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“Okay.”
“What?”
“I said okay. I’ll do it.”
“Really?” I asked, stunned.
“If it gets this conversation to end, I’ll do it.”
“Okay. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you, Damian.”
He held his hand out toward me. I raised my hand that wasn’t holding the basket of laundry to my side, and I slapped his hand, as if he was asking for a high five. Well, a low five more so.
“No. You owe me.”
“Owe you what?”
“Ten bucks.”
“Oh. Right. Of course.” I glanced around, realizing I didn’t have the money right at that moment. “My purse is in my bedroom and—”
“Stella.”
“Yes?”
“It was a joke. I don’t want your money.”
“Oh. Yeah, cool. A joke.”
A joke?
A joke?!
Damian Blackstone just joked with me?
With me?!
Well then. That kind of made my day that much brighter.
17
Stella
The nightof the double date, I packed with nerves. Jeff wasn’t making it any easier for me, either, when he arrived at the property.
“Where did you get that car?” I blurted out as Jeff stepped out of a decked-out, extremely out of budget BMW. My jaw was pretty much sitting on the sidewalk as I walked over to him and the vehicle that was clearly not his fourteen-year-old Honda.
“I got an upgrade,” he said, tossing his hands in the air in bliss. “Tell me this isn’t dope, and I’ll call you a liar.”
I narrowed my eyes. “But… how? You don’t have money for this kind of thing. And your new DJing equipment…” My mind was spiraling as Damian and Kelsey were inside, finishing up their glasses of wine before heading out to dinner. The two appeared to be getting along so well.
Why did it bother me that they were getting along so well?
I cleared my throat and my mind and focused back on Jeff. “Is that a designer suit, Jeff?”
“I think what you mean is ‘you look ridiculously striking, Jeff,’” he stated, walking over to me. He glanced toward the house and then leaned in and kissed me. Hard. For a freakishly long time.
“What’s gotten into you?” I said, pulling away. He glanced back at the house, and I turned to see Damian looking out of the window at us. Damian disappeared, and Jeff shook off his shoulders.
