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Rachel shook her head at her husband “They’re fighting I’ll go talk to Jules and you talk to Gabriel Then you can pick up the Corona”

“What could they be fighting about?” Aaron ran a hand through his dark curly hair

“Who knows? Maybe Julia rearranged his collection of bow ties without asking him”

“Hey” Rachel opened the door to her father’s forreeted her best friend with a wide smile “Rach! Hi”

The tomen embraced and Rachel settled herself in one of the co?”

“Fine”

“So what’s up with you and Gabriel?”

“Nothing”

“You lie like a carpet”

Julia turned away “Whatis up?”

“Gabriel is downstairs looking unhappy and you’re up here looking unhappy There’s tension in the house I don’t need to be a psychic to pick up on it”

“I don’t want to talk about it”

“Men are jerks”

“I can’t argue with that” Julia collapsed in the chair opposite her best friend, flinging her legs over the aret mad and take off for a couple of hours, but he always comes back” Rachel looked at her friend carefully “Do you want ht We’re fighting”

“What happened?”

“Ion He told me it’s terrible”

“He said that?” Rachel sat up in her chair, her voice raised

“Not in sowith hirinned wryly “I thought about it, but I didn’t want to have to clean up the blood”

Rachel laughed

“Why does he think your paper is terrible?”

“He thinks I’ to help”

“Sounds like Gabriel is trying to control your paper like he tries to control everything else I thought he was in therapy for that”

Julia was quiet for a moment

“I don’t want his If the paper needs work, I need to know that”

“He should kno to help you without saying your paper is terrible”

Julia exhaled in frustration “Exactly He says he wants to start a family withass”

Rachel lifted her hand and gestured for her friend to stop “Wait a minute He wants to have kids?”

Julia squire! I’?”