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Not over a few simple words.

“Don’t be a fucking wuss,” she says. “Tell him.”

“Who are you, the I Love You police?”

“Might be,” she grumbled.

“I don't know. Maybe I'll tell him this weekend.”

“How long have you known?”

Half a year, I muse.

Since I walked him back to his car after the pool that night.

“For a while,” I say.

Closing the tailgate I hook my arm around her shoulders.

“Thank you, Veronika.”

“Eww,” she recoils. “Never call me that.”

“Noted.”

Climbing back into the driver’s seat, I start the engine.

“Don't get cum all over my tent,” she warns.

“We'll leave the door unzipped,” I tease.

Driving away, I blow her a kiss.

She flips a middle finger in my rearview mirror.

But her smile is forgiving.

???

Soon after I return from Talia’s, my phone buzzes on the dashboard.

Almost donexx

Marco emerges from the salon looking fine as fuck.

How on earth is he mine?

And how am I meant to behave, driving in close proximity for an entire week?

I wolf whistle from the window.

“Hey hottie, can I get your number?”

He opens the passenger door.

A musky aroma drifts on the breeze.

“That depends. Do your kisses leave a man weak at the knees?”