Page 72 of Until You

“Yep.”

“Older or younger?”

“Younger.”

“Too bad,” she whispered. “I was going to tell you some dirty, dirty things, but it doesn’t seem appropriate when you’re next to a teenager.” She laughed again. “Thanks, Tyler.” Then she hung up.

He must have worn a bewildered expression, because Eric was grinning ear to ear. “I didn’t think you had a girlfriend.”

“I don’t.”

“Was that the woman you were obsessed with at the game?”

“I wasn’t obsessed.”

“Okay, the woman you stared at every two minutes.”

Tyler grunted and shifted to relieve the pressure of his erection in his jeans. “That was Lanie.”

“Lanie…” Eric’s tone sounded suggestive.

Tyler turned on a dime. “You will say her name with respect.”

His brother’s eyes widened. “Wow. You really like her.”

He could deny it, but he had to deny it with everyone else—he didn’t want to deny it with Eric, too. “Yeah. I do.”

“But she’s leaving in a month?”

“Yeah.” He sucked in a breath and leaned his elbow on the table. “Her job moves her around every few months.”

“That sucks. What does she do?”

“She’s a time management consultant for retail stores.”

“Wow,” Eric said taking a bite of his chicken tender. “How does that work?”

“I’m not sure. She doesn’t talk about it much.”

“Where is she going that she doesn’t want you to go?” Tyler shot him a surprised look, and he grinned. “I could hear your side of the conversation, you know.”

Might as well tell him everything…within reason. “I’m a groomsman in my friends’ wedding—Britt and Randy. One of the bridesmaids is Britt’s cousin.”

“Lanie.”

“Yeah.”

“She doesn’t want Britt to know about us because Britt tends to meddle.” When Eric made a face, he added, “She means well, but Lanie doesn’t want her to meddle with us. So she wants to keep it a secret. From everyone.”

“Is she embarrassed by you?”

That caught him off guard. “No. I don’t think so.” He’d dwell on that later. “But I suspect Britt might not meddle the way Lanie thinks. I think instead of trying to keep us together, she’d try to split us apart.”

“I thought Britt was your friend.”

“She is, but she knows my…past.” If Britt wanted Lanie to stay, setting her up with Tyler would be the last thing she’d do.

“You mean that you’ve slept around with a lot of women?”

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