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older than her.”
    “When did they date?” Brynn asked, not sure why she was suddenly annoyed to find out Alec dated someone Carly knew. It’s not like she was interested in him.
    “High school, sometime. Why?”
    “Oh. No reason.” Brynn looked away and picked up the fork to dish up some salad, hoping that Carly didn’t notice the heat rising in her cheeks at the thought of him.
    “I’m just going to throw this chicken on the grill. I’ll be back in a minute.”
    True to her word, Carly returned a minute later and sat at the table where she could keep an eye on the chicken grilling on the deck. “So tell me more about your day.” Brynn giggled again. “What?” Carly asked, not doing well at hiding her annoyance.
    “Sorry. It’s just funny. Kind of like ‘honey, I’m home.’ It’s cute; don’t worry about it.”
    “Cute.” Carly snorted. “Great, cute.”
    “I need a glass of wine. Do you want one?”
    “Sure. And since you’re determined to laugh at me, I’ll let you get up and wait on me.”
    “Deal,” Brynn replied with a little snicker.
    Once seated back down at the table and sipping her wine, Brynn started. “I spent most of my day organizing my office. Alec is kind of a slob. Not so much the office as a whole, but his desk. He didn’t seem to mind that I was rearranging things. Surprisingly, he was pretty nice about it and said he would try to put everything back in its place.”
    “How did you feel about the mess on his desk? Did your eye start to twitch like it normally does when something isn’t organized just right?”
    Shaking her head, Brynn said, “No. But when I climbed in his truck it did.” Brynn was trying not to remember how messy Alec’s truck was. She opened the front door and saw an empty coffee cup on the seat along with a few pieces of paper scattered about and some discarded food wrappers. When he grabbed the empty cup and tossed it into the backseat of his four-door truck, she’d tried not to cringe. She wished her eyes had never followed the cup into the backseat.
    More empty balled-up food bags, papers and empty coffee cups, along with empty water bottles, were rolling around haphazardly. To his credit, he did have the grace to look embarrassed. He actually flushed slightly, but then shrugged and laughed.
    “You mean you didn’t start cleaning it up for him?” Carly joked. “How did you contain yourself?”
    “It was hard, but I managed. I just hope he is true to his word and puts things back in the office. Though, he isn’t there that often, so it might not be that big of an issue.”
    “Why are you blushing?”
    “I’m not blushing,” Brynn rushed out.
    “Yes, you are. That is the second time I caught a blush when you said something about Alec.”
    Damn. Brynn forgot there wasn’t much she could hide from Carly. “It’s just a bit warm in here,” she lied.
    “Bull.” What was Brynn thinking, that Carly was a pushover? She wasn’t, at least she never was with Brynn. Carly pointed a finger and said in a sing-song voice, “You think your boss is cute.” Carly spent way too much time around young kids. Right now, pointing her finger and jumping around, she looked like one of her students.
    “Grow up,” Brynn said, trying to keep a straight face, but she couldn’t, and gave in and smiled. “So what? What’s wrong with thinking he’s attractive? I’d have to be dead not to notice.”
    “And there are two of them, you know?” Carly said back, wiggling her eyebrows.
    “Ha, good one.”
    “Are they single? Maybe we can double date,” Carly said on her way to check on the chicken.
    When she returned, Brynn answered, “I don’t know. It’s not something you usually ask your boss, or any co-workers, because nothing can or will come of it. He’s my boss. He is really nice. So far, everyone has been. This is my dream job, so there is absolutely nothing I’m going to do to blow this. Besides, he’s not even my type. You know I steer