Page 18 of Her Football Star Ex

“She said she had a date for Derek’s wedding, but…” I shook my head. “I didn’t think she’d be on a dating app.”

An app where she probably had all sorts of guys swiping right if Cole’s reaction was anything to go by.

“Can I see what her profile says?” I held my hand out for his phone.

He handed it to me, but before I could bring up the rest of her profile, Jaxon suddenly yelled, “Mommy!” from beside me.

And before I knew what was happening, Jaxon leaned closer and swiped a greasy pizza finger across the screen like he thought it would show more photos of his mom.

“No!” I said too late.

And in the next instant, a message popped up on the screen saying,You have a match!

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“Is there a way to undo that?”I showed Cole the screen, my heart racing in my chest over the fact that one of my closest buddies had just matched with Emerson.

Over the fact that she had seen something in his profile that had made her swipe right in the first place.

Did she swipe right on lots of guys?

Or did she just like Cole's profile because he was muscular and brown and caught huge fish?

She had always loved our beach vacations. Was she looking for someone new to explore the beaches of the world with?

“Wait.” Cole's brown eyes went wide after he got a better look at his phone, his bushy eyebrows raising like he hadn’t noticed what Jaxon had done until now. “Did Jaxon just match me with your ex-wife?”

I nodded, panic rising in me. “I think he was trying to swipe through more photos of her like he does in my photo app.”

Cole took his phone back from me and seemed to study the image that had Emerson’s face next to the one of him on his boat and the button beneath that asked if he wanted to message her.

“You know what this means, right?” He turned his gaze on me.

“That I need to be more careful with your phone?” I asked, unsure what he was trying to say.

He shook his head, and I was surprised to see a slow smile replace the look of shock on his face before. “It means that Emerson thinks I look hot.”

I shoved his shoulder. “She can’t even see your face in those photos.”

He shrugged like it didn’t matter. “Well, she obviously likes what she can see.” He held up his arm and flexed. “And guns like these are exactly what she’s looking for in a guy.”

“Whatever,” I said. “It’s probably more like she was looking at your photo with Jaxon beside her and he wanted to see another photo of the shark.”

Cole leaned over the counter, watching Jaxon who was currently dipping his pizza in the glass of milk I’d gotten him.

“Is that true, Jaxon? Have you seen this photo of me before?”

Jaxon looked up from the mess he was making and his blond eyebrows knitted together as he studied the tiny photo. “A shark!”

Cole nodded. “Yes, buddy, it’s a cool shark.”

“Have you seen this photo of Cole and his shark before?” I asked, hoping that somehow my guess had been correct and that this whole matching thing was just my son’s doing.

But Jaxon shook his head and said, “No. Do you still have the shark?”

Cole shook his head. “No. Sorry, buddy.”

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