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“It’s not exactly an ideal conversation starter. We’re just starting to get along. I don’t want to freak her out by confessing all these feelings I have for her. Feelings I’ve probably had since we were kids.”

Xander decides to join in on the fun. “She deserves to know how you feel. You don’t know how she’s going to respond. She could reciprocate those feelings.”

“Or I make a complete ass out of myself and she doesn’t feel the same way.”

“When the time is right, you should tell her how you feel. What have you got to lose?” Xander gives me a dose of inspirational romantic advice.

He hasn’t been in a long-term relationship before, but he has always been a hopeful romantic. Yes, I said hopeful and not hopeless.

What do I have to lose?

She’s what I could lose.

I’ve lost Dani once.

I’m not losing her again.

Grayson observes me and Xander talking until he finally decides to contribute to our conversation.

He doesn’t say anything.

Are you fucking kidding me?

A breathy laugh escapes from my mouth. “You have nothing to say there, Romeo?”

He replies to me almost immediately, his dark brown eyes meeting my blue eyes. “Xander took the words right out of my mouth.”

“Well, that was constructive,” Xander says, awkwardly smiling at Grayson and me.

No shit, Sherlock.

It’s so much more than an attraction.

I’m in love with Dani Solomon and I have no idea how I’m going to tell her.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

dani

The morning sun is shining directly into my eyes.

I’m sitting at my desk and trying to get my brain into writing mode. It still doesn’t want to work with me.

Why won’t you work with me?

“Ugh!” I grunt loudly.

SAGE

ME

hey, i think it’s long overdue for me to update you on what’s been going on

SAGE

oh, really? how thoughtful of you. and i thought you forgot i existed

ME

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