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Tara arched a brow in Chloe’s direction, like look at our little lasses of wine, handing one to Chloe and another to Maddie Finally she took her own and lifted it "To a hell of a day and a very pretty bottom line"

Tara and Maddie drank deeply to that Chloe watched the inside her chest So ed so quickly Tara and Maddie, Ford and Jax, the spa, and of course, Sawyer, who’d made an indelible mark on her life, more than anyone else ever had She still didn’t knoould beco that sohts spin back to her sisters They would always be here for her She knew that now It wasn’t just a concept anymore It was a fact They were her anchor in a lifeti

Chloe set aside her untouched wine She wanted a clear head for this But more than that, she also wanted to be able to drive herself to Sawyer’s later tonight Thanks to their very busy schedule, it’d been six nights since she’d last been in his bed, nad in his ar but what they gave each other Funny, because she’d gone a whole year without sex, and now six days was too long Or was it simply Sawyer himself that she missed?

"I can’t believe it, really," Maddie said

Chloe started guiltily "What?"

Maddie began to paint her own toes with the baby-blue polish "How far we’ve co about Chloe’s sex life

Tara nodded "Do you realize that we’ve eacha vital part of ourselves to the inn?"

Chloe stared down at her sparkling toes "Is that it?" she wondered "Or is it that this place has given each of us so we needed?" When nobody spoke, she looked up Both her sisters were staring at her, eyes rabbed so one at each of the out ies I mean it"

"I have a better idea" Maddie stood up "Our first night here together we stayed up all night decorating our poor Charlie Brown Christet," Tara said "Chloe turned our faces and hair green with her facial and conditioner masks, remember?"

"Hey," Chloe said in her defense "It improved your skin, didn’t it?"

"Excuse et their attention, then cleared her throat dra to recount our adventures here, so pay attention And I do have a point"

"You going to get to it anytime soon?" Chloe asked

"Do you or do you not remember e decided to make this place a B&B?" Maddie asked "We--"

"We?" Tara interrupted, laughing "If we’re re, then let’s remember how it really happened, shall we? We didn’t decide anything, Maddie You two corralled , specifically the chef part And you did it by dangling Ford in front of ht?" Chloe responded dryly "And letus around in the ?"

Tara smiled "No, I really like that part A lot"

"Hello," Maddie said sternly "I’ here!" She paused for dramatic effect, but when Chloe and Tara just rolled their eyes, she sighed "Don’t you get it? We need to do so We need a ceremony for this milestone!"

"It’s too early for a Christmas tree," Chloe said

Maddie tossed up her hands "So unique To celebrate you," she said "To celebrate the spa thing" She scrunched up her face to think, then grinned wide, and then sluhed "That cheap date thing h "Half a glass and I’one Wait, I think I reme inadvisable conize it, it’d be you"

"Recognize this," Chloe said and flipped Tara off

"We need to o to thedamn well that they’d both shoot her down, tell her she was crazy, and then she could finally go jump Sawyer’s bones

And he had such fine bones, too…

"That’s brilliant!" Maddie stood up and grabbed thes!"

"Wait--what?" Chloe asked

"It’s a great idea," Maddie said, tugging the in her heels "Hold up"

"Why?" Maddie asked

"Because first, you’re drunk Second, I was totally kidding"

"Tell o of theether and jump up and down "Oh, coetshower!"

"But it’s pitch-black outside," Tara said

"Actually," Chloe said, "it’s a full moon" Too late, she clamped her mouth shut Dammit, she had plans for Sawyer and his nad bod beneath that full moon

"Yeah," Maddie said to Tara "It’s a full moon, pansy ass"

"You knohat?" Chloe shook her head "I don’t think it’s a good idea"

"You suggested it, genius," Tara re" But it was the disappoint in Maddie’s eyes that killed her "Okay, don’t do that Not the Baht you’d appreciate the fact that I’ that’s so you," Maddie said "After all, the spa was your baby"

"Yes, and I do appreciate it" And only a feeeks ago, Chloe would’ve been the first one out the door, not sitting here considering the fact that it was late and not altogether safe to be slipping and sliding around the springs She glanced at Tara, then back to Maddie, and sighed "Fine Jesus Why the hell not?"