Chapter 0431

“Maybe we should try a different game,” Julian said. “Something easier.”

“Like what?” I asked.

“Go fish,” he said, and we both laughed. A game for children might have been more fitting, honestly. At least then, I might have stood a chance. I had no proof but I had a feeling, just knowing Julian, that he had been counting cards at poker.

As he started to deal for our competitive game of go fish, I said to him, “See

this is how it should be.”

He side–eyed me. “How do you mean?”

“Easy. Being with the person meant for you should be easy, just like this. Fun and silly. Full of more laughter than heartache.”

deck. I checked my cards.

fish too as badly as poker. Julian would never let me

cards?”

“I’m not sure.” He placed down two

cards. It seemed unfair that he had no idea if the person he thought was his true love even liked it.

The right person for him would try to learn his favorite games, just because he liked them. She would want to try just

we spent together, the more I wasn’t sure if any of my lessons

his feelings for Bridget, like he’d harbored them so long, he had no

flowers and the fields before he spotted me and Julian at our small two person table. We were both leaning over the

had been making efforts to touch his arm or his hand, to lean into him. Even now, my leg pressed against his under the table from knee to ankle.

plucked a card from the pile, then dropped three three’s. “He looks rather annoyed

than I meant. “Today isn’t about him.”

about us?”

to me to Save Julian from his unrequited romance. Maybe it was because we had gotten to be such good friends. Maybe it was because, unlike me and my feelings for Nicholas, Julian had a chance to be free of his love and live his

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