Page 76 of Baby, Be Mine

“Sure.” She tucked a flyaway lock of blue hair around her ear. “How’s it going out there?”

“Good. Lucky is adding a ton of really cool features to the boat for us.”

“Oh, he’s dreamy. His wife is scary as hell, but Lucky is one tree I wouldn’t mind climbing. You know, if he was single.”

I laughed. “He is objectively hot.”

She snorted. “Long hair and big muscles not your deal?”

My gaze tracked to Mason at the second level bar before I could control it. “I’m usually an artsy girl.”

Esther’s eyebrow arched as she snuck a quick look at where my attention had drifted to. “Or tall dudes with a hint of ginger?”

“What? No.” I cleared my throat. “What’s the lunch special today?”

“Lobster rolls since we got a ridiculous batch of lobster yesterday.”

“There are worse things.” I wasn’t sure what Maddie liked, but I decided to get three of them and a double batch of fries for us all to share.

Esther put my order in and dragged me over to the side out of the flow of traffic. “You know Mason’s not into Gillian, right?”

“I don’t care who he’s into. He’s just my boss.”

She rolled her eyes. “Right. He doesn’t date people from MJ’s though. But I don’t know…”

“Handily, I’m dating no one so that doesn’t bother me.”

“Hmm.”

Rami came over to see what we were talking about. One thing you could count on in The Mason Jar was the girls liked to gossip. “What’s going on?”

“I was just telling Emma that Mason isn’t into Gillian.”

“Oh, God, no. Gillian doesn’t seem to get that through her thick skull. Pretty sure there’s some blood of her enemies under that silky straight black hair. Probably blocks the signal.”

“Guys, I don’t care.”

Rami’s eyes crinkled at the corners. “Sure. That’s why you keep glancing over there with daggers for eyeballs.”

I ground my molars together. “Can you have one of the guys run the food out when it’s ready?”

“I’ll have Mason run it out,” Esther said as she sashayed away.

Rami cackled. “Esther likes to play matchmaker. Don’t mind her. I remember how a new baby kills any romantic feelings. But you guys sure do look good together.” She winked before she rushed back out onto the floor to take care of a table.

I had a party to finish and no time to moon over Mason. Not that I was mooning. Even if my fingers kept fisting as Gillian tried to superglue herself to his side. Didn’t he even notice how close she was?

Wedidn’t stand like that.

Well, except when he helped me get Adriana out of the car. His spicy mandarin scent was distracting, that was all. I didn’t really want to take a big bite out of him.

Much.

Ugh.I stalked out of the dining room and through the patio door to head back to the oak tree. Adriana was awake and she looked like a little football in the crook of Lucky’s meaty arm.

With his other hand, he was directing Jensen in the tree. Maddie was feeding Jensen the heavy links of chain.

God, it was even more perfect than I’d imagined.

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