Chapter 40

Loefel sips champagne and pushes her croissant with her neon-pink artificial nails. "Unknown... Isn't that weird? The idea that phone love is possible."

"I hate to sound cliché, but until this night, everything seemed like destiny, Yas."

"Fine, fine," she replies, giving up. "How come? Idiot. Exactly. Find Perfect. You adored him by phone and in person."

"What gives? It seems so simple. Remember? He'd planned everything."

"Overreact. I know it stings to be lied to—it would me too—but you still love the same person. Paul tried to come closer to you after you slept with him, but you drew away."

"Unknown... It's incorrect. I said/did intimate stuff over the phone."

Loefel tells Arcadia, "Listen." "I've known Paul Caspar longer. Before meeting you, he knew how to rip sh*t apart."

I tell Loefel, "Yeah, I know." "I could make him happy."

Loefel: "You did the minute he met you."

I'm stunned. I lean toward her.

"Yas, what's up?" Why?