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“Her favorite what? You can’t be her favorite. She’s my employee.”

“Her favorite Hunter brother.”

“You’re ridiculous.” But I couldn’t stop smiling.

“You missed me.”

I nodded. “I did.”

Rob rubbed his hands together. “So does this mean you’re not going to be upset if I hook up with a hot student too? Because I was definitely planning on doing that. Wait, how does the school feel about your relationship with Penny?”

“Not great. Isabella broke the story before I could talk to the dean. Did you see all those news vans out there? Some of my other female students claimed I hit on them too after the story broke. Just so they could get As. It’s all such a mess. I had to resign.”

“Shit, really? I’m sorry, man. I know you really liked this job.”

I shrugged. “I like her more.”

“Yeah, no wonder.” He tried to peer around my shoulder to check Penny out so I hit him in the back of the head.

“Ow.” He rubbed his head. “What was that for?”

“You know what it’s for. Why are you flirting with her?”

“I always flirt with whoever you’re dating. It’s my thing.”

Was it though? “You never flirted with Isabella.”

He pretended to throw up. “Clarification. I flirt with yourhotgirlfriends. And Isabella is a troll. But Penny’s gorgeous. High-five, man.” He lifted his hand.

I couldn’tnothigh-five him. I felt like I’d won the lottery with Penny.

Rob stared at me. “It’s weird.” He cocked his head to the side.

“What’s weird?”Stop looking at me like that.

“I almost forgot what you looked like when you smiled.”

I swallowed hard.Yeah. Me too. I looked back over at Penny. She was taking a huge bite of pizza. And something about it made me laugh.

“You’ve got it bad,” Rob said.

“Yeah. I really do.” I turned back to him. “Did Ian tell you anything when he let you in?”

“Nope. He asked me a lot of questions about Jen though. Is there something going on between them?”

“I don’t think so.” Honestly I had no idea though. And I wanted to talk more about that. But there were more pressing matters. “Penny doesn’t know about Ian. Or any of the cameras installed around the apartment.”Except the one in the elevator now. And I was pretty sure she’d assumed that had been installed by the building manager, not me. “So please don’t mention anything about it to her.”

“You have cameras all over the apartment? Okay, psycho.”

“It’s a security system.”

“Sure it is.”

“It is,” I said.

“So you don’t rewatch footage of the two of you hooking up on the couch?” He gestured to the couch we were standing next to.

“No.”

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