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“That’s because once you’re one of us, you’re one of us for life.” Charlie picked up her tea cup and Isabel clinked hers to it.
“Do you want to watch something on my laptop or are you too tired from flying today and want to go to sleep?” Isabel asked.
“Go to sleep?” Charlie’s brows crinkled. “Now? What kind of slumber party ends at”—she peeked at her phone—“nine-fifteen on a Saturday night?”
“A loser slumber party?”
“Exactly. And we ain’t no losers.” Charlie gestured to Isabel’s laptop. “Fire it up and let’s binge until the streaming service gets concerned and asks us if we’re still viewing.”
“Such a rebel.” Isabel grabbed her laptop. “Let’s get on the bed.”
They both settled up at the headboard, the laptop set up in between them and Blaze doing his best to guard their feet. Isabel found a show for them to watch, but when she wiggled into a more relaxed position, the floodlight from Jackson’s cottage next door pooled in her lap.
Yesterday it had annoyed her to know he was that close.
Tonight... it didn’t.
