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said.
    “Hey, Ash. How’s Princess Ella doing?”
    “Keeping me up nights,” Ashley said with a little whine. “I don’t know how mothers train their babies to sleep at night.”
    “She’s only two months, Ash,” Faith said. “Let Ron take care of her at nights, so you can rest.”
      Ashley chuckled. “He’s so great with her, and he usually does night feeding. I guess that’s the problem. He left for a firemen’s convention yesterday, so now it’s just me with Ella.”
    “When is he coming back?”
    “In two days. One day without him I’m falling apart.” She sniffled. “Where are you? Can you come over?”
    Faith adjusted the wireless cell phone headset. “On Highway One, heading to Barbs’ place in Malibu. Do you want me to come over later?”
    “No. I’m fine. I guess I’m a bit lonely without Ron. Why Malibu this late? That’s an hour and a half drive from your place.”
    “An hour,” Faith corrected her. Her cousin wasn’t the cry-during-a-crisis type. “What’s really going on, Ash?”
    “I should be asking you that question. I heard you and Ken Lambert have been getting pretty cozy.”
    Liz and her big mouth. “I hardly call having lunch together cozy.”
    “Not when he asks for a private cabana and lowers the flaps. I thought you said months ago that he was too handsome and too full of himself,” Ashley added. “I said the same thing about Ron before we hooked up.”
    Faith chuckled. “If I recall correctly, I said Ken was too intense.”
    “Same difference. So? Tell me what’s going on.”
    “We just had lunch. Okay?”
    “So you won’t be seeing him again?”
    Faith rolled her eyes and sighed. If she said no, and a relative saw them together, Ash would not leave her alone until she got to the bottom of their relationship. She wasn’t ready to tell her family about the stolen designs yet.
    “I don’t know, Ash. Maybe.”
    “What kind of an answer is that? Is it him? He’d better not be playing games with you or I’ll tell Ron to deal with him.”
    “Wow, slow down. Ken and I are just friends.” Faith stepped on the breaks as another car cut in front of her without indicating. Bastard. “Besides, Ron and Ken are tight. You never want to come between buds.”
    “Then I’ll talk to Chase. Baron’s mellowed since he got engaged to Kara. Are you sure nothing is going on? Ken couldn’t keep his eyes off you the day of my wedding.”
    If only Ash knew what transpired afterwards. “You mean you actually noticed someone other than your man that day?”
    “Couldn’t miss the smoldering glances he threw your way if I tried.”
    “That was your overactive imagination. I got to go, Ash. The traffic is getting heavy.”
    “Just a sec. Are we still on for Friday night?”
    Faith tried to remember what was happening on Friday. Then it hit her. Girls’ night out. Since Ashley had the baby and Jade left on archeological dig after her wedding, they’d stopped hanging out every other Friday like they used to.
    “Are you sure you’re up to it with the baby and all?” Faith asked.
    “Don’t you dare use Ella as an excuse to back out, Faith Fitzgerald. I miss you and Jade. Come right after work. I want to hear about your date with Ken.”
    She wasn’t going to let this go. “I’ve got to go. Heavy traffic.”
    “Careful driving.”
    Faith chuckled. “See you on Friday, worrywart.”
    An hour later, she pulled up outside the gated home on the Encinal Bluffs. The guard let her in and she parked beside high-end vehicles lining Barb’s cobbled driveway. It looked like she was the last to arrive.
    Faith hoisted her computer bag and the larger tote bag with fabric samples and hurried to the back door, which opened before she could ring the doorbell. Samuel Riggins, Barbs’ husband, smiled down at her, gray eyes twinkling from behind horn-rimmed glasses.
    “Faith,” he said and enveloped her in a warm hug. “How are you doing?”
    “Fine, Mr. Riggins,” she