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“You don’t?” He looks puzzled.

I purse my lips and shake my head. “Nope. I know exactly what this is. I’m your nanny. I work for you. In turn, you’ll give me some dating tips. And that’s that. I don’t expect anything else.”

“You don’t?” he asks again.

“No.”

He scrunches his brows as if he was expecting a totally different reaction.

“Are we good here?” I push myself out of the seated position to stand up.

“Yeah,” he says, following suit. “We’re good here.”

“Great.” I plaster on a smile and leave him to his thoughts.

Maddie sees me approaching, and she and Liam take the next ten minutes to give me a walk-through of their now super-expansive and detailed castle.

“Do you think it’s missing anything?” Maddie steps aside, looking at it.

I stare down at it.

“Yeah… the people living in it.”

Liam and Maddie both give each other a quick look just as Parker dumps out a bunch of shells.

“These are people,” he announces.

“Yes!” Maddie says. “Great work, Park.”

The trio gets busy adding the people to the castle, and I glance back at Joshua, who’s now helping Keelan with the food. He must sense me looking at him because he turns to meet my gaze.

But all I can do is look away.

Chapter 12

Joshua

“Ifeel like we just broke up and we weren’t even dating,” I say to Keelan. He flips another burger and gives me a side long glance. “What?”

“That is called drawing a line in the sand, my friend. How does it feel to have someone set boundaries with you?”

“Like shit,” I admit.

“Welcome to adulthood.” He flips some more burgers.

I lean into him, “Is that what you and Rina are doing? Drawing a line in the sand?”

His jaw ticks and I know I’ve struck a nerve. “We don’t have to draw a line… we aren’t anything.”

“Not right now…”

“Not ever… and we never will be.”

“But you want to?”

He looks at me straight on. “No.”

I throw my hands up, “Oh, come on, Lando. Come clean already. What is this tension between the two of you?”