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a few errands to take care of, but I can be done by noon. You like pizza?”
    â€œYes.”
    â€œI’ll pick it up. Wanna come to my place?”
    She shook her head. “I can’t leave Tish…”
    â€œSo bring her with you.” He leaned forward and took her mouth in a warm kiss, already anxious to see her again. “You’re a package deal, right? No problem. Butch would chew my ankle if I didn’t invite her along.”
    Laughing, Sadie said, “All right, then. We’d be happy to accept.”

CHAPTER FOUR
    B UCK HAD JUST RETURNED from buying groceries when a knock sounded on his front door. Thinking it might be Sadie, he opened the door with a fat smile—which twisted to a scowl when he saw the faces of his friends Ethan and Harris.
    â€œWhat are you two doing here?”
    Harris shoved his way in. “What kind of welcome is that?”
    Butch rounded the corner in a near-hysterical tangent, slid to a halt when he saw it was only Harris and Ethan, and immediately quieted. His tail stopped wagging, and his little face showed his disappointment.
    Buck decided that he and Butch were in a bad way. They were two bachelors who’d accepted their fates, but hadn’t yet informed the ladies of the new plans.
    Ethan stepped past Buck. “Hey, Butch.” Then to Buck, he said, “You been torturing the little guy? He doesn’t look too happy.”
    â€œHe probably thought you were Tish.”
    â€œTish?” Harris straightened in interest. “What the hell kind of name is that for a woman?”
    â€œI think it’s cute,” Ethan argued. “She sounds like a woman with big boobs.”
    Harris laughed. “And an IQ of two.”
    â€œLooks who talking,” Buck accused. “Has anyone accused you of being bright lately?”
    Smug, Harris said, “Yeah. Clair.”
    â€œShe doesn’t count,” Ethan argued. “She married you, so she has to keep your ego healthy.”
    â€œActually,” Buck interjected, before they could start a debate on Harris’s intelligence or lack thereof, “Tish is fat and bald and this morning, she stole my underwear.”
    Both men wore comical faces of horror, until Buck began to chuckle. “She’s my neighbor’s dog. A Chihuahua. Butch took one look at her and fell madly in love.”
    â€œPoor guy,” Ethan said sympathetically. “I know just how rotten that feels.”
    â€œRight,” Harris sneered. “You knew Rosie forever before you realized you loved her.”
    â€œWrong. I always knew I loved her. I just didn’t realize I was in love with her. Besides, you’re no better. It wasn’t until you saw naked photos of Clair that you got the love bug.”
    Harris, ever sensitive about the photos Clair’s past boyfriend had taken without her knowledge, grew taut with anger.
    â€œNo fighting. It’ll upset Butch.” Buck turned his back on them and headed for the kitchen. “So do either of you yahoos believe in love at first sight?”
    â€œNo,” Harris said.
    â€œNo way,” Ethan agreed, then he added, “But Riley must.”
    Buck paused in the middle of putting cans of cola into the fridge. “That’s right. He took one look at Red and was a goner, wasn’t he?”
    â€œIn a big way,” Ethan agreed. He snagged a cola before Buck could put it away. “It was almost embarrassing, the way he branded her right off.”
    â€œI wish he was here.”
    Harris and Ethan looked at each other. Slowly they grinned with conspiratorial humor. Harris, being the bigger goof of the two, said, “Tell Uncle Harris what ails you.”
    â€œGo to hell.”
    â€œA woman ails him,” Ethan said. “I know the signs.”
    â€œIt was only a matter of time, you know.” Harris grabbed a can of cola, and together, he and Ethan made a toast. “Here’s to happily