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She didn’t bother to say anything else. Instead, she flipped a casual wave and walked away, deciding this plan of his wasn’t a good one.
So…she needed to form a plan of her own.
She grinned, considering the parameters they planned to set tonight over dinner. She knew exactly how to bring Landon back to his senses. She’d make a few demands of her own.
She had to.
Because Sunnie had become as obsessed with the viral kiss as those lonely hearts following him around. However, unlike those women, she had something to lose. Something pretty major.
Landon.
* * *
Landon hadn’t been alone at the table more than thirty seconds when Finn plopped down in the seat Sunnie had just vacated.
“What gives?”
He’d seen Finn walk into the pub just a few minutes earlier. Finn had stopped by the bar for the pint of Guinness in his hand. And he’d seen the kiss he and Sunnie had just shared.
Another kiss. This was becoming a habit.
“What do you mean?” Landon decided to play dumb, drive Finn crazy. He figured he had at least fifteen minutes to kill before Sunnie came back down. He might as well have some fun.
“You just kissed my sister. Again.”
“I know.”
Finn leaned back in the chair and rubbed his jaw, his expression the textbook definition of confused. “Are you two dating?”
Landon chuckled and shook his head. “Not exactly.”
He probably should have chosen his words more carefully, because Finn misinterpreted them, his eyes narrowing angrily. “You better not be fucking—”
Landon put his hands up, a sign of surrender. “Come on, man. You know me better than that,” he said quickly. “Sunnie is going to help me scare away the damn groupies.”
“How?”
“She and I are going to pretend we’re dating.”
Finn took a sip of his beer as he chewed over that piece of information. “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“It’s a great idea,” Landon insisted. “The tabloids keep trying to put us together in some forbidden love affair, so we’re just going to give it to them. Hopefully, this will scare off the women chasing me. What’s more boring than a couple going out to dinner and to the movies? With any luck, this will help things blow over quicker.”
“They’re going to blow over on their own anyway. I can’t see any reason to push the issue.”
“It’s driving me crazy, Finn. I’m not like you and Sunnie. I can’t stand being in the spotlight.”
“You just have to give it time. This shit never goes on for that long. People have very short attention spans.”
Landon shrugged. “I know. And I’m going to try to make them even shorter.”
Finn ran his finger through the condensation on his mug, quiet for a few moments, before looking at him again. “Are you sure that’s why you’re doing this?”
Landon frowned. “What’s that mean? What other reason would there be?”
“You keep kissing her, man.”
Glancing across the pub, Landon tried to figure out how to explain it to Finn. God, he’d like to find a way to explain it to himself. He’d kissed her at that damn party and…God…he just woke up.
