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“I can handle your brothers”

“I don’t want you to get pulled into playing their fighting ga, so itto try and stop this date”

He saw her cheeks were heating “You want to go on this date?”

“Yes Of course, I do Why wouldn’t I want to? You proood date I’m kind of excited about it”

“Okay, good” He gripped the steering wheel “It’s not safe for you to be waiting on the doorstep like that I’d have liked to be the perfect gentleman and helped you”

She shrugged “Don’t worry about it”

“I do worry” He reached out, taking her hand He held her hand against his lips and kissed her knuckles “This was not how I intended to start our date”

“How did you intend to start it?” she asked

He loved her curiosity

Reaching into the backseat, he pulled out the flowers he had delivered to the house before he got changed and had his little conversation with his sister Over a dozen red roses

“Oh, my … they are so beautiful,” she said

“They are for you A woiven plenty of roses in her life”

“Now that is sweet and kind of sexy” She pressed a kiss to his cheek and immediately pulled away “I’m sorry I don’t knohat this is” She covered her mouth

“This is?”

“Is it an actual date? A friend date? A date for fauess I assumed it was a date-date”