laughing so regularly and loudly that, finally, Charlie’s gruff voice calls from the other room, “Could you keep that down? Every time you gasp like that, you almost give me a heart attack.”“Well, your café chairs are giving me hemorrhoids, so I’d say we’re even,” Libby replies.A minute later, Charlie appears and thrusts two velvet throw pillows at us. “Your majesties,” he says, scowl/pouting before returning to his post.Libby’s eyes light up and she leans over to stage-whisper to me. “Did he just bring us butt pillows?”“I believe he did,” I agree.“Count von Lastra has a beating heart,” she says.“I can hear you,” he calls.“The undead have famously heightened senses,” I tell Libby.
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“I haven’t heard anyone say primo since the eighties,” Libby says.“You weren’t alive in the eighties,” I point out.“Precisely.”
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valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.
My phone gives a short, snappy vibration. A text from an unknown number.Why is my mother texting me about how hot you are?This can only be one person.Weird, I write. Think it has anything to do with the fact that I just went to the bookstore in nothing but a patent leather trench coat?Charlie replies with a screenshot of some texts between him and his mom.Cottage guest is very pretty, Sally writes, then, separately, No ring.Charlie replied: Oh? Thinking about leaving Dad?
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valeriyatretyak26 августа 2022 г.
Another message comes in. A page from the Bigfoot Christmas book, featuring a particularly egregious use of decking the halls, as well as a reference to a sex move called the Voracious Yeti, which doesn’t sound remotely anatomically possible.Libby walks into my periphery. “Already done with the Wi-Fi?”“Thoroughly unplugged,” I reply. “Have you ever heard of the Voracious Yeti?”“That a children’s book?”“Sure.”“I’ll have to look it up.”My phone vibrates with another message: I find the Voracious Yeti highly implausible.I find myself smiling, possibly with knives. So disappointing. Really pulls the reader out of an otherwise stunning work of realism.
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“Libby!” I shriek, realization dawning. “Why the hell are you on a dating app?”“I’m not,” she says. “You are.”“I am definitely not,” I say.“I made an account for you,” she says. “It’s a new app. Very marriage minded. I mean, it’s called Marriage of Minds.”“MOM?” I say. “The acronym for the app is MOM? Sometimes I worry about the severe lack of warning bells in your brain, Libby.”
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Normally, I’d arrive to a date early, but we’re operating on Libby’s timeline and thus arrive ten minutes late. Outside the front doors, she stops me by the elbow. “We should go in separately. So he doesn’t know we’re together.”“Right,” I say. “That will make it easier to knock him out and empty his pockets. What should our signal be?”
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