Cherry Picked

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Never ask your brother's best friend to... <em>pick your cherry.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When I asked Jack Wyatt to help me lose my pesky v-card I didn't expect him to keel over in shocked disapproval and nearly tumble us down a mountain.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>You might think a guy who's been reading romance novels his whole life would've figured out a smoother way to broach the subject but in my defense I've been pining for Jack for seven long years just waiting for him to notice me.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jack sees me as sweet shy Hawk Sunday: his Pride and Prejudice-obsessed hiking buddy; his dependable employee; the honorary little brother he's determined to protect not...</span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>deflower</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But to me Jack is everything a romantic hero should be: tall gorgeous kind and brilliant.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Or at least I </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>thought</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> he was brilliant... until he started getting so many things so boneheadedly wrong.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Like refusing to do the deflowering himself but also erm... blocking any other potential </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>plant-lovers</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> from getting all up in my garden.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And like continuing to see me as someone who needs protecting rather than a man who needs </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>possessing</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A man who's determined to get his cherry well and truly picked this summer whether Jack Wyatt likes it or not.</span></p><p><br></p>