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actually have boats.”
    “Oh yeah, Lake Mead is huge. Sandy beaches and everything. Just like home, right?”
    “I don’t know about that.”
    When Blade said we were headed to a dam, I can’t say was thrilled. Once we got there, I understood why a water obstruction could be an actual tourist attraction. It looked like a space ship had been lodged in between the rock and the water, with an endless stream of cars from what seemed like all fifty states and some of the Canadian provinces snaking through.
    The Dam straddles Nevada and Arizona, in different time zones and Blade made me giggle by dragging us back and forth. “It’s eleven! It’s Noon! We’ve gone back in time! Now we’re in the future. Or is it the present?”
    I didn’t know anymore either. We took pictures of ourselves on our phones in both states.
    When we finished at the Dam, we drove back into Boulder City. The main street was like a step back in time, with old storefronts and touristy shops. Blade and I wandered along, stopping into old record stores and gift shops full of trinkets. In one called “Memories” or “Memoirs,” I admired a gold scarf with a floral pattern and long fringe, but it was as much as a day’s tips at my mom’s restaurant. I tucked it back onto the rack with a sigh.
    “I’ll catch up with you down the street,” Blade said a few minutes later.
    I nodded and went into another shop filled with postcards and gaudy magnets, but I didn’t see anything I liked. Back outside, the hot air hit me like a slap in the face and I fanned myself as I strolled toward the next store.
    “There you are.” Blade bumped me with his hip to get my attention, and then pulled a paper bag from behind his back and handed it to me.
    I opened it and gasped. The gold scarf. “You didn’t have to do this. I love it!” I hugged him then wound the scarf around my neck.
    “It’s totally you, and it will look pretty with your hair,” he said as if he needed to justify his purchase.
    We stopped for lunch at the A & W outside of town. I ordered a hot dog and root beer float. Blade insisted on buying. We headed back to Vegas once we were finished eating and arrived back at the hotel just after five.
    “Thanks for everything today. I had a wonderful time.” I didn’t want to see our date end. Blade was just so sweet.
    “I hope I can see you again before you go back home.” He opened my car again.
    “I keep trying to think of ways I can stay.”
    “It might be easier than you think.” He kissed me on the forehead before he got back in the car, smiling at me as he drove away.
    Could I really make it happen? The only exciting thing that had ever happened to me on the Vineyard was meeting Tristan, and he was here now.
    And if I kept seeing Blade, there was a good chance I would fall for him. Hard.

Chapter Six
    “You’re never going to believe this!” Keisha hardly let me get back in the room before she ambushed me with her news. “Someone left an envelope for us at the front desk. There are two passes for Immortal Dilemma tonight!”
    My mouth dropped. “Who do you think left them?”
    “Tristan, of course. They’re all access passes, Callie. Who else could do it?”
    “But how did he find us?” Shifting from my mellow afternoon with Blade to the chaos that swirled around Tristan was a shock to my system. Sure, he knew I was in the city, but that was it. “What about Janelle and Amanda tonight?”
    “Who cares, and who cares?” Keisha paced back and forth in the tiny room. “You’re going to see him again. Tonight. They can figure out their own way. What are you going to wear?”
    After tearing everything out of my suitcase, and deflecting Keisha’s comments that it looked like I had brought my whole closet with me, I settled on a black minidress with flowing sheer sleeves.
    “Whoa. You look hot.” Keisha whistled and spun me around. She had picked out a one sleeved orange dress and gladiator sandals for herself.
    “I hope I