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"I’d better be," he muttered

Another male voice boomed from behind as a man with a dark buzz cut and the body of an action hero strode inside "Where’s Jane?" he de downstairs for twentyme"

The newcomer stared at Matt’s and Aidan’s faces and swore "For the love of Jesus, do you guys require twenty-four hour supervision? Every tiets into a brawl!"

Jane pushed her way through the group and threw her ar it for fun tonight Now say hi to Claire Claire, this isand boisterous as Jane had wound up with so a hand

"Claire is Aidan’s girlfriend," Jane told her husband

"Nice toto his wife "I’ve been waiting downstairs for a while I tried to call to let you knoas picking you up early, but you weren’t answering your phone"

"Oh, shoot, it must have been on silent Sorry, hon" Jane leaned up on her tiptoes and kissed his square jaw "How er do we have the sitter for?"

Becker’s dark eyes flickered with heat "An hour and a half"

The next thing Claire knew, the couple was practically sprinting out the door with the quickest of goodbyes, whichSavannah and thank her for having theroup descended the narrow steps leading to the ground floor of Savannah’s building Outside, the night air was brisk, ht a coat Goose bumps rose on her bare arms, and she shivered as she followed Aidan to his SUV

"Call me," Jen told her when they reached the curb "We’ll have lunch this week"

"Sounds good," Claire answered

She hugged the blonde goodbye, then did the same with Miranda, Holly and Annabelle, who all piled into the Jeep waiting at the curb Claire didn’t recognize the dark-haired ave hier side, Claire deduced it was Ryan Evans, Annabelle’s fiancé

"I can’t believe you and Matt got into a fist fight tonight," Claire grumbled once she and Aidan were alone in the car

"Well, technically it was lared in the face of his dimpled smile "I told you you’re not allowed to use those dimples to distract me"

"What about my mouth? Can I use that to distract you?"