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we’ve got final fittings this week, and she wants me to go shopping with her for her honeymoon stuff, and then the rehearsal and setting up, and I don’t really know when I’m going to find time to do all of this.” Like she ran into a solid brick wall, she stopped and surveyed him seriously. “You don’t know of a way to get more than 24 hours into a day, do you?”
    “At the rate you’re going, you may need like 75.”
    The laugh that came from her soul felt very good. “You’ve got a point.”
    Movement at the front of the table pulled their gazes over to where Dustin and Eve stood arm-in-arm. “Hey, man, I think we’re going to call it a night,” Dustin said, and Jeff jerked his arm off the back of the booth.
    “So soon?”
    “Yeah, we’ve got to get our stuff boxed up tomorrow. The moving van’s going to be there bright and early Monday morning.”
    “Oh. You needing some help?” Jeff asked as if he might need to go right then to start boxing things up.
    Dustin grinned. “Hey, I never turn down a good offer of help.”
    “What time?”
    “Ten… eleven?” Dustin looked at Lisa. “Whatever time you can get there.”
    “Let’s say eleven,” Jeff said, and Dustin nodded as he extended his hand, and the two of them knocked fists together. “See ya then.”
    “Take care.” Dustin stepped away from the table and then turned back. “It was nice to meet you, Lisa.”
    “Yeah,” she said as embarrassment crowded on her. “You too.”
    “Night,” Dustin said with a final wave.
    When they were gone, Lisa looked at her watch. “Two o’clock.” She shook her head. “Good. Now they have to go home.”
    Jeff nodded as he laid his forearms on the table watching his thumbs bounce back and forth across each other. “So you might get some sleep tonight after all.”
    At that moment the three girls and Ramsey approached the table, and Jeff and Lisa looked up and straightened.
    “Come on, Lis. We’re going over to Shane’s,” Haley said , never really breaking rhythm. “You ready?”
    “Shane’s? Who’s Shane?” Lisa asked as confusion tinged the anger.
    “Who’s Shane,” Haley mocked. “Shane’s—the bar, dummy.”
    “Bar?” Lisa asked in outright dismay. “But…”
    “Ramsey says it’s excellent,” Bryn said, looking up at him in awe.
    “But I’m not…” Lisa looked at her watch. “I really need to get home.”
    The set of Haley’s hands on her hips said that Lisa was once again ruining her good time. “So what? You just want to bust up the whole party then? Come on, Lis. It’s not that late.”
    “I could take her,” Jeff said from Lisa’s side, and Haley shifted her attention to him in the same second that Lisa turned her gaze to him. He shrugged as he looked at her. “I could take you. No big deal.”
    “Cool,” Haley said, accepting for Lisa without so much as consulting her, and instantly Lisa turned and nailed Haley with a would-you-shut-up gaze. Haley returned the look with one that said, what? I want to go.
    Lisa turned back to Jeff. “I’d hate to put you out.”
    “It’s not putting me out. I was headed home anyway.”
    “Great so it’s settled then,” Haley said, smiling.
    “Great,” Lisa breathed, wondering when she had stumbled into this nightmare.
     
     
    At the club door Jeff grabbed his jacket and half-followed, half-led Lisa outside. She was as stunning standing up as she was sitting right next to him. With her in that business suit, the slim curve of her waist, and the heels, his already scrambling brain waves were having a hard time keeping up with anything other than her. It felt like walking next to a runway model. As they exited, he swung his denim and brown suede jacket on, sensing how underdressed he looked next to her.
    “So, where’s your car?” he asked, hoping his voice would hold out long enough to get the sentence out.
    “At the office,” she said, and he noticed the protective fold of her arms across her chest.
    “On