Page 125 of Love Thy Neighbor

I couldn’t be prouder of her.

I hit save on the code I was looking over. The game we’ve been working on for nearly a year now is set to come out in two months, and we’ve been cleaning up all the bugs the test players have found. It’s led to long nights and even longer weekends, but I’m excited about how it’s going to do, especially since the reception has been fantastic so far.

“It’s been five minutes…” she calls.

With a grin, I push away from my desk and pad down the hall.

“I’m done,” I say, coming into the living room. “Are you happy?”

She tosses her sketchpad aside and looks up at me with excited eyes. “Yes. Now can we order pizza? I’mstarving.”

“Hi, starving. I’m Cooper.”

She grins, then rolls her eyes at me.

“Don’t roll your eyes at me. You know what that does to me, and if you’re so hungry, I highly doubt you want me to get distracted right now.”

“Fair point.” She gets up off the couch, her favorite gray blanket falling from her shoulders. “Can we order breadsticks too?”

“I suppose,” I say as she grabs her phone, ready to place our order. “I mean, itisa special day and all.”

“It is?” She wrinkles her nose, stopping what she’s doing. “Why?”

I lift a brow. “You don’t remember?”

“Um…no?” She looks at me pointedly. “I swear if this is your way of telling me it’s my turn to take the trash out again, I’m going to order breadsticksanddessert.”

“It’s not the trash.”

“Then what is it?”

“Wow. You really don’t know, do you?” She sighs, and I smirk. “I’m hurt you wouldn’t remember this day.”

“Cooper…” she warns, crossing her arms over her chest. “You’re starting to test my patience.”

“What are you going to do about it? Tap your foot at me like you are now?”

“No. I’ll…I’ll…withhold sex.”

“Oh, taking a page out of my book now, huh?”

“Yes.”

I laugh, crossing the room to her, wrapping my arms around her waist.

“Come on, Care. Think. What happened about…say…six months ago?”

Her brows scrunch together as she thinks back. “Umm…we started dating?”

“Keep going.”

“Your favorite sports team won some fancy trophy?”

“Try again…”

She growls. “Ugh. I don’t know. Nothing is sticking out to me. I—”

It hits her.

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