Cate: I thought we banned that word.
Alex: YOU two don’t have to say it. I happen to like the word.
Cate: It’s like when you’re reading a romance book and they use the word ‘folds’. It’s not origami!
Blair: I think we’re getting off track here.
Alex: Back to you gushing about the twin you didn’t know about. Is he handsome? Muscly? Does he look like he could wield an axe and chop wood while shirtless?
Cate: Alex!
Alex: What? It’s an important question.
Is he handsome? Yeah. Then again, that means I must think Case is too. But once I knew that Sutton was not Case, I could appreciate that he’s attractive–mainly because he’s not engaged to his soulmate.
Blair: He’s not what you’d expect for a mountain man rancher. Then again, Sutton works as a psychologist at my uncle’s hospital too. Case’s fiancée does too.
Cate: So, the hot twin (that’s what we’re going to call him now) might work with you too? This is turning out better than we could have hoped. It’s giving workplace romance, awkward/charming donkey incident meet-cute vibes.
Alex: Yes! I can see it now! Wait… does this mean there aren’t any other single mountain man brothers on this ranch for me and Cate?
God, I love my best friends.
Blair: Firstly, I’ve only just met the guy and you’re already trying to match us up? And secondly, I’m here to work and find my passion again.
Alex: That’s what we’re talking about. Maybe we were focusing on the wrong kind of passion… *winking emoji*
Blair: I meant my job, medicine, the hospital. My LIFE
Alex: And I mean that maybe the LACK of a life outside of your job, medicine, AND hospitals is what’s led to this thirty-three-year-young crisis you’re having.
Cate: I think she’s right, B.
I groan.
Blair: Not you too, C.
Cate: I’m not saying Sutton is your soulmate. You’ve only just met the guy, even if it WAS under memorable circumstances. But maybe you need something else in your life other than being a kickass doctor. Maybe a hobby?
Alex: Yeah, a hobby in the shape of a mountain man rancher/psychologist.
Cate: Or knitting?
Alex: Knitting isn’t going to get her a husband!
Blair: I have to live and work with him guys. Dating a colleague–one I’ve only just met, mind you–is not exactly conducive to a peaceful, stress-less life.
Cate: You have a point there.
Alex: OK, new plan. We won’t try to play matchmaker with you and the hot twin…
Blair: But?
Alex: BUT I want you to keep an open mind and not shut yourself off to the possibility that you might meet someone while you’re in the middle of nowhere, Alaska for the next six months. Whether that’s Sutton or someone else.
Cate: But saying he’ll replace your underwear is definitely a tick in the hot twin’s column.
Blair: I may have told him he could buy them as long as he didn’t expect to see me wearing them.
