Page 9 of Undeniable Love

“Those two.”

“Too easy,” Hailey crooned.

Meredith lifted her brows toward me, a challenge. “What are your thoughts?”

“On what? If they like each other?”

“No. How long have they been together? Will they last?” She leaned in and lowered her voice like we were in on a private joke together. “Has he been faithful?”

“Why isn’t she the one who could be unfaithful?”

“That’s easy.” She leaned back, scanned the floor, and pointed to another couple. They were sitting at a table with two other women. All laughing. The guy, too. “That girl is cheating on him.”

This was insanity. Absolute insanity. “There’s no way you know that.”

“And that guy at the table Caleb chose isn’t cheating on his girlfriend. Yet. I give them two more months.”

“Please.” I skewered Caleb with a look. Across the table, both Cameron and Dalton looked as amused as Meredith. “There’s no way. That guy? Totally into her.”

“For now. It won’t last.”

“What makes you say that just by looking?”

“I don’t know. But I can prove I’m right on at least one.”

“How?”

“Because girls talk about everything when they go to the restrooms.”

So we wait. I could do that. At that moment there was nothing more captivating than learning more about Meredith and spending one last night with Caleb before we went to our new homes.

Until then, I grabbed Cameron’s attention from across the table. “How’d you get lucky enough to be able to make it down here this weekend?”

“Didn’t make the playoffs and before you give me a pitiful, I’m sorry thing, don’t. After the season we’ve had, I needed the break.”

At twenty-two, he was in his fifth year as a quarterback at Notre Dame, starting the last three years. “You ready for the draft, then?”

“I should go in the first handful of picks. At least that’s what our agent says.”

“Glad you waited another year?”

He shrugged. “Mostly. It’ll be good to go to the draft with my degrees, but a part of me still wishes I had skipped out on the season. Especially with the injuries we had.”

Cameron was one of the top five college quarterbacks in the country, but their team had struggled this season. According to Caleb’s last update, Notre Dame had lost their two best running backs. Because of that, Cameron’s passing yards were the highest they’d ever been even if their record was the worst the team had seen in a decade.

“Your agent give you any indication on where you’ll end up?”

“There’s a bunch of NFL teams not doing as well as anyone expected, and there’s only a few weeks left. Right now it could go either way, but personally, I’m hoping for Denver. It’d be nice to be closer to home again. Hell, I’d take Kansas City even if I have to play backup for a couple years. Sounds like Arizona might be in play, too.”

“All of you together again, huh?”

He slid a frown toward Meredith. “If we could get her back there, then it’d be perfect.”

“Like hell,” Meredith chimed in.

“No desire to move back to Colorado?”

“Nope. Not until I start missing snow and I project that happening never.”

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