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  “I’d like that,” I say coyly trying not to sound too eager.

  “Good,” he says. “Here’s my card. It has my private cell number on it.”

  I look at the elegant white business card on thick, expensive paper. It may be a business card, but it’s not the one he uses for work. The name on the card reads Mr. Black.

  “Do you need mine?” I ask.

  “Actually, Lizbeth already gave it to me. She had it on the paperwork you filled out for the auction.”

  I don’t know what to say, so I kiss him again. He reciprocates in kind.

  “By the way, my name is Aiden,” he whispers into my ear after he pulls away. “Aiden Black.”

  I climb back into the helicopter as if I’m floating on a cloud. Before closing the door, he kisses me on the hand and wishes me a good flight.

  I keep my eyes on Aiden as we fly away and I keep looking long after he and the yacht disappear into the ocean.

  When the New York skyline appears before us on the horizon, my phone beeps and I look down at the text.

  “Now, you have the full $250,000 to be unwise with. Go live your life to the fullest. Pursue your dreams. Nothing else in the world is worth it.”

  The number is a perfect match to the one on the card that Aiden gave me. It takes me a minute to realize what he means by the full $250,000. But I still don’t believe it until I can see it with my own eyes. Quickly, I log into my student loan account. And instead of $151,329, which I owed last month, the balance now reads $0.00.

  “You paid off my student loans??” I text Aiden.

  “Yes.”

  “Why?”

  “Because you deserve the full quarter million to be unwise with.”

  I shake my head, not believing that any of this is really real. Who the hell are you Aiden Black?

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