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If he was being inundated by female attention, was she getting hit on by countless guys?
“It’s the women more than the photographers,” Landon admitted. “I swear to God, I found two of them going through my garbage outside this morning. And I had to kill my Instagram because some of the pics I was getting tagged on were…”
Aaron gave him a sympathetic nod. “Yeah. I get what you’re saying. The tabloids are one thing. The women…well, I’m afraid I’m not sure how to help single hot cop in regards to all that.”
Landon sighed—then stilled, replaying the comment.
Single hot cop.
Single.
“You are still single, aren’t you?” Aaron asked.
And there it was. Landon had waited a week for this particular shoe to drop. Aaron hadn’t mentioned the kiss until this moment.
“I, um…well…uh…”
Wow. He’d had a whole week to come up with an answer and that was all he could manage.
Aaron walked over and placed a hand on his shoulder. “Yeah. That’s what I thought. Go to the pub, Landon. Kick back a few pints with Finn and Sunnie. Hiding from women is one thing, but hiding from your friends is another. Let Sunnie show you how it’s done. I figure the two of you are tied together by what’s happened. You need to be around someone who gets what you’re going through, and right now, that’s her.”
Was Aaron talking about the video or confusion over the kiss?
Then he saw the truth of Aaron’s observation. He’d spent a week feeling like a bug under a microscope. He was miserable with the constant scrutiny. Sunnie had obviously found a way to make it fun.
Like she did everything.
Suddenly he understood why his mood had been getting progressively blacker with each passing day. He missed Sunnie.
And that’s when the answer came to him.
Sunnie had a fun-loving, larger-than-life personality. He needed her silly perspective on all of this to get him through. But more than that…he needed to erase the word single from hot cop.
Maybe forever.
The problem was Sunnie wouldn’t come around easily. So he’d have to trick her into it.
And he had the perfect plan.
Sunnie was about to pay him back for saving her from the mugger by going out with him. Having Sunnie pose as his girlfriend would hopefully get the hot-cop groupies off his back. But more than that, it would show Sunnie something that the two of them should have recognized all along.
They belonged together.
Life was about to get a lot more fun.
Chapter Eight
Sunnie sat in a booth at Pat’s Pub with a couple of her nursing friends, enjoying a Friday night happy hour, complete with big-ass margaritas. Her weekend off had just gotten extended to a week, thanks to that damn video. She intended to kick it off in style.
She glanced around the pub, looking for Landon. It had become a bad habit of hers, ever since the mugging and that kiss. Probably because he hadn’t darkened her door once in the past two weeks. The guy was a regular fixture in her life, stopping by the Collins Dorm every couple of nights. This was the longest he’d stayed away.
And it was fucking with her head.
Giving her too much time to think.
Sunnie was pretty sure when she did see him, everything between them would be cool. Same as always.
Maybe.
