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Austin shook his head slowly. “A little turned on, to be honest.” He liked that she wasn’t being coy about her achievements. She sounded pretty kick-ass to him.
She laughed. “Not happening, Officer Cooper.”
He didn’t answer, just pushed the button and revved the engine as it gunned to life. “Let’s go burn some rubber.”
CHAPTER SIX
“So? Why Credence?”
Beatrice glanced away from the Farewell from Credence sign they’d just passed to take in Austin. She’d been trying to pretend he and his flirty eyes and his flirty tongue and his flirty pie and his very flirty a little turned on, to be honest weren’t sitting so damn close. Even staring out her window, though, he was still a tempting hunk of man in her peripheral vision. The temptation level increased a hundredfold when she was looking right at him.
“Would you believe the throw of a dart?” she replied.
He laughed, and it was rich and deep and also flirty. Okay, maybe it wasn’t. That was probably just her reading too much into everything.
“No way.”
“Yes way.” Beatrice nodded. “I threw a dart at a map, and it landed on Credence.”
“So you’re telling me that of all the places in the continental United States, the dart hit Credence?”
“Well…eventually, yes.”
He quirked an eyebrow in her direction. “Eventually?”
“The process was a little more convoluted than that.”
“Oh, this sounds good.” He laughed. “Convoluted how?”
“Well, see, I drew a big red ring around all the central states because I wanted to go to a small town and get away from as many people as possible because, frankly, people suck.”
He nodded. “They really do.”
Bea supposed she was preaching to the choir with an officer of the law. “Then I enlarged that part of the map up until it was about three feet by three feet and stuck it to my wall and threw a dart at it.”
“And the dart eventually landed on Credence? So, what… You kept throwing until you hit something that sounded okay?”
“No.” She shot him a withering look. “First, it took me several throws to actually hit the map.” The first one hadn’t even made the wall, and the second one hit the wall sideways. It took a few more after that to get the dart on the map, as several small holes in her wall could attest.
He laughed again. “What?”
“It was late,” she huffed. “I’m not exactly the most coordinated person in the world, and there may have been alcohol involved.”
“Sounds like you’ll be perfect for the Credence darts team.”
Credence has a darts team? “Credence has a darts team?”
Austin laughed harder. “I’m just messing with you.”
“Oh, I see, baiting the city girl, huh?” Feigning insult, Bea returned her attention to the window. “For that, you don’t get the rest of the story.”
“Okay, okay. No more city-girl baiting, I promise.”
Bea pressed her lips together so she wouldn’t smile as she kept her gaze firmly trained on the flat landscape whizzing by.
“Come on, Beatrice, spill. You know you want to.”
And hell if she wouldn’t have told him she’d seen aliens at Roswell if he’d asked. “Fine.” She rolled her head to look at him again. “When I did start hitting the map, many of my throws landed in areas where there wasn’t a town, while others landed between two towns or just outside a town.”
