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Over the course of the past week, they’d talked about a few things, and one of the each other to friends and fairlfriend?" she’d asked a bit skeptically

"Of course," he’d answered, trying not to sound as terrified as the thought had ht that far ahead when he’dholed up in her apart her in his bed all week, the entire thing felt a bit surreal still But it didn’t get ues as his girlfriend andher friends and faret this But once he heard her introduce hiuys as her boyfriend, as weird as it felt, he was glad they’d had that conversation

Fortunately, Brandon had one less thing to worry about when it cauez had been sent out of state to cover for another sergeant He’d be gone at least a h Brandon was very hard-nosed about the rules being followed at work and Rodriguez’s co to risk his job were off the charts stupid, Brandon’s reaction had been a bit over the top So while he’d had no intention of keeping his relationship with Regina a secret fro forward to that conversation with Rodriguez

To his relief, Regina had been right about one thing His not having friends in his life was not for lack of personality and being able to hold a conversation with so her in his life and even staying in his place than he’d ever i, Brandon started to slip out of bed to go make her coffee Asthat s on the receiving end of Regina’s grateful and breathtaking s to understand what the allure was for her daddy and possiblyher happy and taking care of her had quickly become his first priority It was the weirdest pheno was so , and this entire past week had been proof of that He’d never felt as satisfied as when he saw that content s by the chair where she’d left it, and it woke her Frowning, he walked over to pick it up and bring it to her He glanced at the name on the screen C Devereux

"Your friend Chris fro sure she knew he remembered what the "C" stood for

Her eyes widened, and she took the phone but didn’t answer hi that uy But she offered nothing, so he had to ask "Aren’t you gonna answer?"

Looking up at hie her mind and answered the phone instead "Hey, Chris" She sot it Thank you sois fine I meant to call and thank you, but this week has been so crazy it totally slippedat her telling this guy hoeet it was of hio out of their way to do sweet things for her? This was exactly why he didn’t believe for a second that uy sends her a book, and she never responds Can’t he take a hint? He has to follow up and call her and pretend he orried because she hadn’t bothered to call hi to like this old friend of hers, if, in fact, that’s all they’d ever been

"In a feeeks? Yes, I’d like that We can do coffee or dinner or so to start this shit She had to know that unless she was planning on bringing Brandon along for that coffee or dinner with this guy this would never work Panic crept in his had been so perfect all week Even when he’d brought up Antonio and her relationship with hietting into an arguin to hide what he was feeling

"No," she said, her voice going a little strange "I have had lanced up at Brandon and cleared her throat, sitting up a little as he struggled to relare at her Very teood to hear froain, thank you soup and s?"

"To get you coffee," Brandon said with no intention of letting her brush the subject of her friend away again as she’d done before "Your friend’s gonna be in town?"

She nodded, bringing her legs to the side of the bed "In a feeeks"

"And you two are getting together?"

"Most likely," she said, getting up He reached his arm out to help, but she motioned that she had it

She hadn’t worn the splint all day yesterday, and she was actually walking on her ankle now She said it didn’t hurt to step on it anymore, but Brandon had still warned her to take it easy