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Something in the Orange - Zach Bryan

“Why shouldn’t you get the woman you want, if you want her that is…?”

The words travel over to me as I step down the stairs.

That’s Cody talking.

“She doesn’t want me.”

Who doesn’t?

“You’re blind,” Cody scoffs. “Of course she does.”

“I’m not blind. She barely talks to me. We only just started eating together for breakfast. And I’m not talking about sex. I’m talking this. Life.Here.”

That’s when my heart stops beating double-time.

They’re discussingme.

I know that eavesdroppers never hear good of themselves, but I take a seat on the step anyway and crane my neck to hear as much as I can.

Especially as Cody was very quick to believe me when I denied that I set fire to the stables. Those all-seeing eyes of his merely shifted from alert to lazy as he schmoozed me into making a sandwich for him.

“Like I said. She needs a charm offensive.”

I have to hide my snort.

If Colt got any more charming, my panties would combust.

“What kind of charm offensive, though?” Colt inquires.

“Going riding together is a good way to start. Which horse are you giving her?”

“Jasmine.”

Cody whistles. “Man, she’ll look pretty as a picture on her.”

“Right? Like a faerie queen.”

He sounds…dreamy.

Not like dreamy hot. Butdreamy,as if he’s lost to his imaginings.

Cody grumbles, “You and your fantasy books.”

“Screw you. Like you didn’t devour Tolkien too.”

My lips twitch as Cody retorts, “Yeah, thanks to you. You’re the one who read them to me and Cole before bed. But I’m not putting my Arwen on a horse, am I? Bet the next thing you do is give her a quiver of arrows and a bow!”

“Arwen was half-elven. You need to read the trilogy again?—”

“Why are we eavesdropping on my brothers?”

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