CHAPTER 20

Peyton returned Sunnie’s sickly sweet smile with one of her own. “Well, Sunnie,” she said, “I just can't bring myself to think of it as romantic when dear Dale was already engaged to someone else.”

“But when it's love,” Starr simpered, “you just can't deny it.”

Peyton snorted again. “Love? Lust maybe.”

Starr pouted and Peyton had to stop herself from rolling her eyes. She hated it when women pulled that dumb-blonde bullshit. It just contributed to the mass of stereotypes and gave all women a bad name.

“You don't believe in love at first sight?” Butch asked.

“I was with Dale for two years,” Peyton said. “We were in love, or so I thought, and it certainly didn't happen at first sight.”

“What about you, Starr? Was it love at first sight?”

Starr squinched her nose up in that cute way that some women could. “Maybe not at first sight but it was definitely within the month.”

Peyton coughed into her hand. “Bullshit.”

“You don't believe her?” Sunni