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Mace’s hand slipped into mine.
I looked at him.
“What?”
“Nothing.”
“That isn’t nothing.”
He smiled.
“I was remembering.”
“What?”
“How incredible you are.”
Warmth moved through my chest.
“You’ve already used that line.”
“It still works.”
“It might.”
Max stretched out in the grass beside us.
His eyes closed.
For once, he wasn’t searching.
Wasn’t guarding.
Wasn’t listening for danger.
He was simply resting in the sun.
Wolf and Nora stood near the new playground.
Trigger and Rylie remained beside Elizabeth.
The Magnolia Ladies had filled three picnic tables with enough food for the entire county.
Mabel waved one hand at us.
“Are you two going to stand there making googly eyes all afternoon?”
Mace sighed.
“They’re never letting that go.”
“No.”
“Does it bother you?”
I looked around Eagle River.
At the Rangers.
