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“I knew it! I fucking knew it!”

She tosses a mini Kit-Kat at me and I wasn’t expecting it so it hits me in the chest and I laugh. When she flings a second one, I’m ready this time and I catch it before it has a chance to whack me in the face.

“Okay, okay, you don’t have to be a brat about it.” I unwrap the candy bar and take a bite.

“I can’t wait to tell Cams about this,” Rosie says, picking up her phone.

Groaning, I say, “Does she really have to know that, too?”

“Are you kidding? Absolutely!”

“I thought we were trying to conserve our phone batteries?”

“This is too good to sit on.”

Shaking my head, I lean back on my palms and cross my ankles, watching Rosie’s face light up while she taps on her phone. I don’t know why this surprises me. Hayden and I might be guys, but we practically tell each other everything too.

Except for the necklace. That I might keep to myself.

Rosie’s expression shifts from amusement to sadness. I’m not supposed to care about her. Or her feelings. So I don’t ask.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to.

“Well, shit.” Rosie tosses her phone to the floor.

My gut twists.

“Looks like we’ve got an estimated time for the power to come back on.”

“Yeah?”

“Day after tomorrow.”

“Dang.”

“They aren’t expecting the roads to be cleared until then either.”

“So we’re stuck alone together for another day,” I muse without expecting a response.

But when Rosie lifts her gaze and we lock eyes, the previous disappointment on her expression dissolves.Could she be okay with this? Or even, excited?

My own eagerness travels south.

“Guess so.”

“How are we going to keep busy until they get here?”

Our gaze turns heated.

Oh hell are we royally screwed.

CHAPTER15

Rosie

ME

Be my conscience and tell me sleeping with Nico again is a bad idea.

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