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“Oh, yeah?” I wondered why she was bringing up a bartender when she already knew I had a crush on Beau. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Beau frowning, as was Austin, and I wondered if this was her ploy to try to make him jealous.
“I guess I can make it tomorrow,” Beau said.
“Who invited you?” Sadie looked at him. “It’s a girls’ night.”
“I don’t know about that.” Austin looked at Lucy. “I don’t—”
“It’s a girls’ night, Austin.” She gave him a little stare. “I think it’ll be a lot of fun. Arya, you in?”
“Well, I don’t know. I have Eloise,” she said softly. I could tell she was tempted, though.
“I’m sure my mom can look after her,” Austin said with a shrug. “If you want to go.”
“I do,” she said, “but I don’t want to ask your mom that. She’s already done so much.”
“Austin, you can look after her. And Beau and Wyatt,” Sadie put in.
Wyatt made a face. “Oh, no. I’m no good with kids.”
“You can say that again,” Sadie said with a laugh.
“What does that mean, Sadie?”
“You know what it means.”
“No, I don’t.
“Guys, guys,” Lucy interrupted them as she walked and sat next to me on the couch and handed me a drink. “Come on, let’s finish watching this episode of Big Sky. I want to know what happens. How can they not have found the serial killer? The state’s not that big.”
“You’d be surprised.” Austin gave her a kiss on the cheek.
“I guess I would be.” She grinned.
Beau turned the lights off in the room, and we all gathered on the couches and got comfortable again. Once everyone was seated, he pressed the remote and started up the episode again.
I sipped on my toddy, feeling happy and content. I’d never had an experience like this before—being in a room with so many people, just happy to be together. We weren’t having a party. It wasn’t a special occasion. It was just living.
I liked it, and I was excited for the next day and spending it with Beau Hamilton.
Chapter Forty-Six
Beau
“Oh my gosh. That was so scary,” Arya said as the episode ended. She was curled up on the couch, and she looked around the room with a panicked expression. “I don’t know how I’m going to be able to sleep tonight. Thank God I have Eloise in the bed next to me. That was so creepy!”
“I know,” Olivia said from her position on the couch. “I don’t know how I’m going to stay in Montana, knowing there are serial killers on the run.”
“You do know that this is a TV show,” I said dryly and looked at the ladies. “Talk about drama queens.”
“Beau, fact is actually stranger than fiction,” Lucy insisted. “So I think they have reason to be scared. I’m kind of scared as well. How creepy is this show? I love it, but it’s creepy.”
“Don’t worry, darling.” My brother Austin kissed her on the cheek. “I’ll keep you warm tonight.”
“Oh, yeah, you going to protect me?”
“With my life,” he said.
The women all sighed while I groaned. “Oh my gosh, guys, take it to the bedroom. Enough.” What had happened to my brother? He was the second oldest and most considered him even tougher than me, but he’d become a wuss in love. I couldn’t believe it.
