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The girls gathered around the bar setup while the guys unpacked soht over and poked around the apartment

“The expedition has found theinary microphone as he tiptoed around the aparts goalie Very few explorers have caught a glimpse of his territory, let alone been invited inside his den” He tugged open a closet door and juht juames when he never has anyone over?” He pulled out a stack of five classic gaot wide, and he sniffed the ga on the Kings’ turf “Has he been inviting other people over to play without us? Going out to drinks with theames onto the table “How dare he?”

The front door burst open, and Ford slaers will be here in half an hour”

Raiding the bar area in his kitchen, I ers arrived with a solid knock to the door A sweaty guy with an una of food, and Ford slipped him a massive wad of bills

I helped Ford unpack everything and get it onto plates In the kitchen orked together, every brush and buht back to where his hands had been and where I wanted theain

I had to keep re, not to reach out and touch him like I wanted to

With full sto the cranberry-orange mimosas I whipped up for dessert Who said mimosas are only for brunch?

“You two are ringers This isn’t fair” Declan thren his Scrabble tiles and walked away froust

“It’s okay; you’ve got hed and set down her last tiles: I and S She shrugged “I tried, and I’m damn proud of my thirty points”

“You’re killing me, Books You’re supposed to clean the floor with theed her to him

“If we’re talking purse-string sutures to close a wound, I’al, but Scrabble…I’ll leave that to the professionals” Mak dropped off her dishes in the kitchen

The last two turns were me and Ford I had 438 He had 442

His gaze juame board to the tiles in front of hi his temples The intense concentration looked sexy on him He wasn’t just a worthy competitor in online Scrabble

I rearranged ods slanced around the rooreat friends—this hat I’d alanted I slipped two of my tiles back ontothe Q-U still on my tray

“The fierce competitors are locked in a battle for dominance” Heath slipped back into commentator mode