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Gage
We don’t think it’s weird for Shiloh’s wife and brother to fall in love?
Bret
Nope.
Rosie
Gage, did you see them singing together tonight? Chem.is.try.
Bret
Meant. To. Be.
Rosie
YES. You get it, Bret.
Bret
Can you handle the responsibility of being a matchmaking momma, Gage? Speak now or forever hold your peace.
Rosie
Once again, WE are not the mommas. But I otherwise stand by your question.
Gage
Oh, I’m in.
Someone needs to keep you two from going too far. And it looks like it’s gonna be me.
Rosie
Are you quoting my favorite boy band? I knew I chose this group right.
Chapter 6
Hudson
Iwaiteduntiltheowner of the Icy Asp restaurant was locking the door before heading to my parents’ house.
Amelia had left a couple of hours ago with Quinn, who was acting extra emotional by the time the third karaoke song started to play. Probably from overstimulation and exhaustion. As always, I was torn between disappointment at watching them go, and the relief that washed over me at not having to watch every word and look and thought around Amelia.
I’d dropped my guard when we were singing our song, and Amelia had been casting me strange looks ever since, like she was trying to figure something out.
I’m in love with you.
That was the mystery she was trying to solve, and maybe was getting close to solving, and the one I was desperate to keep hidden.
Mom and Dad had already gone to bed—but Mom had left a note for me on the table. It reminded me of being a teenager. I swear she’d had the same lemon-printed sticky pad for the lastfifteen years, and she used it to write reminders for me and Shiloh. And now, just me.
I put Amelia in Shiloh’s room and Quinn in the guest bedroom, she wrote.
When I realized my sailboat would need to go in for repairs and I couldn’t sleep in it while I was in town for the wedding, I should have gotten a hotel room. Asmarterman would have gotten a hotel room instead of spending even more time with the woman he needed to avoid.
Something about Amelia had always made it hard for me to think clearly.
