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“I was just telling Razor that we’ve booked rooms at the bed and breakfast on Moonstone Beach.”
“Which one? You know there are at least twenty.”
“I don’t know. Moonstone something or other.”
Ava laughed. “That doesn’t narrow it down, Mom.”
“Cambria Shores,” murmured Aine, who was looking at her phone.
Razor noticed that she was biting her lower lip. Ava did that when she was worried about something too.
“What’s up?” he asked, putting his arm around his wife’s twin.
“Nothing,” she answered, locking the screen, and shoving her phone into her back pocket.
Razor looked at Ava, who was also absentmindedly chewing her lip.
“Okay, you two. Tell me what’s going on.”
“Aine wants to invite Griffin to Thanksgiving dinner,” blurted their mother.
Razor looked back and forth between the sisters. “Striker?”
Ava nodded.
“Uh…sure…uh…”
“Never mind. It isn’t a big—”
“Wait,” said Ava. “It is a big deal.” Her eyes met his, and she put her hand on her hip. “If she can’t invite him, she won’t be spending Thanksgiving with us.”
Razor held up his hands. “I didn’t say she couldn’t.”
“You were going to,” she pouted.
He walked over and put his arm around her shoulders. “No. I wasn’t. He’s more than welcome to join us.”
From the corner of his eye, he saw Aine’s tentative smile.
“Don’t you need to ask Gunner?”
“Nope,” he answered, hoping Ava didn’t pick up on his fib.
“Razor,” she threatened, letting him know she had. She only called him Razor when she was pissed at him about something, and lying was at the top of what made her mad.
“I’m not going to ask,” he told her. “I’m going to tell him as a courtesy.”
The three women standing with him in the kitchen all laughed.
“Yeah. Okay. I get it. I’ll be right back.”
Razor rapped on Gunner’s front door, hoping his friend wouldn’t pitch a fit when he told him about Aine wanting to invite Striker to dinner.
“What?” he barked when he opened the door.
“Hey,” he answered, pushing past him.
“We were just leaving,” Gunner told him.
