“You didn’t reply my query.”

“When you’re asking me if Roxy and I dated, the reply isn’t any. She was engaged on the time.”

“However not married now?” she requested. She figured it was a great guess contemplating Roxy was alone and Grace hadn’t seen a marriage ring on the pilot’s left hand.

“No,” he mentioned. “They known as the marriage off final yr.”

“So that you’ve stored in contact because you’ve been out of the service,” she mentioned. Lincoln had been right here for a number of years now.

“Not such as you suppose,” he mentioned. “I had her quantity and reached out when Egan was struggling to seek out somebody. That’s when she informed me they by no means obtained married. She was on the lookout for a change and mentioned it got here on the proper time. , like a kind of destiny issues.”

“Yeah,” she mentioned drily. “Destiny.”

He laughed. “Cease,” he mentioned. “We’re pals and nothing extra. She’s by no means gotten my blood pumping such as you. That ought to imply one thing.”

“It does,” she mentioned. That assertion helped considerably.

She’d by no means thought she was a jealous individual earlier than and didn’t know the place this was even coming from.

“Good,” he mentioned, kissing her on the lips. “What do you will have on below this gown?”

“You need to wait to seek out out,” she mentioned.

“I don’t even get a touch?”

“There isn’t a lot in any respect,” she mentioned and moved out of his arms when the music ended, going again to her desk for her drink.

“How come you left Lincoln alone?” her mom requested.

“I didn’t. I imply I simply got here for my drink. I believed he was behind me.”

She turned and didn’t see Lincoln, then positioned him on the bar with Griffin.

“It regarded to me such as you had been frowning whilst you had been dancing,” her mom mentioned.

“Melanie, depart Grace alone,” his father mentioned.

“It’s nothing,” she mentioned. “I’m undecided what you noticed.”

She’d should do higher along with her facial expressions too.

When she was youthful she’d had that drawback. Folks simply irritated her too simply. Most likely years of not realizing who was being truthful and who wasn’t.

She shouldn’t and wouldn’t lump Lincoln into that.

He hadn’t lied to her as soon as. She had no purpose to doubt something with him.

Simply because she discovered one thing out she hadn’t identified didn’t imply something.

“We’d prefer to have Lincoln over for dinner someday,” her mom mentioned.

“That isn’t going to be simple,” she mentioned. “We work weekends whenever you’re off. You reside in Boston and us on the island.”

“I don’t like to ask myself to your own home and have you ever prepare dinner,” her mom mentioned.

“However I love to do it. When you and Dad can come on a Monday or Tuesday, that may work. In any other case, it’s going to take some flexing of schedules. The summer time is each of our busy occasions.”

Her mom sighed. “Aren’t you taking every week off this summer time?”

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