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looking around. The road was empty.
    “I flew here.”
    “You…flew?” Realization hit her in an instant, and she freaked out, kicked open her door, and bolted outside. “You’re that giant owl?”
    Ryder held his hands out as though he was confused by her abrupt exit. He got out and leaned on the hood of her ride. With a naughty grin, he pointed to his dick and said, “Yeah. Giant owl. I thought about doing a naked scene for you, but then I thought maybe nah, my giant dong can be intimidating at first glance, and I think we should be friends before we get to the benefit part. I mean, I don’t really think that because I’m a dude and would be fine if you wanted to do benefits now, but I read a book about how you have to seduce women slowly, so…” He frowned. “What are you wearing? No matter.” He gestured to his lap. “You still gave me a boner.”
    Lexi shook her head hard to rattle her churning thoughts into a coherent sentence. “So you planned this…photo shoot? For me? Like, you put jugs of water out here, and those shorts are on purpose?”
    Ryder scrunched up his face in a cocky-male expression and said, “Yeah.”
    Lexi scratched her head and murmured, “Okay, I’m going to go home now.”
    “Cool. Do you want me to ride with you or follow behind? I can fly, but I’ll be losing the shorts, and when I Change back, I’ll be bare-ass naked. The choice is yours.”
    “No, you aren’t coming home with me.”
    He offered her an utterly offended frown. “Wait no. I have questions.”
    “What questions?”
    He pulled a small notebook from his back pocket and slung water off of it before he held up the first scribbled page for her to see. “Interview questions. I’m shopping for a third best friend.”
    “Friends,” she said suspiciously.
    “With benefits who like to pet each other’s—”
    Lexi shook her head in warning, so Ryder amended, “Friends who are just friends.”
    Better. Lexi rubbed her hand over her forehead and looked around. With a sigh, she gestured to his notepad. “Okay, ask me.”
    “Number one. On a scale of one to ten, how much do you like giving blow jobs to—”
    “Ryder.”
    “So a ten,” he murmured, making a note.
    Lexi pursed her lips against her smile because he didn’t need encouragement.
    “Number two. Do you like dogs?”
    Good, a normal question. “Yes.”
    “Three. What percentage of time do you spend in the mornings on choosing lingerie versus the clothes you wear?”
    She gave him a dead-eyed look.
    “Fine, pass. Four, multiple choice. Do you want seven, eight, or twelve children?”
    She refused to answer that one, too, but now it was getting harder not to laugh, and Ryder wasn’t helping because he wasn’t keeping a straight face either. She rested her fingertips nonchalantly over her lips to hide the smile there.
    “Five…” He cracked a smile, then smoothed back out his face and tried again. “Five, what cup-size are your tits?”
    Okay, now that she knew this was a big joke to him, she wanted to play. “I’m a B-Cup.”
    Ryder ticked his mouth in mock-disappointment and jotted down some notes.
    “But,” she joked, “they swell to full Cs when I’m on my period.”
    “Mmm,” he said, fighting a grin. “I’ve never been so excited about a woman’s menses before.”
    He stood there staring at her, his eyes dancing with the smile he was trying to stave off, and she couldn’t do it. Couldn’t hold his gaze, or she would lose it. She stared off into the woods and clenched her teeth against the laughter that was bubbling up her throat.
    “I have questions for you now,” she said.
    “I’m an open book and have no shame. Hit me.”
    “Where did you find those tiny shorts?”
    “Someone from my old crew showed me how to make them out of jeans.”
    “Great, how did you find me?”
    The ghost of the smile dipped from his lips. “I asked around about you.”
    “From Alana?”
    “No.” He narrowed his eyes. “Yes, but she