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“You’re on board the engagement train now?” I looked at her over my shoulder as alked down the stairs “You’re not pissed anymore?”

“You teed up the ball and I hit it out of the park, Kathleen thinks we’re engaged and we need to use it to our advantage We can’t exactly show up at our nextand tell her it was a joke You heard her today We’d be dead in the water” Her lips pinched together like all thoseback

“I can get you a ring” Hunter walked beside Zara and looped her arh his

“You can? How much will it cost?” The skepticism dripped from each word

He patted her hand resting on his arm “Don’t worry about it I—”

“He knows a guy,” everyone chorused as alked into the kitchen

Everest set down his bowl of frosting “You’ll learn, Zara, that Hunter has a particular set of skills And we don’t ask how he things get done, but they get done He has connections even money can’t buy”

Hunter pulled up a stool “Can I see the ring?”

Zara fished it out of her pocket and handed it over

Hunter took a few pictures froles with his phone

He tapped out a few ot whenever he ‘fixed’ things With a sigh, he slipped his phone into his pocket “It’ll be here by the ti ‘Happy Birthday’”

“A ring? You ordered a ring through your phone to be delivered here” Zara pointed her finger at the floor between us

He shrugged and swiped his finger through the vanilla frosting “No big deal”

“He’s also the one who toldplanner”

“Even without that piece of vital inforether—“ we stu by the band between her two fingers “Can he really get us a ring?”