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“Okay, but there are still jackasses on the water on a Sunday afternoon.”
“I’ll be extra observant.”
She didn’t even mind his request this time; it didn’t feel like he was trying to parent her or control her. It spoke of love, of passion. They were going to be parents to a kid they’d made who grew inside her. Why were they having this discussion now, with all these people around? Only they’d barely said a word; it was information they transferred back and forth in some magical way.
“Wow,” she said, standing back up.
“I know.” He pointed at her still-flat belly. “Mine.”
“You can tell your friends,” she said, smiling the first genuine smile she’d had in a while.
“Thank you.”
She took a last look over at the rescue. Gloria and Amber were still safely over there with Annie. “Goodbye, Justy. I’m leaving now, finally.”
“I’ll be here.”
Running to the dock, she and Brulee jumped in the skiff and made it to the public dock in five minutes. Katrina said she hadn’t been there too long. The encounter with Justin reverberated through her head. That hot, handsome, sexy hunk digging a trench for a barn on her property was in love with her. No matter what, Justin loved Maggie. Nothing else mattered.
Brulee sat up straight, tail wagging as Katrina waved at her. She had a bag, too, probably food, and Maggie laughed.
“Hey, why do I feel like I haven’t seen you in a long time?” Maggie asked.
“It’s been two days. That is a long time.”
The tide was high, so she didn’t need the ladder, jumping down into the boat.
“You look terrific,” Katrina said.
“I just had a mood switch. I hope it lasts. Amber is at my house. I’ll tell you quickly what happened.”
She explained Gus’s slip of the tongue, telling her Amber was helping at the clinic, and then Justin not saying anything about it but almost, and Maggie stopping him so it didn’t ruin the evening, and the effort it was taking to be civil. But then the moment in a relationship had just taken place, and it made everything okay, for the time being.
“I just hope I don’t switch back to the raving lunatic.”
“I rather like the lunatic,” Katrina said, hugging her.
“What do you want to do?”
“I want to see the famous horse.”
“Raven?”
“You named her?”
“I did. She’s the only black horse in the two bands. She’s with a spotted bunch, so I’m eager to see what her baby looks like.”
“What do you think your baby will look like?” Katrina asked, grinning at her best friend.
“I have no idea. Tatts, probably. Muscles.”
They laughed out loud.
“Ha! I don’t think so. I can’t wait.”
The evil eye Maggie had painted at the end of her dock came into view, and she pulled alongside it.
“We should go to the rescue, too. Annie is there, babysitting withAmber.”
