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years. I certainly know how to make pie.”
    Lily grinned at their friendly bickering and hurried toward the door.
    “Me come, me come.” Zoe attached herself to Lily’s left leg, giggling as her aunt struggled to walk with the child attached to her like a limpet.
    “Come in, Frannie. Welcome. Hello, Taylor. I’m glad you could come visit us.” Lily smiled at her friend and bent to greet the wide-eyed dark-haired boy holding tight to Frannie’s right hand.
    Hannah abandoned the apple pie and came up behind Lily to see who was at the door, hands still covered in flour.
    Lily put her arm around her grandmother’s shoulders. “Gram, you remember my friend Frannie. And this is her nephew, Taylor. Remember I told you they were coming for dinner?”
    “Of course I remember.” Hannah shot Lily a reproving look. “There’s not a thing wrong with my memory. Won’t you come in, dear? Now whose daughter are you? You look like one of the Hillsteads from up Sturgiss way.”
    Lily rolled her eyes at Gram’s fantasy as Zoe and Taylor eyed each other warily.
    “Boy,” Zoe said in an admiring tone, reaching out to touch Taylor’s soft dark hair.
    He giggled, and Zoe moved to the toy box in the alcove of the hall. She threw the lid up and began to exuberantly unload her treasures, all the while giving Taylor come-hither looks over her shoulder.
    He glanced inquiringly up at his aunt.
    “It’s okay, Taylor. You can go play.”
    The two aunts fondly watched their charges bond over a toy barn with tiny animals.
    Lily glanced at Frannie and giggled when she recognized the same sappy, adoring-aunt expression her own face wore whenever she looked at Zoe.
    “They’re gonna get along fine. Come on into the kitchen and meet Kaleb.”
    Her brother was still bent over a saucepan at the stove, his back to them. Hannah had gone back to the pie.
    “Frannie, this is my brother, Kaleb Sullivan. Kaleb, Frannie Myles.”
    Kaleb turned and Lily enjoyed the look of amazement on his face as he looked at Frannie. When she’d told him earlier that Frannie was coming to dinner, Kaleb had asked what Frannie was like, and unable to resist this chance to tease him a little, Lily had described her friend as tall and thin, with glasses and hair worn in a bun, all of which was true, but bore no resemblance to the stunning reality of Frannie.
    “Good to meet you, Kaleb.”
    Frannie sounded a little shy as she extended a hand, and Lily realized that she’d never really described her brother accurately to her friend, either. She’d just said he was tall and blond, which was an understatement.
    Kaleb, with thick, unruly blond hair falling over his forehead and smiling turquoise eyes, had been turning female hearts upside down since he was fourteen.
    “My pleasure, Frannie.” Kaleb recovered his equilibrium, wiped his hands down the front of his snug jeans and took Frannie’s hand in his big paw, shooting Lily a look that said he’d deal with her later.
    “Lily said you were bringing your nephew.”
    “Taylor, yes. He and your daughter are climbing into the toy box together, I’m afraid they’ve dumped everything on the floor.”
    “Good for them. Can I get you a glass of wine? I’ve got a bottle chilling in the fridge.”
    “I’d like that, thanks.”
    Lily watched with growing interest as the other two, both a little flushed, studied each other just a heartbeat too long.
    Wouldn’t it be nice if...
    But she stopped herself right there. Matchmaking was a risky endeavor, one she never deliberately undertook. And while she truly hadn’t given a single thought to the idea that Kaleb and Frannie might be attracted to each other, as the evening progressed, it would have been obvious to the most obtuse observer that something was happening between them.
    Frannie had to leave early so Taylor could get to bed, and after saying her own goodbyes at the door, Lily steered Hannah into the den and searched for a channel Gram wanted to watch so she