“What!” Randi exclaimed.
“Yeah, she’s really busy and works such late hours,” Eden said. “We’d have to meet at venues the way we did that first night in order to see each other. It didn’t work out.”
“I’m sorry,” Cari said. “So does that mean you’re still dating Tennie and Gabi?”
Eden nodded. “Tennie and I rode bikes around the lake on Saturday. It was fun. I don’t know when I’ve done anything like that.”
“I do,” Randi said. “Don’t you remember? Last summer we went to that bar on the lake with all the bikes parked out front.”
“Oh yeah, I was meeting Summer and made you go with me,” Eden said.
“And,” Randi said, her eyes bright with excitement, “one of Summer’s friends was being an ass and challenged me to a bike race.”
“Oh no,” Cari said. “What happened?”
“He really was a dick,” Eden said. “I’ll tell you what happened! Randi jumped on a random bike and took off down the road.”
“That’s right,” Randi said. “He never had a chance.”
Eden laughed. “My girl won and we drank free beer the rest of the night.”
Randi laughed and shook her head. “I hadn’t thought about that in a long time.”
“I imagine you two are full of stories like that,” Analise said.
Randi caught Eden’s gaze and smiled. They both shrugged then giggled.
The doorbell rang again and Eden said, “That must be Gabi.”
Randi, Cari, and Analise carried the food to the table in the living room while Eden answered the door. Once introductions were made they all gathered around the table to snack and chat.
“Eden tells me you want to learn to salsa,” Gabi said to Randi.
Randi swallowed a bite. “I do,” she replied, wiping the corner of her mouth. “Can you teach us?”
Gabi nodded and looked over at Eden with a smile. “Eden caught on quickly.”
“I just learned to two-step and I want to go dancing again,” Cari said.
“That was a fun night,” Analise said. “We should do it again.”
“We took Cari to Billy Bob’s,” Eden explained.
“Randi is a very good teacher,” Cari said with a smile.
“Thank you.” Randi bowed her head slightly. “Do you dance, Paige?”
“Oh, I’ve been to Billy Bob’s a few times,” Paige said. “I had no idea you wanted to learn to dance, Cari. We could’ve taken you.”
Cari shrugged. “When I met Randi the night before her presentation I saw people two-stepping at the bar and it looked like fun.”
“Presentation?” Gabi asked.
“I told you, Randi works with me,” Eden said. “Analise is the owner of the company. Cari is an author we had been trying to sign?—”
“And Randi made such an amazing pitch I couldn’t say no.” Cari chuckled. “So now they’re stuck with me and I bother them several times a week while they’re trying to sell more of my books.”
“I remember Randi’s awesome pitch from the night I met Eden,” Gabi said, putting her arm around Eden’s shoulders.
