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“I slept with Haley before I knew her name. Impossible to resist her, but not the way I intended to start a relationship,” Knox confessed.

“You’re engaged and have a kid on the way, right?” I asked.

Knox grinned proudly. “Best one-night stand of my life, and even better date the next night. But that didn’t mean it was easy.”

“The question is, do you want to forget Natalie, or are you wanting to get to know her better?” Ramsey asked.

I shook my head, not sure of the answer.

“There’s this dating app,” Daniel said. “Works wonders for finding someone.”

The other men groaned.

“Book Boyfriends Wanted?” I asked.

Daniel nodded, and the others shook their heads.

“What’s wrong?”

Daniel chuckled. “The app has a crazy way of pairing up people that are meant to be. We’ve all fallen victim to it.”

“You all met your wives and girlfriends on there?” I asked them.

Every single one of them nodded.

“I thought you and Melody went to high school together,” I asked Ramsey.

“We did. And we were separated and heading for divorce when we were paired on that app. Got us talking again and brought us back together,” Ramsey said.

“Damn. I didn’t know that.”

Ramsey shrugged. “Not something I advertise that I fucked up my marriage and almost lost the woman I love.”

“Understood,” I said, seeing the pain in his gaze.

“If you want to forget Natalie, sign up for the app. It’ll find you someone else. Maybe someone who doesn’t have you so twisted up,” James said.

I nodded, thinking about ThisIsAwkward. Maybe it was time to ask her to meet. To stop worrying about if she was someone I knew and take the leap.

After all, if she could get me to stop obsessing over Natalie Edwards, it was worth it to risk feeling foolish with another woman.

By the time I got home, I was talking myself out of reaching out to ThisIsAwkward. We’d been talking for a while, and if the guys were right, maybe she was the right one. The one who would put my focus back where it belonged on the campaign and not on the summer camp director who made my life and brain a scrambled mess.

BigCityConvert

How is your week?

Yeah, not a great opening, but it was better than blurting out that I wanted to meet her.

I put my phone away and got ready for bed, hoping I would get a message back and could work meeting in person into the conversation.

I crawled into bed and checked my phone and saw a reply.

ThisIsAwkward

Busy. A lot going on at work. How is yours?

BigCityConvert

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