other and leaving him alone.
“I like sex, and I love people. Why do you have to label it, Derrick? Some
homophobia going on in what passes for that brain of yours?” Dylan taunted.
“Yeah, I’m homophobic,” Derrick sneered. “Get away, oooh, you’re scaring me.”
“Asshole.”
“Hey, twin schmucks, hello? Remember me? I came for some advice. And if the best
you have is bag and tag her, Dylan, I guess I’ll have to listen to Derrick.”
The horror on Dylan’s face was priceless. “Okay, forget I said that. You have a thing
for this woman, right?”
Suddenly uncomfortable, Gage shrugged. “I guess.”
Derrick scoffed. “You guess? You’ve been trying to summon up the guts to ask her
out for over six months! And you all but stalked her, talking up her friends, her
coworkers and her realtor, for God’s sake.”
“How the hell do you know that?”
“I used to date Amanda, and she mentioned you’d been asking about that house on
Delcourt.”
“Bullshit. I said hi to Amanda the other day, but I looked up the listing info online.
You’re the one with a thing for Hailey’s friend. That’s right,” he said as Derrick frowned.
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“I saw you eyeing her like a piece of candy. And I didn’t want to say anything then, but
you had one hell of a boner while staring her way.”
Dylan smirked, and Derrick shoved at Gage’s chair with his foot, making him almost
fall over. “So, you two are in quite a tangle, eh? Gage wants the blonde, and you the
redhead. But at least Gage knows his heart’s desire.”
“‘Heart’s desire?’ Who the hell talks like that?” Gage shook his head.
“Men who get lucky, that’s who. Instead of acting like a coarse laborer who doesn’t
know his left from his right—”
“Which he is,” Derrick muttered.
“—act with some couth and compliment the woman, and on more than her tits and
