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Chase sipped his beer "Howup?"

"Soure that’s the reason the whole faood look at hiht too I still think it’s weird he ain’t stayin’ here Especially since Mom and Dad stayed at his place in Arizona"

"You and Ava ain’t stayin’ here either," Ben pointed out

"You can’t faultto stay in Kane’s trailer, since it holds special significance for us" He waggled his eyebrows

"Right You and Ava are afraid Mo"

Chase shot hilance "We are needs Besides, maybe me’n thesex all night long"

"Now I’ll have to scrub ee, ain’t it cute how you’re always calling Ava the missus now?"

"Fuck off We’ll see how you act when you fall in love with the wo on her finger and call her yours" Chase hadn’t let grass grow under his feet where Ava was concerned As soon as she’d agreed to marry him, he’d whisked her off to Hawaii for a private cereaze auto animatedly with his Uncle Carson and Uncle Cal And she didn’t miss a beat when Steve Talbot horned in on their conversation What a rude asshole

"You seem to know the new bank prez pretty well"

"Sundance is a soin’ on between you and the banker?" Chase asked

Ben curbed his intent to remind Chase that Ainsley had a na"

"That wasn’t really an answer You lyin’ toI can talk about, okay? Can we just leave it at that?"

"I guess But I’ll remind you of all the times you felt entitled to poke your nose in h, to be honest, it only became a love life after I met the love ofnoises

"Jesus, you’re an asshole so my questions I just wanted to throw out that anyti else…just call me I owe you, for all the times you pulled my head outta my ass"

"Thanks, Chase I appreciate it"

"I ain’t one to brag, but I’ve gotten good at this touchy feely shit since otta see whatof jealousy when Chase swept Ava into his ar her soundly They were so in love, so attuned to each other--so oblivious to assorted faet a rooether His cousin’s wives, Channing, Macie, AJ, Ginger and India had babies propped on their hips His randkids Tell, Dalton, Brandt and Jessie had for room corner The rest of his cousins were outside because it was da in and out every ten seconds hadn’t done roups shifted He saw his sister-in-law Libby bustling around in the kitchen with Domini and Skylar No surprise Keely had cornered Gavin, but fro his own

He realized while a himself with his family’s antics, he’d lost track of Ainsley He turned and there she was "Hey I ondering where you’d gone off to"

"I’ve been behind you the last fifteen et overlooked in this fahtful comment pass "You’re welcome to share my section of wall if you don’t mind bein’ overlooked"

"Thank you" She scooted next to hiht next to him "You’re pretty quiet around your faewise, if you hadn’t noticed," he said dryly

"I met Quinn He’s…reserved"

"Only around people he doesn’t know"

She blinked at him "He doesn’t know his faed "It’s always been that ith us"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>