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mouth to mouth.
    Laura, Tye couldn’t help but notice, watched the pair, a big smile splitting her face. Katie, however, blushed and looked everywhere but at Tye. Maybe he still had a chance.
    “You guys need to get a room.” Laura patted Will gently on the butt. “Somewhere else.”
    “Got it covered.” Will came up for air and grinned. “You ready to go, Mrs. Will?”
    “Uh-huh. You betcha.” Abbie smiled her goodbyes, then shrieked as Will swung her up into his arms and over his shoulder in a fireman’s carry. “If you make me hurl, you’re not getting any!”
    Will’s answer was lost in the playful smack he delivered to her ass as he headed towards their truck. Abbie’s goodbye wave to her friends as she bounced away said it all. Tye figured the pair wouldn’t come up for air for the rest of the afternoon.
    “Those two,” Laura said fondly. “You should have seen them at the wedding. It was positively pornographic.”
    She didn’t seem to mind, though, and even Katie was smiling. “They’re happy,” she said, and for once she and Tye were in agreement. Abbie and Will weren’t subtle, but they both seemed happy. Tye’s feet, however, seemed glued to the porch. He should be beating a strategic retreat down the path to his truck but he didn’t want to go.
    Nope. He wanted to pull up a chair and stay. Today. Tomorrow. Hell, the rest of the summer if Katie would have him.
    He thought about that for a moment. The idea should have scared the pants off of him. He wasn’t a stay put or a commitment kind of guy, other than his marriage to Uncle Sam and Spec Ops. And yet Katie... was an exception to that rule.
    Laura eyed him speculatively, then extended a plastic flute to him. He was fairly certain it had been Abbie’s. “Drink?”
    He shook his head. “I’m driving.”
    He didn’t drink alcohol. He’d seen too many good men try to drown the night demons. Playing bottoms-up with a whiskey glass or a beer bottle was a solid strategy for a few nights, but that plan always went to hell. He’d decided he’d play it safe. No alcohol. No chance of losing control.
    “Orange juice?” Laura volunteered at the same time that Katie chimed in with, “Then see you.”
    Katie’s voice had that soft edge that said she wasn’t drunk, but that she was just the slightest bit tipsy. Good thing she was home and not driving. He crouched down beside her, ignoring Laura. Citrus wasn’t what he needed.
    “You and I have unfinished business.”
    “I think we finished up yesterday,” she said darkly. “When you fell off the Segway? Consider that the period to our relationship.”
    He hadn’t been aware that they had a relationship. “You asked me to help you work through Kade’s bucket list.”
    “Uh-huh.” Her face wasn’t encouraging. She shoved her glass at Laura without looking at the other woman. “Fill it up.”
    He looked at Laura. “Is this your usual Sunday morning plan?”
    Katie’s hand slapped his knee. “I’m right here.”
    “Yeah. You sure are.”
    “What’s that supposed to mean?” She eyed him suspiciously.
    Laura passed the glass back. Right in front of Tye’s face like he wasn’t there. “That’s the last inch. We’ve killed the bottle.”
    He wasn’t so sure they had, but Laura was looking out for Katie, and that he was on board with.
    “Damn.” Katie finished the glass, making a face at the orange juice pulp at the bottom. “That’s nasty. And, no, I’m not drunk.”
    His lips twitched. “I never said you were.”
    “You were thinking it,” she accused.
    He was close enough that her knees brushed his arms when she leaned over to set her glass on the porch floor. He caught a whiff of her perfume, all those small, feminine tells. Some kind of floral detergent. Warmth of her skin. And Katie... something that was one hundred percent, uniquely Katie. He dimly registered that he was most definitely in her personal space, but backing off was no longer part of the mission

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