Romancing the Grump (Appies, #4)

by Jenny Proctor

let’s talk about Lucy,” Dumbo says around a bite of pizza, and I force my gaze away from Nathan to answer him. “Is she single?” I narrow my gaze. “Y’all are giving me a complex. We’re identical twins, but you only want to know if Lucy is single? Should I assume I have a terrible personality and that’s why you aren’t asking about me?” The tips of Dumbo’s ears turn bright red, and his eyes widen. “Oh, uh—” His gaze shifts to Nathan for the briefest second before returning to me. “It’s just…you work for the team. That makes you off-limits.” Off-limits? “Um, pretty sure Parker told me there aren’t any rules against dating the players.” The last thing I want to do is give Dumbo the impression I’m into him, but this is the second time in five minutes that one of them has asked about Lucy without any curiosity about my own eligibility. And now they’ve branded me completely off-limits? “Right. Not like, official, on-the-books rules,” Dumbo says, but I can tell he’s equivocating. “It’s more just one of the Appies rules. That the guys have.” Huh. Still not tracking. “Didn’t Parker work for the team before she started dating Logan?” Dumbo clears his throat, looking around at his teammates like he’s hoping for help. He’s really squirming now, but he’s the one who started this conversation, so I feel zero regret for pushing him. “Right, well…she knew Logan before,” he finally says. “So, that was different.” “Totally different,” Alec adds. “Logan got a pass because they were friends bef...