Page 199 of The Defiant Curse

To Gabby, ‘bitch’ was a term of endearment.

And to her, too.

“What the heck?” Gabby asked. “When the team rolls out, they get ALL of the members!”

Elizabeth was honest.

“I couldn’t sleep, and Ethan and I wanted cookies. This was a side quest. More importantly, the necklace is a heart!” she said. “Bitch.”

Gabby laughed.

Apparently, they had new pet names for each other.

“Uh, okay,” Michael stated. “Congrats. You still have shape recognition after all those hits to the noggin.”

She sighed.

“Guys, she told me in my sleepwalking dream, that I needed to find her heart, and then we could break the curse. That’s a HEART! I just found a heart! That’s not going to be a freaking coincidence!”

Holy shit.

Gabby got closer.

“Me next! I want a look!” she said.

Unfortunately for Gabby, her husband walked into the room just as she said that, and he wasn’t having it.

“Gabriella! If you think you’re riding some dude’s shoulders in the middle of the night, who isn’t me, you’ve lost your mind!”

She giggled.

“What was I thinking?” she asked.

To avoid Gabby missing out, it was time to get it down. There was no way she was sitting on her husband’s shoulders. That was her domain, and she wasn’t sharing.

So, Elizabeth lifted the frame, and it slid off of the rail it had been on, and it was NO easy task.

“Well, Graham wasn’t kidding. That didn’t fall off on a whim,” she said, handing the painting down to Gabby.

Then, she slid off Ethan’s shoulders, and he caught her body against his.

“Next time, sit the other way on my shoulders,” he whispered in her ear, knowing she’d get it.

Holy shit.

That sounded like the best plan ever.

She cupped him through his pajamas, and someone was turned on.

Yeah, her too.

It was clear that this little adventure together had been the perfect way to find each other again, because Ceit’s heart wasn’t the only thing that had been lost.

Only, she had to focus.

“It’s definitely a heart,” Gabby said. “Elizabeth is right.”

The woman laughed.