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"Done." Knox started to get out of the SUV.

She reached over and grabbed his arm. "Where are you going?"

"Inside."

"We’re not doing... You’re not coming over tonight. My niece is going to be back after the shop closes. And weren’t you listening? I said that you couldn’t come in the front door. No one can see you. Do you understand?"

He could see how important that was for her. "Yes."

"Okay. Then, tomorrow night. Be here at nine." She didn’t wait for his response; she just hopped out of the vehicle, slammed the door, and rushed up to her house.

As he watched her disappear inside, he wondered if he’d imagined what had just happened. Maybe he was having a stroke or something. Laura Lopez had not just invited him over for sex tomorrow night.

He was still staring at the door when his phone buzzed.

Laura: Drive away. Neighbors. Remember.

He grinned. It had happened. It turned out that going to a sperm bank was the best first date he’d ever been on.

15

"So,how did your date with Laura go?" Keaton asked as the two men caught their breath.

Knox and his cousin had just spent the past hour rolling at his gym. Knox was in good shape—great shape, even—but he wasn’t in professional MMA shape. Keaton had stopped competing years ago, but his cousin still stayed in the elite athletic shape he’d been in when he had.

"Okay." Knox wasn’t sure how he was supposed to answer that.

"Where did you go?"

"I don’t remember the name. It was out of town."

"For dinner?"

Knox just nodded. He didn’t make a habit of lying, but he couldn’t tell his cousin where they’d really gone. He couldn’t tell anyone. It was part of the agreement that they had.

No one could know that they were hooking up.

Not that they had. Yet.

But tonight was the night. He’d even had his friend Chris send him the paperwork that he’d used for his arrangement. Knox had e-signed it and sent it to Laura.

Like their first date, this hookup was the most bizarre he had ever experienced. He’d dated women where he’d known that sex was going to happen, but it had never been under the pressure of procreation. If anything, it had been the opposite. He’d always done everything in his power not to get a woman pregnant.

Tonight would be the first time in his life he’d ever raw dogged it. From the age of fourteen, when he became sexually active, he’d always jimmy’d up. It didn’t matter if women told him they were on the pill, the shot, or that they had their tubes tied; he’dneverhad unprotected sex.

And now he was going to do it with the hottest woman he’d ever seen. He had to admit that he was a little nervous that he wouldn’t last more than a pump or two. Which was why he’d called his cousin for a quick session. He figured the more physically exhausted he was, the less worked up his body would be.

"Everything okay, man?" Keaton grabbed a towel and wiped his head and neck. "You seem…distracted. And I’m not just saying that because I kicked your ass."

Knox chuckled. "I’m good. What about you?" Knox knew that it was none of his business, but something had been bothering him since he’d asked Keaton to go to the speed dating event. "Have you talked to Camilla lately?"

Knox took a swig out of his sports bottle as Keaton tossed the white towel in a bin.

"Not for a while. Last I heard, she was engaged."

Knox choked on the water that was halfway down his throat when his cousin dropped that bombshell. After recovering and clearing his throat, he asked, "Engaged? To who?"

Keaton shrugged. "Some guy she works with."

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