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for?”
    “Thank
you,” she said, her dark eyes glinting with renewed impishness.
    “For
the kiss?” He lifted an eyebrow.  He couldn’t remember ever being thanked for a
kiss, at least not in words.
    She
shook her head.  “For reining me in.  Sometimes I can be such a hothead.  I
needed that.”
    If
her kiss had bewildered him then her admission surprised him even more.  It
took a special woman to admit…so willingly…that she’d been wrong – and he
admired her for that.
    He
bent his head to give her a quick kiss on the forehead.  “Come on,” he said
with a smile that told her all was well.  “Let’s go have some lunch."

CHAPTER
SEVEN
     
    “Get
your little butt in there.”  Silken gave her sister a shove toward her bedroom
closet.  “Pick out a nice little outfit and let’s get going.”
    “I
told you, I’m not going.”  Suave planted her feet firmly on the carpeted floor
and folded her arms.  “This is your date, not mine.”
    Silken
let out her breath in an exasperated sigh.  “For the eleventeenth time I told
you, it’s not a date.  Max is having his brothers over for dinner and he said
it would be great if I could come and you, too.”
    “Right.”
Suave’s tone dripped with sarcasm.  “He invited you and then you went and
tacked me onto your invitation, didn’t you?”
    Silken
looked away then walked over to the closet and began rifling through Suave’s
clothes.
    “Didn’t
you?”
    God,
why couldn’t Suave just let it go ?  “Well…not exactly.”  Silken’s voice
grew muffled when she stuck her head farther into the closet, hoping that Suave
would just let it drop.  But she knew Suave, and that wasn’t going to happen.
    “So
what exactly did you say?”  There was that bulldog tone again.  Once
Suave had chomped down, she was going to thrash and wrestle until Silken gave
in from sheer exhaustion.
    Realizing
she might as well come clean and save herself the inevitable fight, Silken
withdrew from the closet and went over to the bed where she plopped down.  “I
said,” she bobbed her legs up and down, not looking at Suave, “I’ll come meet
your brothers if my little sis can come, too.”
    Suave
gave her a look of horror.  “You did not say that.”  At Silken’s nod she began
to sputter.  “That sounds so…juvenile.  What are we, in kindergarten?” She
clenched and unclenched her fists then swung her arms, looking for all the
world like she didn’t know what to do with herself.  Then she shook her head
and heaved the mightiest of sighs, like she’d finally realized the futility of
trying to reform her sister.
    “You’re
going on a date, Silken,” she said slowly, carefully, as if speaking to a
toddler.  “You don’t bring your sister along on a date.”
    For
a long while Silken just sat there, staring at Suave.  Finally, she gave a hrumph
and hopped off the bed.  “Fine.  If you’re not going then I’m not going
either.  I’ll call Max and tell him right now.”  Holding her head straight, not
giving Suave another glance, she flounced past her and out of the room.
    Suave
gasped then ran after her.  “Silken, are you crazy?  You can’t cancel your date
because of me.  You have to go.”
    Silken
stopped and turned then she shrugged.  “No, I don’t.  I’ll just tell Max
something came up,” then her eyes narrowed, “or that I have to stay home with
my sister.”
    Suave
narrowed her eyes back at Silken.  “Then he’d hate me for ruining his plan. 
You wouldn’t.”
    “I
would.”
    Suave
began to pout then her shoulders slumped and she expelled her breath in a soft
whoosh, a sure sign that she was accepting defeat .  Smart girl.
    “All
right,” she said.  “I’ll go with you,” she stuck a finger in Silken’s face, “but
we’re going in separate cars.  When I’m ready to leave, I’m leaving.  You’re
not going to have me stuck there till all hours of the night when I want to get
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