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Go to second base

Have an orgasm in public

Go on the best date of my life

Chapter 23

Layla

KIERAN

I know it’s your day off this Sunday but do you want to come to family day at Grayson’s?

Emmy would love for you to come

LAYLA

I’d love to

for Emmy of course

KIERAN

*I’m coming to see your sexy face*

think you had a typo

Bella continues to blink, her jaw open, all while Cindy stands beside her grinning from ear to ear.

“I-I’m sorry, he did what?” Bella stutters out.

Peering over my shoulder to make sure he’s not in earshot, I step forward, lowering my voice to a whisper. “He rented out a bookstore for me, and at the end, he grabbed all the books I said I wanted to read and bought them.”

Cindy whistles. “I fucking called it.” She cackleswildly. “I knew it!”

“Shh!”

She waves me off. “Oh please, they’re all outside talking about hockey. They won’t hear me. Besides, they’re used to my loud shenanigans.”

Bella turns to Cindy. “And to think this happened because you stuck your nose in their business and forced Layla to give that guy her number.”

“I take full matchmaking credit.” She smiles at me smugly. “I told you, the man is smitten.”

Bella scoffs. “Matchmaking credit, my ass. The two of them met because ofme.”

“No one is taking matchmaking credit! I told you, it’s an arrangement.”

“Potayto, potahto,” Cindy mutters into her wineglass.

“Was I this annoying when I was in denial about Grayson?” Bella asks.

Blowing out a raspberry, I’m about to harp on them again that he has no real feelings for me, but Allie steps inside with Emmy on her hip.

“This gorgeous girl wants a juice box,” she declares.

Before she can do it herself, and more so to give myself a reprieve from my persistent friends, I grab a juice box out of the fridge, passing it across the countertop.

“Thanks, honey.”