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“Several o,” I remind her “I’ve always been the traveler of the family This isn’t really that unusual for me”

“Oh, Sebastian I hope you knohat you’re doing”

I kiss her cheek, pick updown the hall in the direction of where a car is waiting to take me to my plane

I hope I knohat I’, as well

Chapter One

Nina

“I’M NEVER GETTING married”

Silence I’ at a table with three of et for my announcement is blank stares

“Never say never,” Jenna says “I didn’t think I’d get married either”

“Same,” Willa adds and sips her coffee

“You’ve been married twice,” I remind her

“I’,” Willa continues, “that after et ain”

“I definitely didn’t plan to get rees “But then I met Noah, and have you seen him?”

I sit and stare ather my sister-in-law And despite the fact that I initially—and erroneously—thought she wasn’t right for hiine our lives without her

Willa is married to Jenna’s brother, Max

As a instructor, I see Fallon more than anyone else, and she’s quickly become one of my closest friends

We’re just one big—very big—happy family

“Why don’t you think you’ll geta bite of a delicious huckleberry scone I know it’s delicious because I just devoured oneback for another

Drips & Sips does two things very well: coffee and scones

“It’s just a lot of poal contract Also, what if it turns out he’s an asshole? Or he can’t stand me? Then we have to pay a bunch of ”

“You’re such a romantic,” Willa says with a snort

“I’irls love the romance stuff But not me”

“You don’t like it when a s you flowers?” Jenna demands

“Or surprises you with fun things?” Willa adds

“Or, you know, has sweet, slow sex with you?” Fallon asks

I wouldn’t know

No one’s ever done those things for me

And I’ve done just fine without them in my thirty-one years on this planet, thank you very much

“It’s all a front,” I say at last “It’scoverings I just want to get to the nitty-gritty and then get on with my life”

“So not a romantic,” Willa mutters and finishes her coffee “And that’s okay Not everyone is But you never know, soive you butterflies and thoughts of happily ever after”

I cock an eyebrow “I doubt it”

“She’s a lost cause when it comes to love,” Jenna informs her “But that’s okay We’ll keep her around”

“Thanks” I laugh and decide to forgo the extra scone I’ve been slacking on the exercise front and need to get uys up to the rest of the day?”