chapter 19

“It’s kinda romantic,” Victoria says. “And fucking stupid at the same time.”

I glower. “I’ve asked her out pretty much every month for ten years. She won’t go out with me. What was I supposed to do?”

“Give up?” Victoria suggests. “Accept you’ve lost?”

“Yeah, that sounds like something I’d do.”

“How are you feeling?” Mack asks.

“Fucking terrified.”

“But you’re still going through with it?”

I shrug and give him a helpless look. “I can’t think what else to do.”

He meets my eyes for a moment, and then we both smile. Now he’s got Sidnie, he understands the stupid things you do for the woman you love.

“So if you jump, she’s agreed to give you one night?” Victoria asks. “What happens after that?”

“I’ll be so absolutely amazing in bed that she’ll beg to see me again.”

She lifts an eyebrow.

“Yeah,” I say, “it’s a stretch, I know. I’m going to have to pull out all the stops.”

“You mean you’ll actually have to do some foreplay for a change?”

“And pay for the pizza at the end.”

They all snort.

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