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“Are they not hot any She slu another cookie into her mouth

“Still hot,” Lexi confir to them as the ‘threesome of hotness’ sounds really sordid”

“The trinity of hotness?” Sutton suggests, seee of ‘threesomes’

“That’s not any better,” Lexi says “And possibly religiously offensive”

“Uh, hello?” I interrupt because I can’t take it any about?”

As the only one of us who didn’t grow up in Reindeer Falls, this happens to me occasionally There will be some important Reindeer Falls backstory that I’ic There’s always so and new to learn about the best town on the planet—outside of the North Pole, of course

“The Sheppard brothers,” Sutton explains, a wistful sigh in her voice “Ryan, Jake and Carter The three raduate froh School”

“Santa definitely blessed thereehty list”

“But sadly, they were not meant to be in Reindeer Falls forever,” Sutton continues “They all left for college and never came back Their parents sold the house and moved to Miami for the snowbird life and I suppose the boys all ended up in cities cooler than this one”

I gasp “Take that back!” I sputter

Sutton rolls her eyes “I love Reindeer Falls, Maggie You know I do But it’s not exactly a place young single s are sliood ones”

“Mrees “I tried to talk to Joe about it a few ti for a visit—”

“Who’s Joe?” I ask

“My neighbor,” Lexi explains “The one who passed away a fewlike that”

“Oh, right” I say “I know you loved that old guy”

Lexi nods “Ryan inherited his house Carter inherited his dog And I don’t knohat Jake inherited” She pauses, looking a little wistful “I’oing to leave him to me”

“Wait,” I say, putting all of this inforuys areinto that empty house by you, Lexi?”

“I don’t know if any of theh to claim their inheritances and sell the house”