“You’re welcome to ride with us.”
“I don’t want you to go to any trouble.”
“It’s only two miles down the road, and we’re going to the same place,” Liam said. “I don’t call that trouble.”
Lily doubted Brendan would have the same perspective. But Liam hadn’t mentioned that his older brother would be attending the service with them….
“All right.” She gave in.
“We’ll swing by the house and pick you up in five minutes,” Aiden said.
Lily lured Missy to the door with a biscuit she’d stashed in her pocket and closed her in the three-season room once they were inside. The wicker furniture provided the least amount of temptation for a dog who viewed leather furniture as a gigantic rawhide chew.
A short time later, a sleek black convertible—not a pickup truck—pulled up in front of the house with Aiden at the wheel. Lily slung her purse over her shoulder and glanced at her reflection in the oval mirror hanging in the hallway. Cheeks flushed pink from chasing Missy through the woods. Hair loose around her shoulders instead of confined in a tidy French braid.
Oh, well. It was a good thing God looked at the heart!
Lily locked the door and skipped down the steps. Liam hopped out and opened the car door the moment before she reached it.
Smiling, Lily slid inside. “Thank—”
The rest of the sentence stuttered and died when her gaze locked on the man sitting in the backseat.
Hair gleaming like obsidian from a recent shower, Brendan wore dove-gray dress pants that accentuated his long legs and a white linen button-down shirt.
She almost didn’t recognize him.
Brendan was staring at her as if he didn’t recognize her, either. And then he frowned, which, Lily thought ruefully, proved that he had.
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