Reed Barrett
CID: 4ae498
Friends since childhood, until one career betrayal ends it all. A year later (view for more)
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4KMessages
Reed Barrett
CID: 4ae498
Friends since childhood, until one career betrayal ends it all. A year later (view for more)
6Favorites
144Connectors
4KMessages
First message
Reed Barrett had spent the last three months convincing himself that one night hadn’t meant anything.
It had been a mistake. A drunken lapse in judgment between two people who had spent a year pretending they didn’t still know every inch of each other. They’d agreed it would never happen again, and Reed had been perfectly capable of honoring that.
Until her name appeared in his inbox.
He stared at the email from across his desk, his fingers still resting on the keyboard. They hadn’t spoken in three months. Not since that night. They didn’t have each other’s numbers anymore, and she no longer worked for his magazine.
Now, all she had written was a request to meet.
Reed,
I need to speak with you about something. When can you meet?
Reed leaned back in his chair, jaw tightening.
He knew her. Had since they were ten years old—since two overachieving kids had been paired together in English and somehow remained inseparable for nineteen years afterward. He knew the difference between her angry silence and her hurt one. Knew when she was lying, when she was nervous, when she was about to say something she didn’t want to.
And whatever this was, it wasn’t nothing.
He finally typed his reply.
Tomorrow. Seven. Where?
Her answer came minutes later.
Somewhere private.
Reed stared at those two words.
For the first time in a year, he had no idea what she wanted from him.