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Both of my friends laughed at that, but I wasn’t even joking.
Frisk me.
Arrest me.
Lock me up and throw away the key as long as I get a good view of these two men from my jail cell.
“I think there might be easier ways to get their attention,” Janessa said, still laughing a little. “But don’t let me stop you. I guess I’ve just never looked at them like that before.”
Becca gave her a sideways glance. “No, I guess you probably haven’t…”
It was my turn to stifle a laugh this time. If Janessa thought her crush on the two other houseguests—a couple of ranchers and family friends from a hundred miles away, apparently—had gone unnoticed, then she was crazy. Becca and I had picked up on their mutual attraction the first time we’d seen the three of them together.
I was pretty sure the only person in the house whohadn’tguessed there was something going on between the three of them was Janessa’s uncle, Justin.
Which, given the older man’s temper and protective nature, was probably for the best.
“What does that mean?” Janessa asked.
Her tone was more than a little defensive. Maybe she really did think she’d been doing a good job of fooling all of us. She’d been out here on this ranch, cut off from the rest of the world for so long that she’d apparently forgotten the cardinal rule of budding relationships: Your best friends can always tell.
“Nothing, really…” Becca gave her a sweet-but-knowing smile. “Just… it’s pretty obvious you’ve had your eyes on a couple of other guys, that’s all.”
I couldn’t even stifle my laugh this time. That had to have been the understatement of the decade. Maybe the century. Janessa practically drooled every time Cade and Boone—the cute rancher guys—walked by.
Janessa’s look changed from defensive to worried in an instant. “Is it really that obvious?”
I had two choices—lie to try and make her feel better or tell the truth and hope that she’d do the same with us. So… not really a choice at all, right?
“Come on, Janessa,” I said, trying to ease the truth with a smile, at least. “They couldn’t even let you out of their sight long enough for you to come pick us up from the bus station. Pretty sure it’s obvious to anyone with eyes that the three of you have something going on.”
As if to prove my point, Cade and Boone appeared from around the side of the house with Janessa’s uncle to greet the sheriff.
“You’re doing it again,” Becca snickered.
“What?” Janessa’s eyes had locked onto her guys, and it was as if nothing else even existed in her world. “I’m not doing anything…”
Becca and I exchanged a look and both shook our heads. Our girl had it bad for these guys.
Which was understandable. They were good-looking guys, after all. Not as hot as my fantasy cops, of course, but still objectively good-looking.
I just wondered how she was going to decide between the two of them, since it seemed pretty clear that they were both pretty interested in her, too.
But that question would have to wait for another day. Right now, I was more concerned with finding a way to introduce myself to these hot cops.
* * *
The lawmen were already talking to Cade, Boone, and Justin when we walked up to join the group. Still, I couldn’t help but notice the way the sheriff and his deputy both paused mid-sentence to look over at us.
And okay, maybe I only noticed because I hadn’t taken my eyes off them since they’d pulled up in the driveway a few minutes before. And maybe I was also secretly hoping they were only focusing onmebehind those mirrored sunglasses they were wearing.
Not that I would have intentionally stood in the way if either of my friends had been interested in the officers, but Janessa already had her own guys, and I was pretty sure the policemen weren’t really Becca’s type.
So as far as I was concerned, that meant they were both mine.
Potentially mine.
Hopefullymine.
