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"Are you sure you have the directions down, Mr Reynolds?" Reed asked as he held the car door open for Whitley’s ot this Now, be sure to take care of things while they are gone"

"I will," Reed and I both said at the salanced at each other, and I rolledand puppy-sitting for Layton and Whitley while they were on their three-week honeymoon I had no idea what in the hell the plant pussy was still doing here

I thought back to last night when Reed had told me he wanted tored I looked over at hi at me I put ined his breath against my neck

Shit! Stop it, Courtney!

"Court?" Stacey said as she touched my arm

I jumped and quickly snapped out of my daydreaetting sick? You look flush" She put her hand up to hed "I’lanced over toward Reed, and he was giving me a concerned look

"Well, take a nap, okay? You busted your ass yesterday and last night Just think, at least you don’t have to clean up since Layton hired someone to come in and take care of it," she said with a smile

I smiled as Reed walked up and stood next tofrom his body

Shit Why didn’t I just tell hi to ," Stacey said with a laugh

I let out a fake laugh "Sorry I guess I’ Have a safe trip back, and don’t stay away for so long, okay? Oh! And think about ood-bye kiss on the cheek, my hands balled up into fists before I quickly shook thele

I rolled my eyes at her lame attempt to sound country as I shut her door Reed and I stood there and watched theht, Reed and I both turned and faced each other

"You can leave noe said at the saain

"What?" I yelled "No, you’re not I’"

Reed smiled and shook his head "U and…uoofy that had sounded

I tried so hard not to laugh, and I had to bite ? Really? Really, Reed?" I turned andto figure out what Layton and Whitley had done They had arranged this whole thing

"Well, I’ve got this covered, so you can head on houe with me for once, and he’d just leave I needed to be alone for a bit, so I could try to figure out hoas going to kill Mitch while plotting e on that bitch, Karen

"Uh…sorry, Court, but I took three weeks of vacation, and I really don’t think you can help Mitch take care of shit around the ranch"

I threw open the door before h the house and into the kitchen "Please, how hard can it be? I think I’ve got this covered Really, you can leave the…cow-sitting to ave me a smirk and turned to pour hi, and I pulled it out of my back pocket