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Just enough.
“You’re exactly what I expected,” he says.
“Am I?”
He studies me for a moment.
Then he nods slowly.
“Yes.”
Silence stretches between us.
I lean casually against the wall.
“So,” I say.
“You pull people aside in hallways often?”
“Only the interesting ones.”
“Flattered.”
He chuckles softly.
Then his eyes sharpen.
“We’ve been waiting for you, Boone.”
There it is.
No hesitation.
No uncertainty.
Just certainty.
“Have you,” I say.
“For a while now.”
I tilt my head slightly.
“Funny thing about that.”
“What’s that?”
“I don’t remember applying.”
Eli’s smile widens.
“You didn’t.”
He steps a little closer.
“But men like you always end up here eventually.”
“And men like me are what, exactly?”
