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Bugger-arse!
Tucker’s shoulders are shaking; he’s laughing that hard.
“Sssh… he’s going to get a big head.” We both cease talking.
We watch while Tucker strokes his neatly trimmed beard, which has my girly bits tingling as he finishes up with his messaging. He then slips the phone into his leather jacket pocket before resting his forearms on his knees, broadening his shoulders.
Blimey, he’s magnificent.
Tucker winks before sliding his sunglasses slowly back up his nose. Could the man look any sexier at this moment? And that is a rhetorical question.
I drag my eyes away from him and look at my best friend. “He is off-limits to you,” I whisper, marking my territory, but only because I have a poorly held together rule book as it is.
“Oooh, you have a sexy pilot.” Gwen’s eyes light up. She claps her hands together. “Is he here to take you somewhere, or did he drop you off?”
“He dropped me off and… well… um… it’s complicated, sort of.”
“Sort of?”
“I’ll explain later,” I hiss, knowing Tucker, he can probably lip-read. He can do just about everything else.
“Oh, this is gonna be good. I can tell.” She holds her hands up in front of her in surrender. “Sexy man is off-limits,” she repeats. “Have you gotten some of this sexy man?”
My face is heating the more my best friend talks. “Dudette, now is not the time for playing with me.”
What must Tucker think of the two of us?
“You have not called me ‘dudette’ in forever. I can see this is gonna be one ofthosetypes of conversations we will need to have with pizza.” She wraps an arm around my waist. “Well, I think you need to introduce me before he topples out of that helicopter from laughing at us because he sure has been eyeing you up the whole time we were dancing and singing. At one stage, he was clapping along. The guy obviously has good taste in music.”
“Bestie, you need to stop talking about Tucker before I un-bestie you,” I grind out through my teeth. I can’t be mad at my best friend because I would be giving her the same shit if the situation was in reverse, but now I think about it, it’s been a long time between boyfriends.
“I want an introduction ASAP and a closer look at your bloke. My guess is he’s sporting sexy caveman bedroom eyes under those aviators. I bet he smells as good as he looks.”
Tucker smothers his mouth with his hand; he’s laughing so hard.
“I knew it!” He so can lip-read!
“You knew what?” she asks innocently.
“Nothing,” I deadpan.
She laughs because she’s not stupid. My friend is an intelligent woman. She is just mucking about with me. It’s why we are such good friends. We love each other like sisters, which is how sisters would roll.
“How long have you known your man for?”
“Since Friday and you—”
“You work fast. I thought you were off—?”
“Oh, boy. Do you not understand? I will explain this later?”
“I do, but I am intrigued and a nosy bitch. Tucker’s a wonderful distraction.” She waggles her sculpted eyebrows comically.
I grab Gwendoline’s hand and tug her toward the homestead. “We can talk about Tucker later, but for now, I have a speed date with Alice in the animal corral.”
“Who’s Alice?”
“Tucker’s sister.”
