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to the edge of her chair, resting her chin on the back of her hands. “So, you’re a creep and a homicidal maniac?”
    Wiping the corner of his eyes with his thumbs, he glanced at her with a carefree, mischievous smile. Mama mia, the combination of those oh-too-serious blue-green eyes glinting with humor and a lopsided trouble-seeking grin just about melted her panties right off.
    “No on the first and not yet on the second. How about we try this again and forget all preconceived notions and any advice from friends?”
    There was something about Jason, the sincerity in his voice, along with the whole panty-melting ability, that intrigued Cherry. Also, she was starving and looking forward to Jorge’s enchiladas, ones almost as good as his mom’s—and she should know, as she’d been eating them her whole life. So he’d get a second chance. She studied him for a few moments and then stuck out her hand. “Hi, I’m Cherry Ryan, and thanks for saving me from having a date with a drunk.”
    “Coming to the aid of a beautiful lady? Definitely my pleasure. However, I get the feeling you’re more the kick-ass-I’ll-do-it-myself heroine than a damsel-in-distress. Am I wrong?” Jason cocked his brow almost as if he dared her to deny it.
    “If I had a choice, I’d much rather be Black Widow than Sleeping Beauty. What would that make you? Not Prince Phillip, although he did slay Maleficent for Aurora. Would you slay the beast to save your true love?”
    “Luckily, I believe all of the dragons are now extinct and we’ll never have to find out.”
    She studied him over the rim of her glass. No, the prince was too Goody Two-Shoes for this guy. Jason wouldn’t play by the rules. He might have looked like the boy next door, but those laughing eyes and that scruff along his jawline firmly planted him as a rebel. “Ah, I don’t know why I didn’t see it right away. Iron Man.”
    Jason sat up straight, tilted his head and looked at her. “No way. Captain America is cooler.”
    Now, that was funny. So funny her laughter turned to wheezing as she tried to catch her breath. “Sorry, but no. I mean he’s cute and all righteous and heroic. But Tony Stark has it all: hot, I mean smoking hawt, rich, witty, intelligent, and he takes on gods. Hard to top that.”
    They argued for a few more minutes, neither conceding.
    “Baseball. Red Sox or Yankees?” Jason asked.
    “Duh, Sox. Please don’t say Yankees or they might refuse to serve us dinner.”
    “Are you kidding? The Sox are going to stomp all over those posers.”
    “Whew.” Cherry mock wiped sweat off her brow. “You had me worried for a moment.”
    They steered clear of topics like family and work and the show. They could save those for their second date. Whoa, now that got her attention. Most of the guys she’d met in the past year she hadn’t wanted to spend five minutes with. Thankfully he dropped the topic of her time in Hollywood. She’d prefer to forget she’d ever been on the show. If she had a super power it would be to turn back time. She would have never let Tawny talk her into the idea of finding her soul mate, the one guy who above all others could and would connect with her on a deeper level to accept her for who she truly was, warts and all, on a reality show.
    She pushed the maudlin thoughts away to focus on the man in front of her, because while she no longer believed her Prince Charming existed, Jason Valentine wasn’t the toad she’d initially believed him to be.
    “You and David have been friends since you were kids?”
    “Yeah, it’s always been the three of us.”
    “Three?” Crud, this was why she should stay focused.
    “Brody?” His brow arched as his voice lifted at the end of the name. “Anyway, it’s always been Dave, Brody, and me. What one didn’t think of the other did, and we thought of a lot of things that got us in trouble. We were always together. Made it easy for our parents to find us. We’ve been friends since the

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