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She shot hirandpa “Pa, it doesn’t work like that”

“Like what?” Will asked, wondering which direction he needed to go running to get to the highway and if he could e a decent pace in these damn cowboy boots

Pa shrugged, his grin aer This is the only way to kick off a gaht Ironman”

“Who made up that rule?” Hadley asked as she looked around at the rest of her fa by their a the free floor show

Pa grinned, playing his part like he’d been born for it “I did”

Will’s palh he knew it probably wasn’t bad in the family-of-serial-killers kind of way, still he had no clue what in the world was going on “Can someone please explain to me what this is about?”

“It’s the couple’s riddle,” Pa said, as if that explained everything “Now, hold out your arm”

Everyone except for Hadley had their gaze glued to Will, pinning him to the hardwood bench of the picnic table Stephanie and Gabe had that adoring look parents in theat theether, they were lined in white Knox, Weston, Aunt Louise, and the cousins were all staring at hiifs

“Not sure I want to do that” Translation, there was no way in hell he was going to do that

“It’s nothing bad, just…well, randpa “Go ahead and do it”

There was no way this was a good idea, but if she illing to go with it, he wasn’t going to chicken out Pushing aside his s, Will held out his arm so it was next to Hadley’s Pa didn’t waste any ti the handcuffs closed around their wrists

“And we have our official couple to solve the riddle I hope it goes better for you than it did when Hadley and Adalyn had to solve their riddle,” Pa said, shaking his head “It took them three hours”

Hadley let out a laughing gasp “We were twelve”

“It as black and white and read all over,” Pa said

“Pa,” Adalyn said with a chuckle “We read news apps, not newspapers, and back then we didn’t even do that”