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“Hi,” he said. “Not with a patient?”

“I was going to check on one and saw your message. It made me laugh. I need to know the details.”

He smiled over that. “Not much to say other than Carolyn sent her husband here to do her bidding. You could tell right away he wasn’t so happy about it and would not bend over backward. He guessed we might have already reached out to each other ourselves.”

She laughed on the other line. “Did you verify it?”

“I didn’t have a chance. I got a call for work and had to take it. Garrett left. What’s our play here?”

“It took them a week to come in, I say we see how long it takes for me to be contacted next. Then we’ll figure it out. Are we horrible for doing this?”

“Nope,” he said. “I didn’t realize how much fun it actually was when you are yanking other people around.”

“It’s not a bad thing,” she said, laughing. “Is it?”

“I’m not looking at it that way,” he said. “I figured they’d get a kick out of it. They’ll take the credit for it regardless, but we know the truth.”

“Yes,” she said. “The truth is if Carolyn didn’t push you, I’d still be waiting for you to ask me.”

His jaw dropped. “You could have asked me,” he said playfully.

“Good girls don’t do those things,” she said smartly.

“Yeah, well, we know you’re not always so innocent, are you?”

There was silence to that statement, then laughter. “That’s not very nice,” she said sweetly.

“I think you like me not being nice right now,” he said. “Bye, Dillion.”

He hung up before she could dispute it.

Maybe it felt good not being so nice himself too.

Not in a bad way.

Playful for sure, but it felt more like sensual dancing.

All he could hope for was their moves finally got into sync soon.

18

BE THAT MAN

“What are your plans tonight?” Dillion’s mother asked her while Gianna was upstairs in her room gathering all the stuffed animals she wanted to bring for their sleepover.

She wasn’t sure she wanted to say, but it wasn’t as if her parents wouldn’t know if they went for a drive. They’d see Jax’s SUV in her driveway.

“I’m cooking dinner for him,” she said. “He’ll be here in about an hour.”

“Dinner, huh?”

Her face flushed. “Stop. Don’t embarrass me. I’m already nervous enough.”

Her mother moved over and hugged her. “Don’t be nervous. I told you that you seem so happy. Just go with that.”

“Mom, you know I haven’t been with anyone since Alec.”

“That’s your fault. No one was stopping you from going out on a date.”