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Lexi looks back at me with wide eyes and a shrug of her shoulders.

“Okay. If that's what you want, then it’s a deal,” he says quietly.

Lexi jumps up from my lap. “Come on, Cam. Let’s go pick your game!”

Lexi, Cam, and Deacon disappear into the house.

“Very interesting.” Victoria squints. “Something is definitely going on there. Has Deacon said anything to you?” she asks Pauly.

He shakes his head. “Not much. Something about he ran into her getting coffee, and she seemed freaked out. I don’t know. Truth is, I’m only half listening when someone talks, babe.”

“Isn’t that the truth.” Victoria rolls her eyes.

“I’m putting twenty on my boy,” Pauly says.

“I’ll put twenty on Cam,” Tiny says.

“Why?” Pauly narrows his brow.

“I like an underdog.” Tiny grins.

Pauly shakes his head. “You want in, Boss?”

“Nah, I’ll sit this one out,” I say.

Deacon exits the house, and a minute later, Lexi comes bounding out with Cam in tow, looking less than amused.

“She picked her game!” Lexi cheers.

Everyone starts to clap and holler.

Victoria yells, “What game did you pick, girl? The suspense is killing me!”

Cam brings the box around from her back and holds it out.

Deacon frowns. “Trivial Pursuit? You had all those games to choose from, and you chose Trivial Pursuit?”

Pauly speaks up, “Yeah, Cam, that game is pretty lame. Where's the fun in that?”

Lexi answers, “The fun in it for Cam is that she won’t lose. She's crazy smart, and no one that I know of has ever beat her at any sort of trivia game. Seriously, she's a genius. She probably has a photographic memory or some shit. This girl remembers everything.”

“Ah, damn. I want to change my bet!” yells Pauly.

Victoria hits him on the arm. “You can’t change your bet. You went with D. Sorry, baby.” She leans in and lays a noisy kiss on his pouting lips.

Lexi sits beside Cam, and the two face Pauly and Deacon who sit across the table. From what Lexi has told me, the friendship between her and Cam has been strained as of late. I’m glad this little competition can bring them together.

Deacon grins as he sets up the game.

“What color pie do you want?” Cam asks him.

“Doesn’t matter.”

“Okay, you can be blue. I’ll be pink.”

The game begins, and Cam asks Deacon the first question. “Okay, what Mississippi novelist’s memoir,One Writer’s Beginnings, inspired Mary Chapin Carpenter’s song, ‘Halley Came to Jackson’?”

Victoria starts to laugh before whispering something to Pauly.

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