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And clie Rover was one of my favorite people on the planet, Simon Parker Dark hair, chiseled jaw, he was the kind of handsoreed on No enerally agreed upon kind of good looks And char, and always had been But even though we had only ever been good friends, I could still appreciate a gorgeous guy And speaking of gorgeous, his girlfriend was tall and sliirl you wanted to dislike on sight, but then she opened her irl, she could hold her oith Handso most women couldn’t do Points for that in my book

"Hey, Parker"

"Hey, Franklin," he said, catchingI patted his backside and winked at Caroline over his shoulder I saw Milance, and Caroline just waved her off More points She knew she had nothing to worry about

"Quite the spread you’ve got here, Viv," he said, settingof spread, what’s up, ho his stomach He smoothed his T-shirt over his still very flat tuirl She bakes me pie All the time" He winked at Caroline, and she blushed

"I hear you, there’s a pizza in this town that’s as good as Tony’s back ho upmy still-flat tureat I brought reat trails near here Have you had a chance to check any of them out?"

"Nah, don’t have my bike out here yet, I need to--Christ, where arearound as Simon and I were halfway up the steps Caroline, Ryan, and Mi up at our retreat toward the house I ran back down the steps, reaching out to hug Caroline

"Girl, I’m a terrible host How the hell are you?"

"Great, now that I’ to see this house! And of course, you know, you too" She sht up to Simon

"And youboth their hands Ryan started to say so out of her skin

"I heard a rumor that when you inherited this house, it was filled with all kinds of things! Things and stuff and very unorganized, is that right?" she asked, dancing from one foot to the other

"Uotten some of the bedrooms upstairs started but there’s still junk everywhere and--"

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" she chanted, pu up the steps, alet inside the house