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“Wyatt… I…”

“Brooke. Give me your address.”

She hesitates, then says, “I don’t know if I should.”

“You definitely should,” I say firmly.

“I like you,” she says. “A lot. I’ve been thinking about you ever since the cabin, too. But I likeallof you. I don’t think I can date just one of you.”

I feel like all of the air has been sucked out of my lungs.

But my heart is still hammering.

We can make this work.

I think wehave tomake this work.

“That’s not a deal breaker for me,” I tell her.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, I will do whatever you want. Whatever makes you happy. If you want to date all of us, we can make that work.”

She’s quiet. There’s no sound from her end of the phone.

“Brooke,” I say firmly, but softly. “We’re going to make this work. This isn’t over.”

Finally she says, “Okay.”

“Okay.” I pause, then say, “Bye, Brooke. We’ll talk soon.”

“Bye, Wyatt.”

We hang up, but for the first time in two weeks, I’mhappy. Hopeful.

I don’t know how exactly I’m going to solve this, but I am going to see this girl again.

I do know who I need to help me solve it, though.

I send a text to my two best friends.

We need to talk. About Brooke. ASAP.

Jackson responds first.

Yeah, we do. In person.

Then Luke texts right on his heels.

Agreed.

CHAPTER 26

Luke

Eyeing Wyatt,I ask, “She toldyouto stop texting her too? Damn. I had no fucking clue. I thought for sure she’d want to see you again.”

Though now that I think about it, Wyatt’s been moping around the firehouse for the last two weeks. I thought he was just giving me space, and I was pretty damn wrapped up in my own complicated emotions. Too busy moping in my own right to notice he was not his usual upbeat self.

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