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for the guy she really set me up with who got appendicitis.”
    “He should have come anyway. It wouldn’t have been the first date you spent in the ER.”
    “Ugh, did you have to bring that up?” Early last year, one of her dates had broken his finger trying to impress her with a handstand in the parking lot of the movie theater he’d taken her to. She’d ended up sitting with him in an overcrowded ER waiting for X-rays and a splint.
    “I could have assisted in the surgery and shared his Jell-O with him in recovery. It would have been romantic.”
    “So this guy was worse than F inger G uy?”
    “This guy was your photographer, believe it or not.”
    “Max? I thought the guy Cassie fixed you up with was named John.”
    “That’s A ppendix G uy. Max is her cousin.”
    “Yeah, I know. He’s really nice. I mean , really nice and good-looking.”
    Audrey tried not to dwell on the good-looking part, the part where she’d almost drowned in his eyes. “Okay, he’s good-looking, but he must reserve the nice for his customers.”
    Harper eyed her sidelong as they stopped for a traffic light. “You didn’t censor yourself, did you?”
    “What? How is this my fault? He was constantly cracking jokes, making snide remarks. He even told me he was married. I almost choked on my omelet.”
    “Is he married?”
    “Then he said he wasn’t. I assume he was kidding, but who knows? He had me so confused, I didn’t know which way was up. I wasn’t sure whether to kiss him or slap him.”
    Harper smirked. “You considered kissing him?”
    “I did…” Uh-oh. She hadn’t wanted to mention that at all. The thought of it made her stomach flip around and her knees a little weak. “He kissed me.”
    “Details!”
    “Just a little bit. It was more like he whispered something really close to my mouth and…” God, her skin suddenly felt two sizes too small, and parts of her body tingled that she’d forgotten could tingle.
    “I need to pull over. I’m burning up from curiosity.” Harper fanned her face. “What did he whisper into your mouth?”
    “Not into…all right, he said I was damn near perfect.”
    “Oh, God. Audrey, that’s so hot!”
    “It’s not. It was a prelude to him telling me he wanted to have sex with me.”
    Harper hit the brake. “Miss Desmond. I thought we had a deal that all succulent details would be shared within two hours of the end of a date unless said date resulted in a sleepover of the boy/girl persuasion.”
    Audrey rubbed her aching forehead. “There were no succulent details. I kicked him out, and that was that.”
    Harper stared at her. “I’m missing something here. How do you go from a guy telling you you’re perfect and wanting to sleep with you to kicking him out in a snowstorm?”
    “Harper, we met at seven - thirty last night. It was like nine o’clock when I shoved him out the door. Should I really have jumped in the sack with him? Clearly, he was putting me on. He just wanted to get a reaction out of me. I don’t think he took me seriously for one second. Cassie dragged him into the date because John couldn’t make it, and he was just fooling around, killing time.” That admission stung, and despite her best efforts, Audrey’s throat tightened just a bit. She would have liked the sexy sentiment Max expressed when he’d almost kissed her to be real, but how could it have been? He was trouble, and she had to get him out of her mind because a guy like that could break hearts.
    “So you don’t think he meant what he said?”
    “Come on? How could he? You can’t tell someone’s perfect in ninety minutes. He was messing around because I hurt his feelings when I called him the ‘understudy.’ The guy’s a player, and he played me very well. He had me going for twenty-four glorious seconds where I thought I might just start pulling his clothes off, but then I got over it and chucked his wise ass out the door. Now I’m done. That was horrifying date number twenty,