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she trips over her own feet getting to you. What happened with Ja’Nael?”
    “Her damn sense of right and wrong,” Brody replied matter of factually. “She believes we shouldn’t interact with each other outside of the classroom.”
    “It doesn’t sound so unreasonable to me,” Sheldon chimed in. “You barely know anything about her. So why is she so different from other woman?”
    “Do you mean besides being super gorgeous and intelligent with a killer body?” Brody questioned.
    “Yes.”
    Closing his eyes, Brody gathered his thoughts then reopened his eyes. “Man, I get this feeling when I see her. I know that I have only seen her a handful of times, but I can’t get her out of my head.”
    “It seems to me that this attraction you’re feeling is one-sided. Maybe Ja’Nael isn’t into tall, dumb white guys.”
    He glared at Sheldon who could have been a stand-in for the actor Idris Elba.
    “Shut up. I can tell she wants me. Her eyes get this dazed look in them, but she’s fighting the chemistry we have. So I’ve thought of a way to get her to know me without knowing it’s actually me doing it.”
    Sheldon shook his head and then eyed him as if he was crazy. “What are you talking about? You aren’t making any sense at all. How can Ja’Nael possibility get to know you without knowing it’s you?”
    Brody grabbed his beer and took a long swig before answering. “I overheard her talking to one of her friends about this dating website she was thinking about joining. So I’m going to get a membership and answer her personal ad. Why should she go out there into the cyber world looking for a man when I’m more than willing to get something going hot and heavy between us? I want her, and I’m not about to let another man get a chance at her.”
    “Brody, I’m not sure if this is a good idea,” his friend said with a slightly worried frown.
    Before Sheldon got married, he was the one pushing Brody to do things out of the box to get a woman’s attention at clubs. “I’m shocked,” Brody admitted. “I thought you would be all for this. Aren’t you the one constantly pushing me to have a life outside of raising Reid?”
    Sheldon nodded his head. “Yes, I am, when it comes to other things. But after what you told me about Ja’Nael’s relationship with your brother, do you really want to start out on this huge lie with her? Is it because she’s more challenging to you? I thought you liked to get pushed out of your Casanova comfort zone.”
    “Funny, stop calling me a Casanova. It makes me sound like an old man. No, I love that she’s so strong-willed. Her independence attracted me. I could see she was different the second I laid eyes on her at Shorty’s gas station all those years ago when she was a teenager. Despite how my brother was treating her, she had this courage about her. She captivated me then, but she was so much younger than me.
    “So I just pushed her to the back of my mind and then moved away for college. I thought about her once or twice over the years in passing, but I never thought our paths would cross again until I saw her coming out of the gas station a few days ago. She looked beautiful and every bit the confident woman I—”
    “God, you make me want to meet this woman,” his buddy cut in.
    “Why?”
    “Ja’Nael is the first woman that I can ever remember having you tied up in knots like this. You’re usually more self-confident when you go after a female, but not with her. I’m beginning to wonder if she’s the love of your life.”
    “I wouldn’t say she is anywhere near being the love of my life, but I find her very interesting and unique. She makes me want to know more about her. She keeps surprising me with different ways to turn me down. She stimulates me.”
    Sheldon chuckled. “Oh, I bet she stimulates a certain part of you. I can tell you really want her to be hands-on with it as well.”
    “Man, get your mind out of the dirt. I seriously think I