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“Anyway, are you going out with her tonight?” Evan asked.

He’d hoped he’d avoided the question altogether. “Yeah, but it’s not a date.”

“Why not?”

Caden pushed to his feet and headed for the door. “I need to shower, and you need to get cleaned up, too. Remember to put on a clean shirt.”

“Yeah, yeah. I know. But you can’t avoid the question. Why isn’t it a date?”

He couldn’t explain something he didn’t understand himself.

“It’s complicated,” he said before heading to his room.