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Dinner with Leo is swiftly becoht, siven her so much trouble had decided to stop the silent treat baseball with the still inside hientleness You couldn’t help but like him
She didn’t kno Leo would fit into the picture once Mike cae when she ca people jealous, but she was actually looking forward to Mike’s reaction At least a little It would be quite interesting to see howanother e
She was looking out at the dark land, theabout Leo and Mike when she thought she heard so downstairs Then she heard
it again A soft thuht on wood
Ho, bro? she thought, frowning, as she put her bare feet to the rough floorboards and found her slippers Out her door and down the stairs, she stopped and looked over the banister of the second-floor landing A suspicious, flickering glow of blue light was co from what seemed to be the main level’s family room
She padded down the stairs and quietly around the corner of the kitchen Just as she suspected, here they were The things that go bu flesh
In the family room, with their backs to her, Eddie and Ricky were splayed out on the couch, thu a
“And one! Woop, woop! That’s right I’ his controller over his head as he did a little dance “I’”
“Don’t you , you little sneak thieves?” Mary Catherine said, and watched the kids jump
Eddie dropped his controller and lay facedown in front of the TV, pretending to sleep, as Ricky turned around, s bravely
“Mary Catherine Hi Um, you want to play winner?” he tried
“Don’t get cheeky withHeads on your pillows this instant, or I’ll dunk the both of you in your rooet you two night owls soo by fro of a good night’s sleep”
“Cow punish up and racing his brother out of the roo for the stairs
She’d turned off the set and was going back through the kitchen when she saw the full coffeepot Leo, on duty now out on the porch, must have just made himself some She primped in the mirror of the powder room and put her barn jacket over her pj’s before she poured a cup
She was going to kiss him, she decided with a s She’d been waiting for the right tiht