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“Fine. Chloe, I need to ask you a favor and seeing as I have—”

“Yeah, just cut to it Ace. We both know I already owe you,” I interrupted him.

“Well, could you be my date for the dinner at the festival?”

“Why?” I swallowed, uneasy. “I don’t really see you in that—”

“Again big notingyourself, Chloe.” Ace smirked. “I just want you to come to make this other really hot girl jealous.”

“This wouldn’t be the girl from the apartment across from us would it?” Dan asked.

“Could be,” Ace said smugly. “She won’t give me the time of day.”

“So you rubbing in her face you are with someone else would help this fact?” I frowned, thinking, if anything, it would just make the situation worse.

“Are you smart when it comes to anything, Chloe?” Ace looked at me with a serious expression, like he was talking to a two-year-old. “She is a player, like me. So she wants what she can’t have.”

“So if she thinks you are unattainable, she’ll want you?” I shook my head. “Is that how your mind works when it comes to females?”

“Chloe, you owe me. So you have to do it.” Alec crossed his arms.

“She can’t,” Dan said before I could respond. “She is already going with me.”

“Well, you can have her when we get back,” Alec snapped at him. “Gee, don’t be selfish, little brother.”

“I’m not little,” Dan snapped.

“You are to me,” Alec replied smugly.

“Fine. I’ll do it. But if I end up getting slapped by this chick or if she does anything to me, I promise you, Ace, it will end badly.” I narrowed my eyes to prove my point.

“Don’t worry. Your bull terrier will come to your rescue if things turn sour. Won’t you, Danny boy?” Alec teased before turning around to walk back to wherever he came from in the first place.

I looked at Dan and saw the anger in his eyes. I don’t think he really wanted to spend the evening watching me with his brother. But on the plus side, when he got home, if it worked, Alec would be nowhere in sight.

I brushed my lips across Dan’s. “If everything works out right, we could have the house to ourselves.”

“You are forgetting about the parents?” Dan said while pulling me closer to him.

I leaned down to his ear. “Who said we would be staying at the festival all night?”

I let out a little squeal as Dan flipped us over in a hurry and my back sank into the warm sand.

“You, Chloe, are the devil.” His hot breath swirled around my face.

I grinned up at him and nodded my head. As soon as Alec was settled with his woman, Dan and I would be out of there and we could have time alone together as planned.