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I shook my head and motioned to the sitting room where I had no doubt Wilder and perhaps one of the other guys were.
“I need to get out of my head for a while. Let’s go for a walk. Get your jacket. Better yet, are you hungry?”
I smiled. Wren was always hungry these days. “I’m famished.”
“I’ll tell Wilder we’re going to the pub. Meet me back here in five.”
I grabbed my jacket and came out of the bedroom to find her waiting in the reception hall just inside the front door. “What would you have done if I’d said no?”
“Made Wilder come with me.”
I nodded, hating that her saying so made me sad. I’d never had anyone in my life like Wilder was with Wren, and I doubted I ever would. I was the woman men were willing to shag a time or two but never the one they fell in love with.
“Should we go to the Duck instead?” Wren asked once I’d driven out the gate.
“No,” I snapped. “Have you forgotten I’m a vegetarian?”
“Maybe you wouldn’t be so grouchy if you let yourself have a hamburger every now and then.”
I sighed. “I did do. With Ares.”
“I see.”
“What do you see? I just don’t feel like having another burger when it hasn’t been that long.”
She rolled her eyes.
“You’re lucky you’re pregnant, or I’d turn this car around and you’d have to fend for yourself.”
Once seated at the pub,me with a pint, her with water, and we’d placed our order, she folded her hands on the table. “What’s going on with you and the war god?”
I folded my hands and rested them near hers. “Nothing.”
“What happened before he left for Yavaros?”
“We danced.”
“What else?”
“Kissed.”
“And?”
“He left.”
“What about in London? It seemed the two of you had a spat. Was it over Iris?”
I glared at her, but it was a fair enough question. “Not about Iris. He told me he was attracted to me, and I told him we could never be more than colleagues.”
“Why?”
My glare was more intense.
“What? It’s how Wilder and I met.”
“You seem to have forgotten the year during which you fled England and hid from him at your family’s ranch in Texas.”
“It wasn’t a whole year.”
