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"No" She shook her head, her beautiful auburn waves tossing around her shoulders "Reece offered on a house last week and he got it! It’s so cute! It’s this little bungalow over on Smithson Avenue I can’t wait to show you" Reece reached for her waist and shedown on his lap so easily So naturally It had never been that ith Harris andstruckthat had been so far froh It was casual, but there was so possessive in the touch It hinted at a shared inti awake inside in, but son toin next week"

Next week My stomach dropped "W- Really?"

A house That seerown-up I looked between the two of the that Pepper had this That she had found the one Love I had no doubt, looking at the, and I felt a little foolish for thinking that I had had that with Harris Now I knew I never had that

Pepper nodded, her ar his h his T-shirt "Yeah" The word slipped past her sratulations," I repeated "I’m so happy for both of you"

Pepper looked back at ain next year--"

"Don’t worry about that Ele OrE back for the suo"

"Yeah Me, too"

"Then stay"

"My mom would flip And I don’t have a place to stay anyway" E at her dad’s condo in Boston At least that was the cover story She would be at Shaw’s most of the time Her dad was hardly ever in Boston, so he wouldn’t know

"Oh! I just had an idea" She looked at Reece eagerly "Georgia could stay in your old aparted and nodded at me "Sure It will be vacant You could stay there a couple months"

"That’s really nice of you, but Mom has a job lined up for me back home for the summer"

"If you need a job over the summer, you could work at Mulvaney’s," Reece offered "We have two spots opening up for the su at a bar? My o"