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plans at least once a week. The game they’d started had become somewhat amusing, especially since I could make fun of their efforts with Molly. “Nope. They know how to pour on the pressure though.”
    “Wait until they drop by your work for a tour. That’s when you know they’re really getting serious. They aren’t the least bit interested in design or construction work.”
    I chuckled, glad I’d listened to Molly’s first warning. I couldn’t know just how involved they’d get in trying to one up each other if I slept with one or the other. “So,” I drew out because Molly was having a little too much fun at my predicament. “What are you doing about Tessa?”
    She whipped her head around. Suspicious brown eyes bored into me. “What about Tessa?”
    “C’mon, Molly, I’m an outsider. You can tell me.” She needed to tell someone. If she talked it out maybe she’d see how difficult her quest would be.
    “Tell you what?”
    Her earnest tone gave me pause. I didn’t want to force her to talk about it, but I wanted to let her know she could trust me. “You like her, right?”
    “No. I mean, sure. We’re buddies and she’s going through a rough time.” She couldn’t keep my gaze.
    “A rough time that includes crying over a chick who never loved her and being willing to take that chick back when another chick is pining for her.”
    As convoluted as my observation was, she seemed to follow it. She held up a hand to wave me off. “No way, man.”
    “Like I said, I’m an outsider. If you need someone to talk to, I’m your woman.”
    She seemed to consider that for a moment. “I’m not hung up on her.”
    “She’s single, she’s pretty, she’s your type.” I counted each point on my fingers.
    “How do you know my type?” Her gaze came back to mine with that familiar playful smile on her lips.
    “Tessa, Glory, J&B. You like the pretty ones but not the gorgeous ones like Vivian, or I assume that’s why you never made a play for her.”
    Her head dipped back, eyes large and amused. “They’re the only ones in town.”
    “There was Nat.”
    “Nat’s hotter than pretty.”
    “That’s for sure,” I agreed. “Which brings us back to Tessa and your unrequited longing.”
    Her laugh was a sharp bark this time. “Zip it, sister.”
    “All right, but I’m a good listener.”
    She sighed and admitted, “Kathleen’s a bitch.”
    “Is she a bitch for what she did to Tessa?” I gave her a second to ponder that before posing, “Or is she a bitch because she can get Tessa back in a second even being the bitch she is?”
    Molly’s gaze pinned me in place. That one hit home. “Let’s talk about you. Ever have a thing with Natalie?”
    I choked in surprise. “She was way too young when I knew her.” When I met her, I should say. We’d established our relationship as big sister and little sister. No way I’d screw that up even when she got all hot and stuff.
    “Otherwise you would have been all for her?” Molly’s teasing tone resurfaced.
    “I like the pretty ones, too.” Which was why I’d never gone for the toned, non-girly types like Molly. When pretty was around, all other types got lost in the background.
    “And Nat’s not pretty?”
    “She’s hot, alluring, magnetic.” Sexy androgynous rather than pretty.
    “Sizzling and very attached.”
    “Yep, and I’m really happy for her.” Envious, too.
    “Me, too, for Viv.”
    “So, we’re just two chicks happy for our close friends who are madly in love and looking for love ourselves?”
    “In a tiny town with almost no singles around, yep.” She raised her coffee mug to mine to clink. After taking a swig, she settled back next to me.
    I didn’t get nervous that we’d run out of things to talk about while the game was on. I didn’t get nervous that it would be awkward to get this couch ready to crash on tonight. I wasn’t even nervous about seeing her in the morning after taking advantage of her hospitality. We had