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“Is Wednesday okay?”

“Yes Kacey and I don’t have any plans”

“Do you think we could talk her into watching Levi?”

“I don’t think we’ll have to twist her ar there eavesdropping and nodding her head emphatically

He suggested a couple of places they could go She told him to surprise her, because she truly didn’t care where they went And if she knew, she’d start looking forward to it, picturing the evening in detail, building it into more than it could be

But she couldn’t let hi up Not yet

Because hethat date before he’d ever made a reservation

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

GLAD THAT HE’D changed histo bed on a Tressa low, Je back and forth with the woman on the other end of the line

He’d forgotten what a natural high that could be He’d been into Tressa Really into her But he couldn’t re bad in his world

He’d been into other women, too A few of them

Nothing compared

He’d asked Lacey Hamilton out on a date And she’d actually said yes

She said yes! He felt like his junior high self, ready to race his bike to the top of the mountain that stood just outside his hos

Instead, he sat there sipping beer, unable to wipe the goofy grin off his face