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“Oh, really? I didn’t realize he had a bad rep.”
“Well, I’m not saying a bad rep,” she said. “I’m just saying that except for Beau, he’s the least likely of all the brothers to settle down.” She bit her lower lip. “Sorry, I didn’t mean it like that.”
“It’s fine.” I forced a light laugh. It hurt, but what she said was the truth. “Beau doesn’t want to settle down, and that’s up to him, right? That’s his prerogative. I think he does probably want to settle down sometime in the future. He’s a man, so he can do it when he’s fifty years old if he wants. He’s got the ranch to take care of, and that comes first for him, so”—I shrugged—“whatever. I’ll be going back to New York soon, and I’m sure I’ll meet plenty of guys there.”
“But I wanted you to stay.”
“I know. I wanted to stay as well.” I sighed. “Wow, I guess I finally admitted it out loud.”
“You really like Montana, don’t you?” Lucy said.
“Yeah. I’m shocked, because I never thought I would be a country girl.”
“We’re not country girls,” Lucy said. “We’re city girls who appreciate the country. There’s a difference.”
“True; there is a difference. I wonder if Beau will come and speak to me before we go out tonight.” I couldn’t keep the hope out of my voice.
“Do you want him to?”
“It would be nice if he came and apologized for being cold to me all day and gave me a kiss and told me to have fun or something. But I guess he’s not going to do that in front of you.”
“I can go back to my room to get changed if you want,” she said.
“No, no. It’s fun, us getting ready together like we did in the past.”
“I think so too. And you can always go to his room if you want.”
“I’m not going to him. He knows how to find me.”
“I agree. Okay, so you’re wearing the sexy dress?” Lucy looked at the two dresses I held up earlier.
“Yep,” I said. “I’m going to wear this sexy red piece. And what about you? Are you going to be sexy tonight?”
“Of course. Austin will be pissed, but hey, how many times am I going to be able to go out on the town with my girlfriend and shake what the good Lord gave me?”
“Not many times after you get married,” I replied. “Have you guys decided on a wedding date yet?”
“Not yet,” she said. “We realized we were rushing the wedding. We both want to get married, and we do want to start a family, but I’d like to be engaged for a little bit, you know? Plus, we need to build the house, and there’s just a lot going on. We don’t have to get married right away.”
“That makes sense. So I guess I’ll be coming out to Montana again for a wedding.”
“Yeah. If you don’t mind, of course.”
“Girl, any excuse to come and visit you.”
“Yay!”
There was a knock on the door then. Adrenaline rushed through me at the thought that it could be Beau.
“Who is it?” I opened the door, praying it was Beau, but then I saw Arya and Sadie’s faces.
“Hey, girls. How’s it going?” Sadie said. “We were just checking to see what you guys were going to wear tonight.”
“Oh, we were going sexy,” I said, trying to stay positive, even though my heart was breaking. I guess Beau wasn’t coming to see me after all.
“Oh, awesome,” Sadie said. “I’m going sexy, as you know. But we wanted to make sure we weren’t going too sexy.”
“We don’t want to look like strippers,” Arya added.
