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Gavin kneeled down "I’m Braden’s friend He told me all about you and your Uncle Wes I couldn’t wait to reide, obviously satisfied she didn’t have to defend Wes’s honor bysure Gavin didn’t come to steal his man

"Braden says you play instruments He says you teach kids how to play ‘eot a pinch in his chest, but he nore it "I used to teach I don’t anymore, but I would love to show you how to play"

"Yay!" Jessie squealed before running for the swings again

Gavin pushed to his feet "She’s like a little tornado What does she want to play?"

"You haven’t seen anything yet, and beats the hell out of me This is the first I’ve heard of it"

The two men walked over to the porch and sat in the camp chairs "Love what you’ve done with the place," Gavin teased hih he was surprised Braden worked with his hands a lot, and he’d always loved outdoors He was surprised his friend hadn’t done more with the property

"Funny, asshole I hadn’t lived here too long before I h to care what it looked like Noell, we don’t want to take Jessie away from her home, ya know? It’s where she lived with her mom We think it’s ih his hair, trying to figure out how to respond to that It was so crazy to hear Braden speak that way He’d always been the free spirit while Gavin was the band geek, and now here he was, living this fa "You’ve changed Grown up"

Braden wrinkled his nose "If you don’t take that back, I’ll be forced to kick your ass"

Maybe he hadn’t changed too ood Got ed Gavin’s arh, Braden was right Gavin had started working outhe paid er Now, he realized how ood"

"Married, huh? Does Wes knohat he’s getting into, agreeing to a lifetirinned "He wouldn’t have it any other way"

Gavin didn’t doubt that was true

"What about you? Do you knohat you’re going to do? I’m not sure if you realized this, but we have schools in Blackcreek You can still teach, Gav"

The pinch in his chest caehammer "I don’t knohat’s next I don’t knohat I want to be next, either Now’s not the tih I still can’t believe you’re getting hitched Tell me about your life"

Braden picked up where Gavin left off, talking about Wes and Jessie and how they wanted their relationship to be as official as they could for their little girl Gavin listened to hi what in the hell was next for hi me?" Mason took the chair beside Gavin People were just starting to fill into the e that would start in just a fewaround the a s white chairs lined up in front of an oversized tree with big, weeping branches that sat in the lanced his way "If I was stalking you, wouldn’t I be hiding?"

"True" He leaned closer, sne "You never knoith the way you ran the other day" Mason hadn’t expected to see Gavin again, figured he’d been passing through town; but it was obvious now that he’d co

"Ran, huh?" Gavin raised a dark brow at hihed at that He’d seen the look in Gavin’s eyes Saw it noell, even though it seeht shyness He was interested, attracted at the very least

The look on Gavin’s face changed Not in a bad way, just contemplative He was a thinker Mason could tell that ht now before replying Gavin looked up and around them Was he in the closet? No, Mason didn’t think so Newly out, then?