Page 22 of The Breakup Broker

Ivy

Maybe this is your chance.

Me

My chance for what? More humiliation?

Maddy

Your chance for closure. Real closure is not the kind you give other people.

Me

I don’t need closure. I need professional distance.

Ivy

Honey, you were never getting professional distance from Henry Kingston.

Maddy

Maybe it’s time to take your own advice. Clean breaks, remember?

Me

This feels more like reopening an old wound.

Ivy

Or maybe healing it properly this time.

I stared at his note again, the precise strokes of his handwriting as familiar as my own. CommonGrounds. A place that had seen so many beginnings and endings, including ours.

Me

He left a note. Wants to meet at 9.

Maddy

Are you going?

Me

Of course not. I have clients.

Ivy

Is that true, or are you hiding?

Me

Since when have you questioned my schedule?

Maddy

Since you had an emotional breakdown about him yesterday.

Me

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