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Cam laid the blueprint tube in another chair “No, this was just cover Got a lot”

“The stoplight again?”

He cocked thuer at her “Got it in one I’ soil today, and I figured you’d appreciatefirst so as not to smell like manure”

Miranda leaned over and gave an exaggerated sniff as he shrugged out of his wet coat “Much obliged then, cuz” She settled back in her chair “Did you hear about Travis Hugget?”

“What about him?”

“Re or other—long distance for more than a year, since she took that job in New York? Apparently, right before Christmas, he went up there to her fancy Wall Street office and proposed, right as the entire co”

Poor bastard He had plenty of reason to know that was a disaster waiting to happen

“Not only did Gwen say yes, she quit her job right then and there, and they eloped”

Cam swiped Miranda’s beer and tipped it back to wash the sour taste of envy from his mouth as he revised his opinion Lucky bastard “Good for them”

Aware of his cousin’s I shouldn’t have said that expression and sensing an imminent and entirely unnecessary apo

logy, Caoing to stop pussy footing around it?

Miranda’s phone rang and she glanced at the screen “It’s Norah I need to take this Go get yourself a beer and bring me another since you polished mine off And put in an order of cheese sticks while you’re up there I’”

“Your wish” He saluted and headed for the bar, sending a silent thank you to Miranda’s old college roommate for the distraction

Adele Daly, the opinionated owner of the Mudcat, worked the taps as she chatted with Abe Costello about Ole Miss’s chance atit to the Final Four

“I’ot a shot,” Abe insisted

Adele slid a glass of IPA down the bar into a waiting hand “Myup the courts this season”

Easing between two stools, Cam propped himself on an elbow and nodded a hello to Abe “Adele, would you be so kind as to get me a Killian’s and put in an order for cheese sticks and another Sam Adams for Miranda?”