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“Yep”

“You raising Black Angus? Or Herefords?”

Tell studied her It’d been a while but he still recognized the switch—cranking the char froullible teen boy he’d been “Do you really care?”

That caught her by surprise “Yes Why would I ask if I didn’t?”

“’Cause small talk ain’t ever been your style”

She didn’t deny it

He took it a step further “Besides, I get the feeling you caht lookin’ for me”

“Cocky much? I didn’t ask you to join me, Tell So feel free to leave”

And that retort was so old-school Georgia-like he had to grin “There’s the glare I re you do”

“Fake flirting? You don’t think much of me, do you, McKay?”

“I haven’t seen you in a decade and I ain’t gonna pretend I know you Likewise, you don’t know ht-shooter If you wanna continue this conversation, you’d best be up front about what you want froia laughed “Now I remember why I always liked you”

“Because I was easilyoff those one-liners every chance you get in an attempt to charm and distract”

Ouch He deserved that It surprised hietting soht I did co to the class reunion in teeks”

“I’d planned on going to the Saturday night stuff, but not the Friday family picnic”

“Do you have a date?”

Why did his heart rate spike? “Not yet Why?”

She blurted, “Will you be my date?”

After the shock wore off, Tell leaned forward “For real, Georgia?”

“For real I hadn’t planned on going to the reunion What a fun way to spend an evening, dealing with the stares, rude comments and whispers about why Deck and I are divorced Or hearing about what a tragedy it was that RJ got killed driving drunk”

“So what changed youryou last night”

Don’t fall for it Demand a solid reason “Because…?”

“Because you kno to have fun And if I ith you, I e of heart about revisiting those glory days isn’t because Deck hates uts and it’d be a hard poke at him to shoith me on your arm?”