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She was overwhelmingly certain that there was a difference, but it took her a few seconds to figure out what it was. “Gunner needs my help. It’s a mutual benefit.” She looked up at the giant house in front of her. “You guys don’t need anyone’s help.”
“Nova ...”
“Besides, he’s hot.”
Brooke’s eyes widened. “Oh, you actually like him?”
“Of course I like him. I wouldn’t marry someone I didn’t like.”
Brooke stared at her. “Well, that changes everything. You might have led with that.”
Grace came out onto the porch carrying a giant purse and moved around Brooke to go down the steps.
“Taking off already?” Brooke asked.
“No, just running into town.”
“Can I catch a ride?” Nova asked.
Grace looked surprised but readily agreed.
Nova wasn’t sure how she’d get out to the Bridge Ranch once she made it to town, but at least she’d be that much closer.
Once they were bouncing down the unpaved driveway, Grace said, “I’m glad we’re getting this chance to chat because I wanted to tell you to ignore Finn.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. He really wasn’t trying to be malicious. He doesn’t understand it when people aren’t as bubbly and goofy as him.”
Nova laughed. “I guess I never thought of Finn as bubbly.”
“Oh, believe me. There are bubbles.” She sighed. “So, so many bubbles.”
Chapter 21
Gunner felt someone watching him and looked up to see Nova standing in the middle of his barn. He nearly jumped.
“Sorry,” she said, “I wasn’t trying to sneak up on you.” Something in her tone made him do a double take, and then something in her expression made him stare. He was no expert on the wily ways of a woman, but was she being ... coy?
She stepped closer. “Do you have a minute?”
He did. “I would have given you a ride to the Bannons. How did you get back?”
“Grace.”
Grace? As in God’s grace had teleported her?
“Grace Bannon. Finn’s wife.”
“Oh.” He’d never really bothered to keep track of the younger Bannons. He really wanted to ask why she’d gone there, but it wasn’t any of his business.
“I went to visit Brooke. She’s an old friend of mine.”
Well, that wasn’t nearly as bad as he’d imagined.
“I went to ask her what she knew about you.”
He winced. That was scarier. But Brooke wouldn’t say anything bad about him, right? He and Callum got on pretty well.
