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“If this is a dream,” he whispered, “then I don’t want to wake up.”

She couldn’t help but smile. “What if I said this wasn’t a dream?” she teased.

He chuckled and lazily shifted them until MacKenzie was on top of him. His hand slowly skimmed down to her hips and he squeezed. “Then I’d ask what I did to deserve someone as incredible as you.”

Emotion clogged her throat. And rather than speak, she simply did her best to show him how incredible she thought he was too.

ChapterThirteen

Every inch of Devin’s body hurt. Between the volleyball and the vigorous sex he and MacKenzie had had throughout the night, he wasn’t sure he’d be able to do a whole hell of a lot at the festival the next morning.

The kissing booth. What the hell had he been thinking?

“That I was a single guy and it could be fun,” he muttered over his coffee.

Ashlynn and Avery had come by an hour ago to pick up MacKenzie so they could decorate the local businesses tent. It was nice that they wanted to keep including her in things, but he was starting to feel like it was that sort of stuff that was making it harder on her to decide what she wanted to do.

And where she wanted to be.

Dammit.

The house was quiet, but his brain wouldn’t shut up.

If my car had been running…I was going to head out on Sunday.

Yeah, that had been playing on a constant loop for most of the morning. If the damn car was fixed, she would be on the road to Oregon right now, no matter how much she said she wasn’t in a rush. Was she lying to him then? He had no idea what was the truth and what wasn’t anymore because she kept flip-flopping on her plans and it was making him crazy.

And clearly he already was well on his way to losing his damn mind because he was the reason the car broke down yesterday. Shaking his head, he still couldn’t believe he’d sabotaged it. He’d loosened some wires and knew once she shut the car off, she wouldn’t be able to restart it. He was pathetic. What the hell had he thought he’d accomplish with such a childish act? Eventually the car was going to be fixed and she was going to be free to leave. Thankfully, MacKenzie knew little to nothing about cars and she’d have no way of knowing he’d been the reason her car had stopped working the other day.

Desperate times, desperate measures. And for what? She was still going. He let out a loud sigh and almost jumped out of his skin when there was a loud knock on the front door. Slowly, he got to his feet and ambled over to answer it.

“Will,” he said with mild confusion. “What’s up?”

“Hey! Do you have a few minutes? I wanted to talk to you about something.”

Devin nodded and took a step back, motioning for Will to come in. He sounded serious and normally, that wasn’t the case. “Sure. Can I get you some coffee?”

“No. But thanks.” They walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table. Will let out a long breath but seemed hesitant to speak.

“What’s going on?”

“First, I want to apologize for my behavior the other day and for what I said to MacKenzie. I was completely out of line. I thought I was doing a good thing.”

“Is that all?” he asked with a small laugh. “We’re good, Will. We talked about this that day and we’re cool. Really. Stop worrying about it.”

“I want to. I really do, but…” He let out another sigh as he shifted in his seat. “Okay, you know one of the things that sucks about living in a small town?”

“Um…”

“It’s how everyone knows your business and can be gossipy,” he stated. “So I ran into Books & Beans this morning and ran into Ashlynn, Avery, and MacKenzie.”

“O-kay…”

“I was minding my own business when Avery pulled me aside and told me that MacKenzie’s been talking to her mom–like they messaged each other on Facebook or something–but she doesn’t think MacKenzie really wants to go to Oregon.”

For a moment, he was too stunned to speak. MacKenzie had talked to her mother and didn’t mention it to him? Why?

“I don’t know what to say to that,” he admitted.

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