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“Obviously. Side effect of there beinga millionof you. I meant the stuff you said about Brex being special—about Rhyett being a good man and her being the only woman he’s brought home.”
“It’s true.”
“What?” she chirped, blinking.
I shrugged. “Why bring somebody around if they’re not sticking? Just complicates things. Plus. With sisters who love everybody, it would be like inviting the future you to deal with your future ex.”
“Hmm,” she hummed thoughtfully. “You share the philosophy?”
“We came up with it together the first time Hadlee insisted on hanging out with my high school girlfriend after she’d dumped me to sleep her way through my team. It was the same summer we agreed not to mess around with any of our sisters’ best friends, oranyof our best friends’ sisters.”
“Yikes,” she said with a sympathetic grimace.
“That summarizes it.”
Rhyett took Brexley’s hands, stepping wide and lowering his eyes to be on her level. God, she looked so small next to him. Was Skittles even more petite? No wonder she acted like I was a giant. “What’s she saying?”
“Hold on, I’ll whip out my bionic ears and keep you posted.”
“Smartass.”
“Shh, my secret agent fly is getting close.”
“Jesus.” Fighting laughter had become a part-time job with her in our lives.
She dug around in her back pocket. “Oooh, magic amplification gummy bears.”
“Are you done yet?” I deadpanned.
“Hold on, I’m consulting my divination ball.”
“Okay, I get it.” I threw my hands up in surrender. “Dumb question.”
“Thank you,” she said, smirking as she turned back to the free show.
It seemed like smiling around this woman was involuntary. But she was freaking funny.Annoying. But funny. Every single inch of my body froze when her hand jutted out and wrapped around my wrist. I’d never had a woman send heat into my blood the way she did. Never had anyone commanded my lust so goddamned easily, images of those hands in a very different location flitting through my mind. Why did she have to be so damn young?
“Oh, oh! Here we go.” She squeezed me tighter, and while I wanted to see his reaction to this particular bomb, I couldn’t peel my eyes from where her fingers set against my skin. Traced up the length of her toned arm, studied those painted pink lips and her freckled face. Sucked down a breath when I found her eyes on me. She pulled away, bringing that fair hand to settle against her throat right as it bobbed. Something about the visual of the two did very unwelcome things to my body.
“Yeah,” I breathed, forcing my eyes back to Rhyett and Brexley right as he gave some sort of exclamation and scooped her tiny body up against his.
He was spinning her in a circle when my unfortunate fixation said, “Noel.”
“For a niece?”
She laughed airily. “I mean, I would certainly be honored.”
When her meaning clicked, I looked away from a now excitedly making-out Rhyett and Brexley to study her instead.
“My nameis Noel.”
Fuck, that actually fit. I smiled. “Now,thatmakes sense.”
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NOEL
“Oh goodie, I get to grow dark hair on my chin, and if I’m lucky, I’ll get whiskers.”
