“So...date me.”

Wait...what?

“We’ll tell people we met when you came for your interview, and that we instantly connected and got to know each other online. And once you moved here, we took it to the next level.”

The next level?

“I mean a relationship—like dating,” she said quickly. “Not that level.”

“I’ve already figured out that conversations with you are an adventure, but you lost me on this one. I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“You and me, pretending we’re a couple until everybody gets to know you.”

Callan blinked. “That’s not a thing people really do, Molly. In movies, maybe, but not in real life.”

“Somebody must have done it or they wouldn’t have known it was a thing that could be a movie plot.”

Would every conversation with this woman be this utterly ridiculous? “We’ve never been attacked by aliens or survived a zombie apocalypse, but they’ve managed to make quite a few movies about them.”

“We’ve never been attacked by aliens that you know of,” she corrected. Then she shook her head sharply, as if to wipe the thoughts out of her head. “Anyway, back to us being a fake couple so you’re not single anymore.”

“We could never pull that off.”

She grinned. “Of course we could.”