Bad Penny Author:Staci Hart Nothing good comes after the third date. Date three is the crucial point when things get real, which is exactly why I bounce out the door, twiddling my fingers at whatever poor boy I?ve left behind. Because if I stick around, one of three things will happen: he?ll profess his undying love, he?ll get weird and stalky, or I?ll go crazy. Like, Sid... more » and Nancy crazy. Like, chase-him-through-the-streets-begging-him-to-love-me crazy. Seriously, it?s better for everyone this way. So when I meet Bodie, I figure it?ll be the same as it ever was. It doesn?t matter that he doesn?t put a single string on me. Doesn?t matter that he?s funny and smart and jacked or that he can play my body like a grand piano. Because even though I?m built for love, love has only carved me up like a Christmas ham. Resistance is something I can only hang on to for so long, and he has persistence in spades. But my heart isn?t as safe as I want to believe, and neither is his. And the second I ignore my cardinal rule is the second I stand to lose him forever.« less