Chapter 48

If it hadn’t been for her mom’s friends calling her up, egging her on to fill the missing fourth spot for a game, Jocelyn would’ve totally lost it.

“Man, I’m so sorry, my mom is just…” Jocelyn didn’t even know how to explain it.

Harrison chuckled shaking his head, “I get it. Honestly, it’s pretty much the same drill when I head home.”

“You get the marriage nudge too?”

“Yep.”

Jocelyn let out a soft sigh, “Same world, same kind of moms

“There’s something I’m not sure if I should ask,” Harrison glanced at Jocelyn.

“What’s up?”

“That guy the other day, he wasn’t your boyfriend, right?” Harrison quickly added, “If it’s not cool to answer, just let it be.”

Jocelyn pursed her lips, then cracked a smile, “Nope, he wasn’t.”

Harrison frowned slightly but knew better than to pry further. He didn’t peg Jocelyn as someone without scruples, and that dude didn’t look like he was tied down. Maybe they just didn’t get the parental thumbs up?

After Harrison walked a bit further, his phone rang.

“Sorry, gotta take this call. Harrison answered, called out ‘Mom’, and then wore a look of someone being schooled. Clearly, he wasn’t brushing her off, but he looked pretty helpless

After hanging up. Harrison shook his phone helplessly. That was my mom, setting me up on a blind date. Looks like I’ve gotta rush to it right after my plane lands tomorrow.”

Jocelyn’s mouth dropped open in surprise, and she said sympathetically. “Well, then I just gotta wish you luck.”

Harrison chuckled, “Why’s that?”

blind dates, right?” Jocelyn said, “Only way

your good luck

checked the time – smack in

she said, You’re heading out tomorrow, so let me show you some hospitality. How about I

“Barbecue? In this

or cold,” Jocelyn glanced at her phone. The reviews for this place online are pretty solid.

“Sure.”

at the barbecue restaurant to

a spot just as

the

you’d be sweating buckets with just one bite.

to try a slice of meat on Jocelyn’s encouragement. Instantly, his eyes teared up

grabbed him a

embarrassingly, ‘So humiliating.”

all Totally normal.

tackle the spicy meat without batting an eye. Harrison

glutton for punishment but also a masochist for the

on some steps, pale as

some medicine liquid, and handed him a bottle, ‘Drink

would’ve downed arsenic if it promised to ease the fire

it did relieve his stomach discomfort.

said, “Sorry for making you take care of

be the

you.” Harrison said, bent over taking deep

arguing now was pointless, “Wanna head to the hospital

reassuring Jocelyn as he leaned against

a girl from here or train

training, and you’re

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