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“I, um…well…uh…”

Wow. He’d had a whole week to come up with an answer and that was all he could manage.

Aaron walked over and placed a hand on his shoulder. “Yeah. That’s what I thought. Go to the pub, Landon. Kick back a few pints with Finn and Sunnie. Hiding from women is one thing, but hiding from your friends is another. Let Sunnie show you how it’s done. I figure the two of you are tied together by what’s happened. You need to be around someone who gets what you’re going through, and right now, that’s her.”

Was Aaron talking about the video or confusion over the kiss?

Then he saw the truth of Aaron’s observation. He’d spent a week feeling like a bug under a microscope. He was miserable with the constant scrutiny. Sunnie had obviously found a way to make it fun.

Like she did everything.

Suddenly he understood why his mood had been getting progressively blacker with each passing day. He missed Sunnie.

And that’s when the answer came to him.

Sunnie had a fun-loving, larger-than-life personality. He needed her silly perspective on all of this to get him through. But more than that…he needed to erase the wordsinglefrom hot cop.

Maybe forever.

The problem was Sunnie wouldn’t come around easily. So he’d have to trick her into it.

And he had the perfect plan.

Sunnie was about to pay him back for saving her from the mugger by going out with him. Having Sunnie pose as his girlfriend would hopefully get the hot-cop groupies off his back. But more than that, it would show Sunnie something that the two of them should have recognized all along.

They belonged together.

Life was about to get a lot more fun.

CHAPTEREIGHT

Sunnie satin a booth at Pat’s Pub with a couple of her nursing friends, enjoying a Friday night happy hour, complete with big-ass margaritas. Her weekend off had just gotten extended to a week, thanks to that damn video. She intended to kick it off in style.

She glanced around the pub, looking for Landon. It had become a bad habit of hers, ever since the mugging and that kiss. Probably because he hadn’t darkened her door once in the past two weeks. The guy was a regular fixture in her life, stopping by the Collins Dorm every couple of nights. This was the longest he’d stayed away.

And it was fucking with her head.

Giving her too much time to think.

Sunnie wasprettysure when shedidsee him, everything between them would be cool. Same as always.

Maybe.

Shit. Hopefully.

It was the damn kisses she was fixated on. Sunnie hadn’t watched the video since seeing it on Yvonne’s phone in the kitchen. She’d pulled out her laptop at least a hundred times, intent on doing what Pop Pop suggested.

Watch it again.

Look at Landon’s face.

She couldn’t make herself do it, too afraid of what she’d see.

“Sunshine?”

Wow. It was as if she’d thought his name and summoned him. Somehow he’d come into the bar and walked right up to her table without her noticing.

“Hey, Landon,” Yvonne said, hip bumping him as she passed with a tray of appetizers for the table next to them. “Long time, no see.”

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