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“Just a figure of speech,” she said. “For now it’s me and Fred. He’s not going to want to share his side of the bed.”
Her aunt frowned and she laughed before she walked out.
* * *
“Did you get anywhere?”Jolene asked Gavin after everyone left.
“No. I can’t believe you talked me into this.”
“Oh please,” she said, rolling her eyes. “You’ve got a soft spot for Faith and you know it. You wouldn’t have agreed if you didn’t think you could show me up. I know what this is about.”
He laughed. His wife was too smart for her own good, but he should know by now she was going to ride his niece so hard that she’d put up a bigger wall.
Besides, he was positive Sawyer might be a good match for his niece and he’d had a few conversations with both Sean and Logan Brennan. The men were going to show how this could get done. They just had to be a bit sneakier about it than his wife was.
“I do have a soft spot for her, but she is like Ella and it takes time. The girls are harder than the boys so be thankful we only have two of them.”
“If you think you can pull this off by siding with her and letting Faith think she can confide in you, then go right at it,” his wife said. “But I think you’re nuts.”
“Just as nuts as I was when I started this years ago with Ella?” he asked, smirking.
“And look at how long it took. Ella was the last one of The Five and the first one you started.”
“But it worked,” he said. “So remember that when you want to give me a hard time.”
His wife frowned, but Gavin laughed and walked away. He knew he had a high mountain to climb with this, but he’d done it before and he could again.
8
Only Way It Works
“Merry Christmas,” Faith said to her parents when she opened the door on Christmas morning. Fred went running toward the back of the house and the kitchen where he’d sit until someone gave him a treat from the stash her mother kept there for him.
“You too,” her mother said, moving forward and taking the gifts she was carrying out of her hands.
“I’ve got more in the car. I’ll be right back.”
“You always go overboard,” her father said.
“I like shopping and buying gifts,” she said.
She was at her car getting the last of them out of the trunk when Liam and Margo pulled in right behind her.
“Do you need help?” Liam asked.
“Nope, I’ve got the rest of them now. Thanks.”
She followed her brother and sister-in-law into the house. They’d open gifts and have breakfast here and then later this afternoon they’d go to her Aunt Jolene and Uncle Gavin’s house. She wanted to avoid it after last night but couldn’t think of a reason to get out of it.
“Why don’t we open our gifts now?” her mother said. “Then I’ll finish with breakfast. I know you are going to Margo’s parents for dinner and you might want to go home and relax first.”
“We are going there from here,” Margo said. “It’s fine. We’ll have an early lunch and then stop to see Jolene.”
“Yeah,” Liam said, then glanced at Faith. “We need to see her hound you now.”
“Not funny,” she said. “I’m not falling for it and you know it.”
“We all said that,” Liam said. “The only way out of this is to find someone on your own.”
