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“No?” I said, turning to her. “You don’t like me?”
“I mean, yes,” she stuttered. “I do. I’m just…of course we’re not. This is just. I need to go back to New York!”
“Sounds like the lady doth protest too much this time,” Ethan said, with a sly smile.
“Ethan,” Sunshine said, putting a finger in his face. “Stop butchering Shakespeare. Carter, stop grilling Tag about nothing. And Mac, stop…well, just stop. I’m going back to the Lodge on my own.”
“Baby, the wolves,” I reminded her.
“Right now, I feel meaner than a wolf. And Ethan, don’t you dare tell Harmony about any of this,” Sunshine demanded, her arm flinging toward the bed where we’d slept together last night.
Ethan held up his phone with a picture of us in bed, and it had already been sent to his wife. “Too late?”
She growled at him, not unlike a wolf, and stormed out of the bedroom.
I scowled at all of them. “Happy?”
Ethan smiled. “Yeah. It makes me happy to see my best friend happy. She brings out the best in you.”
“Don’t get any ideas,” I told them, rubbing the sleep out of my eyes and the sensation of her next to me off my body. “You heard her. She’s going back to New York.”
“Eventually,” Mac said. “But she’s here now.”
“I’m going to follow her back so I can take her into town,” Ethan said. “But you should start thinking about a plan, Tag.”
“A plan for what?” I asked him.
“For how you’re going to get her to stay,” Ethan said, simply.
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SUNSHINE
“You good withme dropping you off here?” Ethan asked me, as he pulled up to the sidewalk next to the town square.
“Yep. Mom decided to come to town and is meeting me by the gallows.”
“Another girls’ lunch?” Ethan said, like it was so normal.
And the funny thing was – it was starting tofeelnormal. Group chats. Lunch dates. Morning run-ins with my half-brothers. I smiled, remembering how completely overbearing and funny they’d been just because I’d fallen asleep next to Tag last night.
“You’re not seriously bothered by me and Tag, are you?” I asked him. “That whole thing this morning was a joke, right? You know I’m a grown woman who is going to make her own choices.”
“Of course. Carter is the cavemen of our group. I just…” he trailed off. Took a breath and then tried again. “Tag is like a brother to me. To all of us. You know that.”
“I do,” I said.
“Mac called him elusive and that’s exactly what he’slike. Especially with women. He’s not quick to put his heart out there. In fact, the opposite is true.”
“Are you worried he’s going to break my heart?” I asked him.
Because that wasn’t going to happen. Both Tag and I understood that feelings had nothing to do with anything that was happening between us.
“No, sis. I’m worried you’re going to break his,” Ethan said, with a heavy sigh. “I wish I could tell you how quickly it can happen. One minute you don’t really know who this person is, and the next…she’s your world and you would die without her.”
“That’s not going to happen to us,” I assured him. “Trust me. We’re not you and Harmony. There just isn’t enough time for that. I’ll be back in New York next week, whether this works or not.”
“But, it’s going to work,” Ethan said, confidently. “Everyone is sure of it.”
