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truck.”
    “I think you’re scared of being alone in the car with your wife,” Finn teased.
    “I wouldn’t be so full of yourself,” Mandy said. “Emma and Sophie know you two were arrested, too. I called them before I came down here.”
    “You tattled on us?” Finn was incensed.
    “I had no idea how long I would be down here, and I didn’t want them to worry,” Mandy replied, nonplussed. “I don’t tattle.”
    “Does Ally know?” James asked.
    “I told Jake.”
    “And I suppose that wasn’t tattling either?” Grady asked, scowling.
    “I’m not apologizing,” Mandy said, placing her hands on her hips. “Now get in the car. I’ll drive you to the Explorer.”
    “Why don’t you let me drive?” James asked, holding his hands out for the keys. He had no idea why Mandy insisted on driving a Focus. When her first car exploded, she’d bought the exact same model several weeks later. He hated the car. He still didn’t want her to drive.
    “I can drive my own car,” Mandy shot back.
    “I didn’t say you couldn’t,” James replied carefully. “Are you mad?”
    “Why would I possibly be mad?”
    “I don’t know, because you had to bail us out of jail?” Finn supplied.
    “Thanks for helping,” James growled.
    “No problem.”
    “Get in the car,” Mandy repeated.
    “I know where the Explorer is,” James said. “I can get us there faster.”
    “No, you just don’t trust me to drive,” Mandy argued. “You never let me drive.”
    “I let you drive,” James protested.
    “When?”
    “I … .”
    “When have you ever let me drive?”
    The stiff set of Mandy’s shoulders was enough to make James uncomfortable. He didn’t like the stern expression on her face – although, for some reason, he found it adorable.
    “Fine. Drive.”
    “Great,” Mandy said, pointing to the car. “Get in.”
    When they got to James’ Explorer, all three men piled out of the car.
    “I’ll see you at home, baby.” James blew her a kiss and started to shut the door.
    Mandy ignored him, her frame unnaturally rigid as she stared out the front window of the car.
    James straightened, fixing his brothers with a worried expression. “Maybe you guys should take the Explorer back. I’ll ride with her.”
    “She’s pissed,” Finn said. “Maybe you should give her some time to calm down.”
    “I think she’s more pissed about the driving than she is the arrest,” Grady said. “How come you never let her drive?”
    “I don’t know,” James said, keeping his voice low. “I just like to drive.”
    “Yeah? Well, she’s going to be driving you around the bend tonight,” Grady replied. “We’ll park the Explorer in the driveway and leave the keys in the mailbox.”
    “What? Are you scared to come in the house?”
    Grady inclined his head in Mandy’s direction. “I’ve seen that look before. You two are about to go ten rounds and then make up. I don’t want to be there for either of those things.”
    James ran his hand through his hair, glancing back down at his pouting wife. “Well, at least I have the making up to look forward to.” He slid back in the passenger seat. “I’m going to ride with you, baby.”
    “Should I thank you now or later?” Mandy’s tone was dripping with sarcasm, causing James to grimace.
    Mandy followed Grady and Finn as they pulled onto the expressway, setting the cruise control once the traffic lessened.
    “So, baby, how was your day?”
    “Great.”
    James rolled his neck, cracking it as he tried to relax. Watching his wife zip in and out of traffic was driving him crazy, and he found his hands constantly resting against the console as his body braced for an impact he was sure was about to come.
    “Stop doing that,” Mandy ordered.
    “I’m not doing anything.”
    “I’ve been driving for ten years,” she said. “I know what I’m doing.”
    “I didn’t say you didn’t.”
    “Oh, good grief,” Mandy said. “Do you want me to pull over so you can