Chapter 364

Ron invited me to dinner, and it hit me—Hayden had mentioned the exact same thing earlier when I was getting my blood drawn.

At the time, I thought he was just messing with me, trying to distract me. Turns out, he wasn't kidding.

"It's Mr. Shane?" Hayden asked, like he already knew.

"Yeah," I said, eyeing him suspiciously. "Did you tell him to ask me?"

Hayden was Ron's boss, so it wouldn't take much for Ron to follow orders.

Hayden frowned a little. "No."

I shot him a sarcastic smile, totally convinced he was covering his real identity.

"He told me in advance," Hayden added, trying to clarify.

But was that really it? I wasn't in the mood to dig deeper. Free dinner? I wasn't about to pass that up. I smirked. "I said yes. You coming too?"

"Yeah," he replied, in that classic Hayden way. Seriously, if someone made a list of his most-used words, "yeah" would totally top it.

But then he dropped the line that made me roll my eyes: "I don't make a habit of letting my girlfriend have