“You—you didn’t know?” Josh asked, staring at me in disbelief.
“Know what exactly? I’m confused. What charity auction?”
Cooper exchanged glances with Josh before he spoke. “The one we’re doing in collaboration with Duke’s Sanctuary? Did you really not know? How the hell did your name end up on the bachelor’s list?”
“What list?” I grumbled.
Josh pulled his phone out and typed something before he showed a page on the fire department website. My name was among a bunch of others as bachelors being sold for the evening.
“The fuck?” I yelled.
“You didn’t know? How is that possible?” Cooper said.
I shrugged.
“Beats me. I spent my days off with my daughter. I don’t know how the hell that happened.”
Although now that I thought about it, I’d seen the auction poster in Samir’s bookstore yesterday. And Enzo was there. Was it possible he had something to do with it?
Nah. It couldn’t be. I’d barely noticed the poster, how could have Enzo when he’d been too busy cooing at Ella and poking fun at me and my attraction to Samir?
Then again, stranger things had happened.
Just to be on the safe side, I pulled my phone out and dialed my friend’s number and filled my mouth with more ramen.
“He-hello,” Enzo croaked out after a few seconds.
“Hey. It’s me. Were you sleeping? Did I wake you?”
Enzo sighed.
“Definitelynotsleeping.”
“Ew. Gross, dude. I don’t need to know when you’re banging my brother.” I groaned, and both Cooper and Josh chuckled.
“You asked,” Enzo said.
“I didn’t actually. Anyway, sorry to interrupt your riding lessons, but… did you, by any chance, sign me up for the bachelor auction?”
“What? Me? No,” he said a little too fast for my liking.
“Enzo!” I shouted.
“It was Mom’s idea,” he said.
“And mine,” I heard Carson say in the background.
“And okay, I called Grayson to let him know.”
I choked on the noodles and put the fork down again.
“You called my chief?”
“Oh yeah. He was really sweet.”
I laid back on the couch and closed my eyes, trying not to lose my composure.
“You guys. What the actual fuck?” I yelled.
