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“A boyfriend, huh?” The fire in Cash’s eyes reached her from several feet away, and her stomach somersaulted.
“Okay, I’m gonna go.” She paused just before entering the hallway that led to the foyer. “You’ll be okay here, really? How often do you have to take those pills?”
“I got a momma just down the road,” he said. “I’ll be fine.”
Lark glared at him for one more minute, and he gave her attitude right back when he raised his eyebrows. She said, “Fine,” and stalked toward the door.
His bootsteps came after her, but she didn’t slow down as she crossed the porch and went down the steps to her car.
“Drive safe,” Cash called after her.
Lark didn’t know what kind of response he expected. She wrenched open the back door and threw her books on the seat. She faced him and lifted her hand in a polite wave, a small smile even touching her lips.
“You too,” she said. “As in, not right now. Probably should wait a little longer before you get behind the wheel of a car.”
He waved back and then receded into the house and closed the door behind him. For some reason, that made Lark seethe as she got behind the wheel.
“You too,” she muttered to herself. She didn’t care if this man drove safe, and as she set off down the Apple Highway leading south, the gorgeous Cash Young danced through her mind.
She’d just reached Coral Canyon and was turning onto the highway that would take her west to Jackson, when her phone rang. Jet’s name sat on the screen of her car, and she tapped to answer the call.
“Hey,” she said. “I’m on my way to Idaho now.”
“Yeah, I just talked to Cash,” Jet said. “And he says you have a boyfriend in Idaho.”
“We’ve not heard of any boyfriend,” Wade yelled, his voice coming through on-speaker.
“Yeah,” Jet said. “We’ve not heard of any boyfriend, so you better get talking, sister.”
“Oh, brother.” Lark rolled her eyes even as she smiled, because her brothers lived in Texas, and what were they going to do about her boyfriend in Idaho?
The better question was, why had Cash told them she had one?
CHAPTER
FORTY-ONE
Adam Harmon had spent a lifetime preparing for his wedding day; he’d just never known it until now. He’d been assisting celebrities for a decade, and that meant that he always had every piece of clothing, every strand of hair, and every single thing, right down to his fingernails, exactly in the correct spot.
He stood in front of the full-length mirror in the groom’s suite at Silver Sage Mountain Lodge and Resort, only a half-hour until he needed to be outside in the amphitheater.
He turned around and faced his father. “Is my tie straight?” He lifted his chin so his father could help him, though Adam already knew that his pink, sparkly tie with the silver thread running through it sat absolutely right at his throat.
Still, his father had wanted to be involved, and Adam had sent him pictures of the shoes, the tuxedo, as well as his tie and vest, to help him feel involved in the process. He’d been staying here at the lodge for the past three nights, as had Adam. He didn’t get to see his family much, and he’d wanted to play interference between his mother and his father.
“It looks great,” his dad said.
Adam nodded and looked over to his brother-in-law, Paxman, and his brother, Ian. Both of the twins had come from down south, along with his mother, and Adam had tried to include all of them as much as possible. He’d always lived a separate life than them, though, especially since the divorce, so he really appreciated their efforts to be there for him.
Keeping the Youngs out would have been impossible.
He smiled over to where Harry, his best man and best friend, sat on the edge of the couch. His enormous cowboy hat hid most of his face as he looked at his phone. Bryce stood in the corner with Reggie, and the two of them were surely talking about something to deal with Bryce’s horse ranch.
Joey had wanted all of the cousins her age to feel as included as possible, and they’d all be walking in the wedding party.
Adam watched as Cash leaned over and showed Harry something on his phone. The two of them chuckled, and then Boston leaned in as well to see what they were laughing about. Adam liked all of the young men in the Young family, and he grinned as Cole snuck in the door, staying right by it to close it as silently as possible. His eyes flew back to Harry, who hadn’t missed the fact that Cole had snuck out ten minutes ago either.
He’d been dating a really pretty woman all summer, and rumors around the Country Quad men were that they might have a Christmas wedding on their hands. Adam wasn’t one to judge, because he felt like he and Joey had had a pretty quick relationship, though it had taken them over a year to go from first date to I-do.
