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  1. The Meeting Point
  2. Olivia Lara
  3. Contents
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. Twelve
  16. Thirteen
  17. A YEAR LATER
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. June 2
  21. Sixteen
  22. Seventeen
  23. Eighteen
  24. Nineteen
  25. Twenty
  26. Twenty-One
  27. Twenty-Two
  28. Twenty-Three
  29. June 3
  30. Twenty-Four
  31. Twenty-Five
  32. June 4
  33. Twenty-Six
  34. Twenty-Seven
  35. Twenty-Eight
  36. Help Wanted: Seasonal employment, June–August
  37. Twenty-Nine
  38. Thirty
  39. Thirty-One
  40. June 5
  41. Thirty-Two
  42. Thirty-Three
  43. June 6
  44. Thirty-Four
  45. Thirty-Five
  46. June 7
  47. Thirty-Six
  48. Thirty-Seven
  49. Thirty-Eight
  50. Thirty-Nine
  51. June 8
  52. Forty
  53. Forty-One
  54. June 9
  55. Forty-Two
  56. Forty-Three
  57. Forty-Four
  58. Forty-Five
  59. Forty-Six
  60. Forty-Seven
  61. Forty-Eight
  62. Forty-Nine
  63. Fifty
  64. Fifty-One
  65. June After Midnight: By Ethan Delphy
  66. Chapter 15
  67. Fifty-Two
  68. June After Midnight
  69. Chapter 20
  70. Fifty-Three
  71. June After Midnight
  72. Chapter 21
  73. June After Midnight
  74. Chapter 22
  75. Fifty-Four
  76. June After Midnight
  77. Chapter 28
  78. Fifty-Five
  79. June After Midnight
  80. Chapter 29
  81. June After Midnight
  82. Chapter 30
  83. Fifty-Six
  84. Fifty-Seven
  85. June 11
  86. Fifty-Eight
  87. Fifty-Nine
  88. Sixty
  89. Sixty-One
  90. Sixty-Two
  91. June 12
  92. Sixty-Three
  93. Sixty-Four
  94. Sixty-Five
  95. June 13
  96. Sixty-Six
  97. Sixty-Seven
  98. Sixty-Eight
  99. Sixty-Nine
  100. June 14
  101. Seventy
  102. Seventy-One
  103. Seventy-Two
  104. Seventy-Three
  105. Seventy-Four
  106. June 15
  107. Seventy-Five
  108. Seventy-Six
  109. Seventy-Seven
  110. Seventy-Eight
  111. Seventy-Nine
  112. Eighty
  113. Eighty-One
  114. June 16
  115. Eighty-Two
  116. Eighty-Three
  117. Eighty-Four
  118. Eighty-Five
  119. June After Midnight
  120. Chapter 28 (Draft 1 Version)
  121. Eighty-Six
  122. Eighty-Seven
  123. Eighty-Eight
  124. Acknowledgments
  125. About the Author
  126. Also by Olivia Lara

Celine just looks at me and smiles but doesn’t say a word.

“Do you mind giving me his phone number? I want to text him and thank him.”

“Sure,” she says.

It’s not true. I mean, it is, in a way. I want to thank him, because I’m not a barbarian, but I also want to ask him about Aaron. Just because he’s not here, it doesn’t mean my plans change.

Ethan, thank you for the gift. You shouldn’t have.

I hit send and wait. I hope he answers. He does, five minutes later.

You’re welcome. I hope you will write many amazing stories in it. Maybe your next novel.

I wish we could’ve talked about this face to face, but since you’ll be away for a while, I was wondering if you have news about Max. I also wanted to see if I’m right about this: Is Max’s name Aaron?

Five minutes. Ten. Twenty. I haven’t heard from him yet. He didn’t confirm it’s Aaron but he didn’t deny it either. And my thoughts go back to today. The whole thing. How Ethan left, what happened in San Francisco, our conversation. A few minutes later I text him again.

I hope you didn’t leave your house because of me. If anyone should go, it’s me.

Don’t read too much into this. Any of it. My departure has nothing to do with you. I’m not the runaway type, even when things get complicated. Just need to take care of some stuff.

That felt like a slap on the face. Way to go, Maya, assuming the world revolves around you. He basically put me in my place. Ouch!

I tell Celine I’m tired and I’ll head straight to bed, then say good night and go to my room where the first thing I do is to tear open the envelope and take out the book.

The cover is amazing! Eerie almost. Two silhouettes, a man and a woman, with their backs to each other and holding their phones.

It’s us. Oh, my heart!

I open the book, breeze through the chapters Alisa said were about his life before that day, our day, and get to that morning.

June After Midnight: By Ethan Delphy

Chapter 15

I snicker when she says what she’s wearing. I thought I was the only one still into Guns N’ Roses.

I don’t like Lift pool. There are too many stops, and they all cram in like sardines, but it’s the most popular option, it seems. It was after I dropped off the third person at Embarcadero in San Francisco, and I was getting ready for the final stop of the trip, that I started hearing that nagging sound, like a sonar. On and on and on. I just assumed it was the client’s phone.

“Is that your phone?” the guy in the back asked, sounding annoyed, and that’s when I realized it wasn’t his. It wasn’t mine either, because mine was on the dashboard. The ringing stopped. But just as he got out, it started again, so I pulled to the side of the road and following the sound, I eventually found it in between the back seat and the door.