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“I would’ve had you use a better name. Damon? For fuck’s sake, Paige.”

Her mouth fell open.

He blinked at her for several seconds and then burst into laughter. “Holy shit, you should see your face right now. Oh, God, that’s funny.”

“You’re awful,” she complained, then laughed with him. “I thought you were serious.”

“I was serious about using a better name. I would’ve had you use mine.”

“Really?”

“Hell, yeah.”

He said it so adamantly that she believed him, which touched her more than he would ever know.

After they were done eating, he opened his gift while she watched nervously. When he saw the urn, he traced the engraved name. “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

Silence settled between them for a moment and then David broke it by telling her, “I’m really glad you came by.”

“I am, too.” She gave him a quick smile before adding quietly, “But, I should probably be going.”

David glanced at his Tag Heuer and nodded when he saw that it was a little past 4 p.m. and Jacob would be home soon. After putting their dishes in the sink, he ignored her protests that he didn’t need to walk her out to her car. “I’m not on the douchebag spectrum, thank you very much. So shut-up and let me be a gentleman.”

Down on the sidewalk, after she unlocked her car, he pulled her in for a hug, although it was more friendly and less intense than the last one they’d shared.

But still … very nice.

Chapter 57

DAVID: I just finished your book and left a review. It’s written under my clever account name ‘Book Boyfriend’ in case you want to check it out.

Paige shook her head in amusement after reading David’s text.

PAIGE: Thanks. I will.

Then, thinking that would be the end of the conversation, she was surprised when he kept it going.

DAVID: You’re a good writer. Have you ever thought about writing anything else?

PAIGE: Not really. What would I write about?

DAVID: Something fictional. A rom-com, maybe.

PAIGE: A rom-com?

DAVID: A romantic comedy.

PAIGE: I know what it is.

DAVID: Then why did you ask?

PAIGE: Never mind.

DAVID: Forget rom-coms. Do a historical romance.

DAVID: You could write about an English duke who travels to a ranch in Texas to buy a stallion for his bride of convenience back in Yorkshire, only to have him fall in love with the innocent, yet buxom, rancher’s daughter, who’s betrothed to one of the cowboys on the ranch.

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