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wife?” Jinx chewed thoughtfully. “He seems to like blonds. I might even let him call me wifey’s name. What was that again? Helen?”
    “Harper,” Chloe said with a laugh. She knew Deacon far too well. The girls had met him at the Christmas party at Nick and Lila’s new house. He was huge, tattooed, and disgustingly devoted to his wife. “Sorry, not a chance.”
    “Damn. He’s probably a fucking stallion. Those thighs and shoulders…ugh. That back tattoo. So wrong.”
    Chloe picked around the dregs of their sampler platter and found a crab fry. “It’s like lusting after a brother.”
    “Even Nick?” Jinx grinned as she took another sip of Shark Attack number two.
    Chloe coughed around the last bite of her fry. “Nick was a long time ago.”
    “And we’ve never gotten the details.”
    “And you never will.” Chloe gulped down half a glass of water.
    “That bad?”
    “Teenage sex is not something I think about anymore.”
    Ivy sat back in her chair as she spun her drink in a puddle of condensation. “My best sexual encounter was at seventeen. Of course he was twenty-two.” She waggled her eyebrows. “Unfortunately, most have been duds ever since.”
    Jinx blew raspberries. “That’s because you pick prudish bookish types.”
    “Oh, I should go for the tattooed, biker assholes you go for?”
    Chloe grinned behind the rim of her glass. This was a conversation they had almost weekly, and it never stopped being entertaining. And reminded her—eternally—why she was firmly out of the dating pool these days.
    “Don’t go grinning over there.” Jinx laced her fingers over her middle as she tipped back in her chair. “You wouldn’t know an orgasm if it bit you on the boob.”
    Chloe frowned at her, then looked around the room. There were a lot of kids in this particular restaurant. “Really?”
    “What, like they haven’t heard the word boob before? Some of them are still on the boob, for God’s sake.”
    Okay. Time to go. Jinx a little rowdy in a bar was one thing. In a family restaurant—well, at least partially a family restaurant. Yep. Those Shark Attacks were potent enough that she signaled the waitress for the check. Room number flashy flashy and they were out and about again.
    “Why are you being such a prude? This is Vegas.”
    “Look, I’m a mom too.”
    “Not this weekend you’re not.” Jinx batted Chloe’s hand away as she pulled her down the huge domed hallway.
    “I’m always a mom. It comes with the kid.” She didn’t want to ruin anyone’s fun. And okay, she was probably overreacting a little. For the most part she didn’t care about curling into bed with someone. Hell, she was barely conscious by the time she actually found her bed. Between her job and Axl’s less than awesome nighttime habits, she was always in the negative column when it came to sleep.
    So, no a guy—especially one offering up an orgasm—was not high on her list. A guy offering to get up with an almost two-year-old who wanted a glass of water at two in the morning was more of a draw.
    But there were times that she missed sex.
    And seeing all the couples littering the hotel had given her more than one moment of jealousy. Sure, there were a number of families, but overall, Vegas was for lovers and people looking for a hook-up. And she couldn’t forget the gambling, though the three of them were more than willing to avoid the games.
    She playfully ran around Jinx and pushed her toward the jewelry store that she’d been begging to go into since they started shopping. It was dangerous to put a woman with no self-control into that arena, but she didn’t want them to fight.
    She didn’t want to own up to wanting a little something more.
    So, yeah, compromise using Nicky’s wallet. She tried not to wince when Jinx squealed and ran for the gemstone cases.
    Ivy and Jinx cooed over diamonds and tanzanite in various settings. Chloe ran her fingertips over the gilded edges of the display cases. Having a