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he makes the rest of you
pale in comparison,” Mischa said as she dropped her tray onto the table.
    “Only for you, baby,” Clint told her, coming up to wrap his
arms around her and pull her back against his chest. He nuzzled her neck and
shoulder until she turned her head up for his kiss.
    Jacey walked back to Jonas. She took his beer from him and
set it down before stepping into him and running her arms up his sides to his
shoulders. “Maybe I just wanted to save the best for last,” she said.
    Wasn’t that just what she’d done? Sure, there had been plenty
of men before Jonas, but looking into his eyes, she knew that there would never
be another like Jonas. He was the best in so many ways. And she hoped, prayed,
that he would be her last.
    She leaned up and kissed him softly on the mouth, gradually
letting him turn the kiss into something deeper. When she pulled back, the
words just tumbled out. “I love you, Jonas.”
    He grinned and hugged her tighter. “I love you too, Jacey.”
    “So who’s ready for the pool?” Mischa asked and pulled off
her cover-up, tossing it aside.
    “I definitely need a cool dip with you in that, honey,”
Clint said.
    “Man, I’m going to look so pale next you,” Dee sighed as she
removed her cover-up too. “You make me want to tan.”
    Mischa laughed. “All the tanning in the world won’t give you
my gorgeous skin tone, baby.”
    “I like you just the way you are,” Jack told Dee just before
he pushed her into the pool.
    She came up sputtering. “I’m going to kill you slowly,
Jack,” she swore, shaking her soaked hair out of her face.
    “I’ll help,” Mischa said and gave him a shove in after his
girlfriend.
    They were all laughing when he surfaced and wrapped his arms
around Dee.
    “You going to let your wife push me around like that?” he
asked Clint with a grin.
    “You know, everything changes when you get married,” Clint
said with a sigh.
    “And I know you mean that in an ‘Oh, my god, I’m the
luckiest man alive’ kinda way,” Mischa said with her hands on her hips.
    Clint gave an exaggerated sigh and scooped her up in his
arms. Mischa squealed and wiggled but he held her firm.
    “When you’re married, you jump in together,” he said and
plunged feet first into the deep end.
    They both came up laughing and Mischa wrapped around her
husband. “Togetherness is important.”
    Jonas opened the grill and flipped the steaks, moved the tin-foil
potatoes around a bit. When he shut the lid again, Jacey was there waiting.
She’d tossed her cover-up aside and now had on her little red bikini. He
automatically reached out and put his arm around her, pulling her into his
side.
    “I’m glad we decided to cook out,” she said.
    “Me too,” he told her.
    “I wonder how long everyone will stay,” she said as she
leaned her head on his shoulder.
    “Why?” he asked. “You have something going on later?”
    “Well, I told you that we went to the toy store, right?”
    “Yeah, I seem to recall you mentioning that.”
    “I picked up a little something while I was there, something
that I think you might enjoy trying out with me.”
    “What’s that?” he cleared his throat and asked.
    “I picked up this set of beads. I think they’re packaged as
anal love beads.”
    “Oh fuck, Jacey,” he groaned.
    “Oh, I’m hoping we get to that later,” she whispered, going
up on her toes to nip his earlobe.
    “Whose idea was this cookout anyways?” he muttered.
    She laughed. “I guess I shouldn’t tell you about the hot little
red-and-black number I brought to wear for you tonight then, huh?”
    “Unless you don’t mind our friends seeing just how happy I
am right now, you might want to hold those thoughts for later.”
    “Hey, you two,” Dee yelled. “Come in and play for a bit.”
    “Yeah, Jonas,” Jacey teased. “Come in and play for a bit.”
    Jonas groaned. “Damn, woman, you’re going to kill me.”
    Jacey laughed and reached up to take his