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Bryce and Codi, who now held Savannah, stood with Reggie and Kassie and Adam, which made sense, as they were definitely some of the older ones. Cole joined Boston, and Harry noted the way Rosie narrowed her eyes at him, then pushed away from the table to go say something to him.
Wells hovered on the outskirts, and while he wasn’t a Young, and Harry wasn’t sure if he’d ever see him again, he went to make sure that he didn’t feel too lost and that he had a place to stand and someone to talk to.
“Hey,” he said, approaching the young man. He jumped practically out of his skin. “I’m Harry Young. You’re Corrine’s boyfriend, right?”
“Yes,” Wells said. Harry extended his hand for the young man to shake, and he did, though it was a bit limp and a bit weak.
“So your last name’s Farmer, huh?” Harry asked. “I don’t think I knew any Farmers when I was growing up here.”
“My family moved here about five years ago,” Wells said.
“Oh, yeah?” Harry asked. “What for?”
Wells relaxed the more he talked to Harry, and Harry gently moved them over to where Boston and Cora, Cole and Rosie, and Matt and Lynnie had gathered. He hoped Belle had put his tin foil dinner in the coals, as they took at least an hour to cook properly, and his hunger had already started to growl.
Then Adam turned to everyone, raised both hands, and said, “All right, guys, it’s time to put dinner in the coals.”
Harry glanced over to Bryce, realizing he hadn’t missed anything by staying out front and being the one to welcome everyone to cousin night.
Bryce met his eyes, and Harry cocked his head as if to say,So there.
Then both he and Bryce burst out laughing, and Harry knew that coming home to Coral Canyon had been the best decision he’d ever made.
CHAPTER
TWENTY
Cora could feed off the energy in this backyard for a long time. Boston had spent the twenty-minute drive from Silver Sage to this enormous mansion in Dog Valley going over who would be at cousin night. Cora had lost track of the names after the first five or six, but now that she’d met them face to face, they would be easier to remember.
Number one, she’d met Adam, Joey, Belle and Harry before, so she could barely count them as new people. Boston’s oldest cousin, Bryce, radiated sunshine, and she watched as he tipped his head back and laughed with another man who actually had silver at his temples already. She leaned her head closer to Boston and nodded over to them as the older man crouched down and, using his bare hands, started to put the tin foil dinners into the hot fire pit.
“Who’s that again?” she asked.
“Reggie,” Boston said. “He used to be a pro baseball player up in Seattle. He’s married to Kassie.”
“And Kassie and Bryce own the ranch,” Cora said, making the connection.
“That’s right,” Boston said.
“But Bryce is married to Codi.”
“Yep.”
Codi also had a good air about her too, and Boston had told Cora not to be too confused when she met Codi a second time, as the woman wore wigs and sometimes looked a little bit different. Tonight, she had blonde hair that fell just below her shoulders and bangs that covered her forehead, which her little boy kept reaching for.
Seeing children at cousin night made Cora’s heart happy, and though Boston had told her that Bryce and Kassie would probably bring their kids, it had still surprised her.
The conversation she’d been involved in with Lynnie and Matthew broke up as Adam came over and said, “You guys, we’ve got to get your food in, or we’ll be here all night waiting for it to cook.”
Boston had set their meals, which he had prepared, on the patio dining table, and he said, “I’ll go do it.” He left her standing with Lynnie. Matthew moved away too, as did Cole and Rosie.
Cora watched the two of them—siblings, Boston had told her—as Rosie continued to talk to him. He nodded and said a few things every now and then, and while Cora could definitely feel some intensity inside Rosie, she could also see that they had a close brother-sister bond.
The group of younger girls still sat at the patio set, and Boston stopped and chatted with them, his low chuckle reaching Cora’s ears from several feet away.
“How long have you two been dating?” Lynnie asked.
Cora turned her attention back to the young woman. “Only a couple of weeks,” Cora said. “Maybe only a single week.” She smiled at Lynnie. “I’ve only been back in town for that long.”
