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Kailey and Bri reached the door first, then turned around.
Kailey waved at the little boy still staring at her like he’d never seen anyone so beautiful.
“Bye, Asher! Have a great time trick-or-treating on Monday!”
“Get lots of candy!” Bri added.
All of a sudden, his shyness returned, and he pulled his mask back down before hiding behind his mom’s legs again.
“Nice meeting you, Chloe,” Kailey said before walking out the door. Brianna agreed, then followed her.
Dakota left next, trailed closely by Aiden, but then she stopped short, causing Aiden to bump into her.
“I almost forgot!”
She dashed back inside and grabbed the gift bag off the counter.
“What’s that?”
“A hostess gift.” She walked by him and threw over her shoulder, “My mother didn’t raise wild animals either.”
Dakota felt his hand at her waist as his breath at the shell of her ear made her body tingle. “You sure about that, Sunshine?”
She turned to face him with a smirk.
He returned the smirk, then slipped back into character. “Oh, that’s right. You’re just a little desert flower.”
She looked up into his baby blues and realized she was in trouble, that’s what she was.
Chapter Forty-Four
Aiden
“That was rigged,” he groused as he shut the driver’s door of his Audi.
“Oh, come on. Barbie and Ken were adorable. Besides, we got second place”—she waved the restaurant gift card they won at him—“and there were some great costumes we were competing with.”
“I don’t care. Ours was the best.”
“Next year, we’ll have to remember to be on-trend.”
Next year?
He liked the idea of that, and even more, he liked that she was planning on sticking around for that long.
He reached for her hand with a smile. “Okay, that’ll be the strategy next year.”
They drove in comfortable silence for a few minutes, then he asked, “I’m assuming since you didn’t bring an overnight bag, that you want me to take you home.”
“That depends. Didyoubring a bag?”
“I don’t like being presumptuous, so no.”
“Aw… well, maybe you could still come in for a nightcap.”
“A nightcap? Do people really do that, or is it just code for sex?”
“I can’t speak for everyone, but I was using it as a polite way of asking you to come in and have your way with me.”
