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Me:So you want Holly to date your brother?

Erin:They’re very much alike. If anyone could get him to fall in love and settle down, it would be Holly.

Ouch.

Me:Maybe he’ll fall in love with his new girlfriend instead.

I tried to convince myself that him falling in love with Holly (or any other woman) would never happen, especially after what he’d told me last night about his ex-girlfriends. Despite what Erin was hoping for, Trent wasn’t looking to settle down.

Maybe I could get that reminder tattooed on my arm.

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Trent

It’sfunny how you can stare at a computer screen for five minutes and not really see it. The numbers are there, but are nothing but a blur.

What I did see (not so shockingly) was the image in my head of Kelsey touching herself last night after I’d told her to—and fuck, that had been hotter than all hell.

And because of that—and because of the hot sex we’d experienced twice last night and then again this morning—I was having a shitty time focusing on my work.

I entered the numbers into my calculator, pressed the equal sign, and groaned.

69.696969

Yes, the financial gods were conspiring against me.

My cell phone pinged and I rushed to check if it was from Kelsey.

But it wasn’t from her. It was from Erin.So is it true?

Is what true?

That you have a girlfriend?

Good question. I had no idea what to call this thing between Kelsey and me, but since we were keeping it a secret, it didn’t matter what we were calling it.

What did matter though was that Holly believed I had one.

Me:Yes.

Erin:Who is she?

Me:You don’t know her.

Erin:So when do I get to meet her?

Me:When the time is right. And you constantly bugging me about it won’t speed things up.

My phone pinged again. Liam.Fuck.

Guilt kicked me in the nuts for thinking that. This was the first time in the past few weeks that my best friend had been able to contact me, and it wasn’t as if he knew what was going on between his sister and me.

The tension that had been knotted in my muscles since he’d last contacted me slightly loosened its hold. It would only fully go away once Liam was safely back in the States.

Liam:Still alive. How’s my sister?

Me:She’s fine and keeping out of trouble.Unless he considered her screwing his best friend trouble, then she was getting into tons of that.