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“We can,” he said. “I’ll be back.”
He left when she noticed Egan waving him over by Eli, Ethan and Griffin. Janet was standing by the photographer so she was guessing that was a picture they wanted of the men Janet considered all of her boys.
“You two are getting pretty cozy,” Aunt Melissa said. “Are you taking notes, Emma?”
Grace shrugged. “We are.”
“Mom,” Roark said, “Emma has to leave the house for more than just a family event to find a man.”
“Thanks, Roark,” Emma said, picking her drink up. “I don’t need you to come to bat for me but appreciate it. Maybe everyone can pick on Skyler. He’s older and still single.”
Grace laughed over her brother getting the shade thrown at him.
Though she wasn’t mad at her brother anymore in regards to his comment to Lincoln on the docks, she was still annoyed.
The two of them didn’t talk about it anymore and it was for the best.
“Yeah,” she said. “Pick on Skyler.”
Her brother squinted one eye at her but kept his mouth closed.
Thirty minutes later, the DJ had the music playing and people were on the dance floor. She excused herself to track down her boyfriend and saw him talking to some woman at another table that she didn’t know.
“Hey, Grace. I was just going to come get you. This is Roxy and Rob. Both are the pilots I work with now that live in Boston.”
“It’s nice to meet you,” she said, shaking Rob’s hand and then Roxy’s. She hadn’t been expecting someone so young and attractive.
Rob was with a date, Roxy not.
“Lincoln did a great job with that speech,” Roxy said. “He’s always been a talker.”
Grace lifted her eyebrows. “Do you two know each other aside from work?”
“Oh,” Roxy said. “We served together in the Air Force. He reached out to me when they were looking for a full-time pilot to see if I was interested. I’d left the service a year before him.”
She’d had no clue. It had never come up.
“That’s great,” she said, forcing a smile. “Glad it’s working out for you.”
When a slow song started to play, Lincoln tugged her onto the floor. “What was that about?” he asked.
She put her arms around his neck. She was reaching up for it but didn’t care. He had his hands on her waist.
“What are you talking about?”
“Your look and tone when you found out I knew Roxy,” he said.
She turned and looked at him. “You never said anything.”
“I didn’t know I needed to.”
She had to play this in her head. “How close of friends were you two?”
He laughed and leaned down to whisper in her ear. “Are you jealous?”
“No,” she said. But those stupid doubts and pushing people away in her past were popping into her head.
“Could have fooled me,” he said.
