Pick lifted his face from the cash drawer he was slotting into the register. “Yes, my love?”
“Oh, don’t you give me that innocent little smile. You know what you took from me.” She held out her hand, palm up. “Give them back.”
He just grinned. “Now, you know better than that. That’s not how to go about getting anything from me, Tink.”
Tink’s eyes lit with pleasure and she murmured, “You’re right. I know a much better way to get what I want from you.”
But when she went to stroll toward him, Reese lifted her hands and squeezed her eyes shut. “For the love of God, just give her undies back already. I swear, the two of you are even making my unborn babies blush.”
“Ree Ree,” Tink cheered, when she saw Reese. “I didn’t know you were here already.”
They came together and hugged. While Tink had blonde hair and Reese had dark, I could still tell they were related from the shape and color of their eyes.
“And look.” Reese steered Tink around to face us. “Caroline and Zoey are here, too.”
“Zoey?” Eva pulled back and glanced around blindly until her gaze settled on me. “You mean, the Zoey?”
She sounded as if she couldn’t believe it, but when Reese nodded, she studied me up and down, before a knowing smile lit her face. “You were exactly right about her, Ree Ree.”
Reese just laughed. “Of course I was.”
I glanced between them, but neither seemed willing to let me in on the joke, so I had no idea what Reese had been right about. It must not have been anything bad, though, because Eva came to me and immediately pulled me into an enormous hug. After greeting Caroline, she returned to me and looped an arm around my shoulder to ask me all kinds of getting-to-know you questions, like my year in college and what my major was. After I politely answered everything, she shook her head and glanced toward Reese again. “I can’t believe it,” she murmured, sounding almost in awe. “She’s freaking perfect for him.”
“Wait, what?” I blushed at the unexpected comment. “Who’re we talking about?”
But Eva just tsked at me and patted my cheek. “Oh, honey, you’ll figure it out soon enough. Just know, Reese and I will be cheering you on the entire time.”