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    “Do you two know each other?” Elena asks, passing Eve a fresh cup of coffee. “You and the new lawyer, I mean.”

    For a second, Eve imagines telling her everything. Saying, remember that night Niko left last year, and I thought we were really done? Well, I went out, got drunk, met her, and we fuc--

    Eve can’t even make her pretend-self confess it all to Elena, not under the stark fluorescent lighting of their office. She can’t come up with a good lie, either -- a whole two seconds after seeing Villanelle again, her brain is still busy numbly cataloguing her every too-fast breath and rushed heartbeat. “Uh, I’m pretty sure we ran into each other at a conference, once?”

    “Oh.” Elena pauses. “I wish I had her jacket. Her outfit is amazing.”

    Eve’s smile would probably be a little less fake if she could entirely convince herself that she’s also thinking about Villanelle’s clothes, and not what’s underneath them.

    But she and Niko are trying, right? So she smiles harder.

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    A breakup. A hookup.

    For a year, Eve does her best to forget it all.

    Then chance brings a new hire to the office, and everything gets a lot more complicated.

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    28 Jun 2019