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“We know you like to think the best of people,” Cousin Three adds. “Just want you to stay on the lookout for gold diggers.”
“Appreciate it,” I deadpan.
And I do. To an extent. Because I do tend to see the best in the people I like, but there wasn’t anything about Natalie that struck me as greedy or ungenuine.
She’s attractive and funny and fun to be around.
And I think she’s into me the same way I’m into her.
Or at least she seemed that way last night.
And in the ocean.
And in her hotel room.
I push my thoughts away from the feel of her body against mine. Because it’s not just the tight, hot feel of her as she took every inch of me. It’s her.
I want to seeheragain.
With that on my mind, I check my phone and find a text message from a new number.
Unknown: Have a safe trip home, Mr. Muscles. Thank you for all the times you appeared out of nowhere. I fear this weekend may have been dreadful without you.
Smiling, I save her number.
Chapter 34
The First Text Messages
Luke: It was my pleasure, Green Eyes. I’m at the airport now. Let me know when you land.
Princess: Landed in not-quite-Chicago. Have three hours before my first web meeting… would rather be floating in the ocean.
Luke: Landed in it’s-really-Minnesota. Times like these, I really appreciate that I play a game for a living.
Luke: What sort of meetings do you have today, Corporate Princess?
Princess: Canadian ones. I’ll wave to your state from the air.
Luke: Tell me the time and I’ll waveback.
Princess: Don’t you have practice or something?
Luke: *groans* Yes, but I’m pretending I don’t because I don’t want to get out of bed.
Princess: Such a lazy athlete. You gotta put all those fancy muscles to use.
Luke: So… You think my muscles are fancy?
Princess: (puts phone on airplane mode)
Princess: Saw your face in the airport today.
Luke: Oh yeah? Was I handsome?
Luke: That’s a rhetorical question because obviously.
Princess: Someone slapped the magazine barcode sticker across your forehead. So maybe not as handsome as you’re hoping.
