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"So you’re in love with this loser, huh?" Liah bubbled past my lips, and my eyes darted over to Kristi and then Brandon, ere both s patiently, and I could only assume from their looks that they’d told the rest of the family about my decision "Uh yeah Yeah, I aave her a look

Konrad, her husband, pulled her back and put a hand over her ed "Don’t listen to her"

There werefro bed when Konrad dropped his hand

"Don’t you shush me," she bit out at him, then looked back at me "Well, I still want to know"

I looked at Liam’s parents and sister, and both sets of his aunts and uncles, and tried to find the right words I knew Liam was close with his family, so I wouldn’t have doubted that they all knehat had been going on between us over the past e blowup over Thanksgiving and me on our way over here, so I felt like I owed theure out how ive them--not to mention that this was an incredibly aard situation

"You don’t have to answer that," Lia his hand, I held on to it as tight as I could "There’s nothing between Rhys and ain I told hily okay with it"

Bree still looked like she was hoping forat her or givingrude," Liam’s mom said to Bree, then looked back toward us, "I think it’s tiry?"

Liahtened, because he whispered, "Banana pancakes"

"I can do this," I said to h

"Yes, you can It won’t be that bad, I proht They weren’t that bad Actually, the pancakes were to die for, and if Liaone back for thirds Liaether, and everyone else in the fa roo

"How many did you eat?" Liam asked when he set his plate on top of mine on the end table

"Six," I boasted proudly "My sto pancakes I’"

"Don’t ruin this moment This aftereffect of the pancakes is better than the ones froive me"

Liam hooked an arm around my neck and pulled me close so he could whisper, "I somehow doubt that But if you still think so in five minutes, I’ll have to remind you howalready?"

"Why would we have to leave? There are a lot of bathrooms and bedrooms in this house"

"Lia in your parents’ house"