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In order to get away from the other realtor that worked in June’s office, who was currently making his skin crawl… he’d left and said he would return. He hadn’t even started his car yet when June came running – literally.
… And now he was following her, like some stalker creep out of a horror movie?
“Oh my gosh Ian, you seriously need your head examined if you think this is the smart thing to do…?”
The car glided into the other lane of the road and turned on its turn signal, and Ian did the same. The road turned into a two-lane country road before there was a sign ahead.
Ashbury Park.
A park?he mused, wondering if she was cutting through some children’s park or national park… only to hesitate as the sleek SUV pulled into a trailer park.
She kept slowly driving and then slowed down – prompting Ian to make a right immediately, parking in front of some other mobile home where people were staring out the window at him.
He waved.
As June drove forward again, he hesitated and just watched her get towards the end of the lane and turned left. Once out of sight, he backed up and immediately drove down the bumpy road, through the neighborhood, and saw that it dead-ended into a ‘T’.
… And there, in the distance, was a carport at the very end of the road, complete with latticework covered in flowers, designed to hide the luxury vehicle. He watched June pull a plastic trash can up to the mobile home, like she’d done it a million times…
What in the world was going on?
His starlet, his pin-up girl, his precious pen pal that wowed him so thoroughly and drove some expensive vehicle that was probably more expensive than that mobile home… lived here?
Turning around, he drove back out of the neighborhood and realized that he needed to come up with a plan. He wasn’t a stalker, a weirdo, but rather wanted to reach his girl and have her talk to him. Gosh, she was so stinking gorgeous, it took his breath away.
Yeah, this was definitely going to require some ingenious recon work behind enemy lines.
Hours later, he realized that he might have the solution.
* * *
This waseither the most brilliant plan he’d ever come up with – or the most ignorant one… and both descriptions applied to him fully. He was onebrilliant ignoramuswho was about to get the police called on him by a very scared woman.
“Shhh…” he whispered audibly, and parked in front of the other mobile home in order to not be seen. Putting his plan into motion, the first step would require a silent set up… and a miracle.
He was no fool.
Very carefully, he constructed most of his surprise in the parking lot of Home Depot, before darting over to the Wal-Mart next door to finish the remainder of it… only to get distracted in the parking lot by a family, before moving to pick up the remainder of things.
If one bit of his plan failed, if something fell through the cracks, he was going to be explaining to the Army why he was detained in Texas.
“Oh gosh,” he gulped, and looked up at the deepening orange and purples of the vibrant sunset. “If you are actually listening, just remember? I’ve never asked for anything before… but I’m freakin’beggingfor this favor, please? Do me a solid, Big Guy.”
He held his breath as he pulled forward, honked his horn, and then bolted into place for this charade to begin.
9
JUNE
Lookingup at the car horn, she rolled her eyes and realized the neighbors were having people over again. That was what she liked about being at the very end of the road, that she only had neighbors on one side.
Her email to Ian had not been responded to as of yet – and maybe she was a little harsh. It was one single sentence and nothing else needed to be said… until he replied.
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING COMING HERE?
Sitting at the table, she continued making notes, sending out emails to potential customers, and using her phone to make cold-calls.
“Hello, my name is June Peyton of ReMax and…”
