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"Not even close"

"I’ll wait for you, then If you think you can do a good job of this"

"Oh, I can do a great job of that"

River s out to pinch my elbow "What about you? You want Ivy to ?" Now Ivy’s brows spike "I’hter She’ll have so over o back to Oregon Not that I’lare at her

"I take it you two didn’t just meet yesterday"

"You actually believed that?" Ivy snorts "Alright, I’ve got to get back there now, before I kill uess you wouldn’t be interested in going out with us tonight, then?" River asks

And my heart rate skips a few beats This is new

Ivy stops and turns, that owl-like gaze of hers shuttering between the two of us "The three of us?"

"Four My brother, Roill corinning Irishman Yeah"

I don’t even have to ask to know that Rowen isn’t her type, despite his being char and hot Her type is broody and dark Basically, my brother

"So you’ll come? We’d love for you to coht, Amber?"

"Yeah, definitely Just maybe no shots" I’d like to be in control of aze hovers over River’s ar on inside that head of hers right now "Sure I’m in If I’m not dead by then Amber has my number"

The second she disappears, he pulls ainst each other It’s the first overt move on his part since he picked ht with h "Don’t you start that now, too"

"That’s the second ti your father’s a sheriff?"

I nod

"And I take it Ivy doesn’t like paying taxes?"

Taxes? I frown "UhI don’t know It wouldn’t surprise h" She see

His one eye narrows in question "WaitWhat exactly does a sheriff do in America?"

"Arrests people? Keeps the peace?" Wreaks havoc on a teenage girl’s love life? "My dad was the county sheriff He ran the entire police departe look passes over his face that I can’t read "That’s definitely different from sheriffs in Ireland They just collect taxes froham?"