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yourselves, boys.” A quick smile in Coop’s direction and she was gone.
    “Jesus. What’s up with her?” Kyle set his beer down and stared intently at Coop.
    “What do you mean?” Coop blurted out. “Nothing’s up with her, that I know of. Why would something be up with her?”
    Kyle arched a brow. “She usually just greets me with a list of shit I need to do around the house. Suddenly it’s all tackle hugs and she’s so glad I’m home? I was gone four days, not four years.”
    Coop cleared his throat and glanced over his friend’s shoulder. “I don’t know. I guess she’s having some issues with all the changes. First your dad, then you, and that crazy-ass friend of hers left town today. So, it’s a lot for her to deal with I guess.”
    “That’s one hell of an analysis, Dr. Phil. How long were y’all down here before I came?”
    “Like five minutes,” Coop lied, before changing the subject. “Where the hell have you been? I know it doesn’t take you five hours to check one lawn.”
    “No it doesn’t.” Kyle gave him a smug grin before taking another swig from the silver can. “That part only took about twenty minutes.”
    Coop knew the look in his buddy’s eyes. He could tell when Kyle Mason was smitten. “How’d you manage to meet a girl at college already? You’ve been there for like three seconds.”
    “Didn’t meet her there.”
    Coop wondered if the love-drunk look on Kyle’s face as he shook his head was the same one he tried to hide around Ella Jane. And if he did as shitty of a job of hiding it as his buddy did.
    “Don’t tell me some bored, rich housewife threw herself at you again.” Coop laughed.
    “That happened one time, and if her face hadn’t been full of Botox, I might have taken a crack at her,” Kyle joked, sitting down and leaning back to rest his forearms on the ground. He glanced up and then let out a sigh of contentment. “This girl was not some bored housewife. Not even close.”
    “No? So no pissed off husband will be hunting you down anytime soon?”
    “Nope.” Kyle smirked. “No boyfriend either. She made that perfectly clear.”
    Coop grinned. “Was this before or after you bagged her?”
    Kyle sat up straighter and turned to face Coop. “Before, considering that hasn’t happened…yet.”
    “Aw man, you like this one? What happened to living it up at OSU? And what about all those college girls you and I were gonna—”
    “Hey, jackass, just because you bag ’em and tag ’em doesn’t mean I have to. I can’t help it if you haven’t found one worth getting to know.” Kyle shrugged and polished off his beer.
    “Oh and you have?” Coop asked, still suspicious. “Just last week you were trying to get Mackenzie Watson to go for a ride with you.”
    “Things change. I may have found one I want to do more than take a ride with.”
    Coop didn’t respond right away. Just opened another beer and stared at the water. “So tell me about your weekender? She worth the ninety-mile drive home? And here I thought you came all this way to spend time with me.” He faked a hurt look at his friend.
    “She might be,” Kyle admitted.
    Coop could see it all over his friend’s face that there was something different about this one. Because whatever was going on, Kyle was keeping it to himself.
    “Don’t worry, buddy.” He reached over, patting Coop on the back. “You’ll find a girl like that someday.”
    “Yeah, I’m not gonna hold my breath.” Coop snorted. His chest tightened at his own lie. He’d found one all right. He’d spent his entire life getting to know her. He just also knew he couldn’t have her.
    He’d always been honest with his best friend. Well, except for last summer when Ella Jane accidentally hit her brother’s truck when he was teaching her how to drive. He’d taken the blame then, said it was his dumb ass not paying attention. And here he was, lying again.
    “I’m just glad my sister isn’t dating,” Kyle