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“So how did he propose?” Diane asked.
She frowned. “I have no idea. I haven’t talked to either of them. It’s been over an hour. I got a picture of the ring and they aren’t replying, but I know they are reading the messages. I tried to call my sister and she’s not answering either. She’s seeing my texts too. I think they are all in on making me wait.”
There was a lot of laughter over that comment. “Might be payback for you getting on their case over the past few holidays.”
“Well,” Jolene said, “he was dragging his feet forever. I couldn’t figure out what was going on.”
“It’s not up to you to figure it out,” Carolyn said.
“I know, I know. Fill me in on what is going on with you two. How are things with Jonah at the very least?”
“They are there,” Diane said. “It’s hard to get much on it when the guys seem to be doing more of the work.”
She laughed. “You two need to push your way in there more.”
“It’s not as easy as you. We aren’t in the office and don’t have a reason to be there all that much. Those two husbands of ours are having more fun than we do,” Carolyn said.
“And they pick on us,” Jolene said. She looked at Gavin and winked at her husband. He was putting more work in on this one with Faith too.
“How are things with Faith?” Diane asked.
“Don’t go there. I swear each one is worse than the one before. My own kids weren’t this bad at withholding things from me, but there is some progress. I mean she’s in a relationship once I got her to admit it.” Dating and a relationship were the same things in her mind.
“That is what you get for all the years of nagging,” Carolyn said. “Good thing I never did that with any of my kids.”
“Yeah, yeah,” Jolene said. “Keep me posted if you have anything to report. Now go enjoy the night with your husbands like you know I’m going to.”
“You know as well as I do that Faith isn’t in a relationship,” her husband said when she disconnected the call.
“They will be,” she said. “Three dates in one week might be a record for Faith, and Marci said the same for Sawyer. That’s moving fast, don’t you think?”
“If you say so,” he said.
“Don’t pacify me,” she said, standing up and holding her hand out for him. “I’d rather you take me to bed.”
“I can do both,” he said, laughing and picking her up. She loved that he was still the strong man she fell in love with almost forty years ago.
30
Pushed In Life
“You’re brave for suggesting we come here for dinner tonight,” Faith said on Saturday. They’d just walked into Fierce-The Pub, but were going to have dinner in the back restaurant.
“No reason to be brave,” Sawyer said. “It’s not like I’m armed right now.”
She bumped her shoulder with him. She’d seen the gun on him enough times, but it never bothered her. When he came into her house for a visit, even after work, it was never on him. He said he left it in his SUV locked. When he spent the night, it was on him and he’d leave it on his side of the bed.
When she’d gone to his house after work, he normally had it off or locked in his room, but she’d seen him with it when he was running late or left her house in the morning.
“It’s a good thing with the way my aunt is. I’ll put money on the fact she shows up today.”
“No way,” he said.
She stuck her hand out. “Want to bet?”
“You’re too confident for me to want to bet, so I’ll say no to it.”
“For the restaurant or the pub?” the hostess asked when she got to them. There was a line of people.
