Page 11 of Blind Date with a #HOCKEYBOY (Love Canyon: Blind Date with a #BOOKBOYFRIEND #2)

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Three weeks later…

“ S o, how’s the situationship going?” Indie asked as she lugged a box of books from the back of Book Boyfriends & Lattes.

“Let me guess, endless orgasms and all the culinary delights you can, um eat?” Her brows waggled suggestively.

“Help me unpack these until I have to pick up the little monster man.”

“I swear, the man’s stamina is endless, and I…” my voice trailed off. Three weeks, countless orgasms, a new dream job, and…my eye welled up.

Indie set the box down, concerned etched all over her face. “Are you catching feelings?”

I shook my head, trying not to cry, then nodding. “Oh God, I am. I’ve know him for, what, two months?”

“Technically,” Indie said las she lead me to one of the couches, “You’ve know him for six. Months, but who’s counting?”

“But he doesn’t know that, and we agreed no feelings. Just benefits. I’m beyond benefits, Indie. Like, way beyond. What if he kicks me out?”

She snorted. “Yeah cause that’s Noah.”

I rolled my eyes. “You know what I mean. Oh, God, and now we work together. I’ve fucked all this up haven’t I?”

“No,” she said, “You haven’t. Not even close. Noah’s a big boy. And you’re both consenting adults.”

“And I’ve been lying to him this entire time.”

She shook her head. I glared at her, and she grimaced. “Okay. Maybe. But it’s not like you said, hey we never knew each other and I am so not the girl you kissed and told everyone you were searching for ever since.”

My head shot up. “Wait, what?”

Indie sat up, eyeing me. “Wait, he hasn’t told you about how he was searching for the girl he kissed that night? Like had the team pull all the surveillance from that night and even tried to get his brother to find you?”

I shook my head.

“Listen, I only know because Eden thought it was so romantic and spooky, because she loves that shit, but the next day and for like two months, he tried to find, well, you. Even told her it was fate. Obsession level. Then when he came back from Love Canyon, she said he stopped mentioning…it…” her voice trailed off.

“You don’t think-”

“That the two of you are keeping the same secret?”

My hand flew to my mouth. “Oh, God. What if we are? And why didn’t he say anything?”

Indie stood and gave me a pointed look as I sat there, dumbfounded. “Um, why didn’t you ? Do you honestly think that man didn’t know it was you all along? And maybe he’s just giving you the time to figure it out?”

I stood. “I have to tell him. What time does their flight land?”

“Trav is at swim with the girls for another hour, then we’re picking up Theo around six. Wait, where are you going?”

I grinned as I wiped the tears. “To play dress up and hope I’m not wrong. Or, that you’re not wrong! Love you, bye!”

“I’m never wrong,” she called after me.