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He led the man toward the rest of us. “You know my sister, Beau.”
Her fist balled as her entire body tensed. “Don’t even,” she said when he bent forward as if to kiss her cheek.
His grin broadened as he ignored her and did it anyway. Beau stiffened and I was fairly sure fire beams from her eyes were going to laser him to ashes on the spot.
“And you’ve met Pepper and Miss Adeline.” Teague gestured toward them.
“When?” Beau demanded.
“In between fighting fires,” he returned easily.
Her fingers flexed and balled.Is she going to deck him?
“Heroes are humble. Like Teague.” There was respect on her angry features when she looked at her brother, though I was pretty sure she wanted to punch him too.
He cleared his throat. “And it’s been a while, but this is my brother, Lincoln, and his girlfriend, Lexie, and her brother, Eric.”
The man lifted his chin. “Garrett Calhoun. Everyone calls me Cal.” He pointed his thumb at Beau. “Except her.”
She flashed a saccharine smile. “I call you asshole.”
Whoa.
“And I call this interesting.” Miss Adeline rubbed her hands together. “Should we go have cereal now? I’m having Lucky Charms to watch this show.”
Pepper cut her eyes to the older woman, though she stifled a smile. “We’re out because you already ate them all.”
Miss Adeline held up her hands. “Must’ve been Sadie because it certainly wasn’t me.”
Pepper glanced at the dog uncertainly. With Sadie, it was very likely shehadeaten the cereal.
“I probably should’ve mentioned the menu before the invite,” Teague said with a smirk.
“I assumed it would be your cooking.” Cal slapped his back. “My bad.”
“If we had any left, I’d share my Lucky Charms with you,” Miss Adeline purred.
“Have you already forgotten about your crush on Lincoln?” Pepper asked.
“Appreciation. Not a crush,” she corrected. “And he’s taken.”
“That’s never stopped you from ‘appreciating’ anyone else.” Pepper used air quotes.
“I can look all I like. That never hurt anyone.” She patted Lincoln’s cheek. “And you are still one handsome devil.”
“What about me?” Teague protested. “You asked for firefighters and I delivered.” He pointed to Cal.
“You certainly did.” She touched his shoulder as she ambled past. “I owe you.” She linked arms with Eric. “Let’s go, handsome. I want to hear all about this art class.”
He followed, happily chattering about how cool it was everyone came.
Lincoln stood beside me, hands in his suit pockets, scowling.
I rolled up onto my tiptoes and brought my lips close to his ear. “You almost smiled at the art class. Don’t think I missed that.” I inched closer. “What’s that mad look about now?”
He dropped his gaze to mine. “I don’t like him.”
I glanced back at Cal, whose grin had faded, now that Beau was giving him an earful.
