Page 94 of Fly with Me

“You think we were convincing?” Stella said, sucking on her bottom lip.

“I’d always be up for more practice before the next event if you think we need it.” Olive kept her tone light, as if she were kidding, as she tucked a strand of Stella’s hair back behind her ear.

Stella laughed, and it was back to her normal laugh, not the one she used when she was worried about being too loud or too unprofessional. “So when should I schedule your pop quiz?”

Okay, this was venturing into an incredibly sexy tutor role-play fantasy, and Olive was just about at her limit for turn-ons tonight. Every potential reply occurring to Olive involved the word cramming, which just seemed inappropriate. Olive needed to get home before she said something stupid.

After a check on the road to see if the cab was pulling up yet, Olive pulled Stella into her arms. “Thank you for coming out tonight.”

“I’m glad I got back in time.” Stella’s cheeks were pink, because of either the wind or a blush. “Derek and Joni are great. Glad I could hang out with them.”

Olive nodded. “Me too.”

The lack of a kiss seemed to hum between them. But the cab pulled up in front of them. With another small wave, Stella got into the cab. After watching the cab’s taillights disappear down the road, Olive went back toward the bar door, but movement caught her eye from the shadowy part of the parking lot. Beachy blond waves.

Lindsay gave her a broad, ominous grin as she hopped into her car.

The bar door opened. Derek came out and stood beside her.

“What are you looking at?” he asked.

“Trouble.”

Chapter 33

OLIVE

Mint chocolate chip is disgusting.

STELLA

False.

STELLA

It’s not fair for you to tease me about my answers when I haven’t seen yours.

Olive sent a photo of the first and second pages of her filled-out questionnaire from where it was perched on her lap next to Gus’s enormous head. She’d worked most of the last week since the happy hour, and every day she had been waiting for another confrontation with Lindsay. Had Lindsay heard them talking? What was that terrifying smile about?

STELLA

Birthday cake is not a real ice cream flavor.

OLIVE

It absolutely is, and BONUS doesn’t taste like toothpaste.

STELLA

And then you put that your cake flavor is champagne which is not a cake flavor.

OLIVE

Champagne cake is amazeballs.

OLIVE

Do you still want to fake date me after I used the word amazeballs?

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