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Besides, it’s fun just to tease her. To give her an idea of how much fun we can have when the date is over.

As if we’re sharing a brain, we all let go of her at once.

“I think we need to go back this way,” Kane says, stepping back and turning in the opposite direction.

“Yeah, then I think right,” Benjamin says, falling in step next to him.

I smooth Abby’s dress down, then set her away from me before linking our fingers and starting after the guys.

All as if nothing just happened.

She stumbles along next to me for a couple of steps before saying, “This is an exceptional fall festival.”

I grin down at her. “You are an exceptional fall festival date.”

She looks up at me. “Have you brought a date before?”

Is that a flicker of jealousy I see? I probably shouldn’t like that, but I do.

“Just Kane. And he ate his way through every pumpkin spice booth and then complained about a stomachache the rest of the night.”

She laughs, and my heart feels like a helium-filled balloon, light and full in my chest.

“So I was thinking,” she says as we follow Benjamin and Kane through the maze.

“Uh huh,” I say.

“Maybe I won’t go back to my apartment tonight. If we could make s’mores by the firepit later?”

I try not to act as if she just announced that it was Christmas and my birthday and I was getting a pony. “God, Abby, you’re so demanding. But yeah, I guess we could probably do that.”

She snuggles closer to my side. “But tomorrow I really should go to my apartment. Before work on Monday.”

I lean over and kiss the top of her head. “We can talk about that tomorrow.”

I absolutely want her to never leave, but I realize we’re going to have to take this one day at a time.

“Oh damn, another dead end,” Kane says a few steps in front of us.

Abby giggles and says, “Oh darn.”

I don’t know exactly how to get this girl to fall in love with us and stay with us forever, but I am very glad my two best friends are working on this with me.

The three of us are a pretty great team.

CHAPTER 19

BENJAMIN

“I thought I was too full, but I can’t stop,” Abby tells Dash as she leans forward from where she’s sitting in Kane’s lap and takes the toasted marshmallow from between Dash's fingers.

“Oh, you’ll always be perfectly filled up around us, Lollipop,” Kane quips.

Abby giggles as she swallows the marshmallow. “Kane,” she says in the sweet little half-shocked-and-half-turned-on way she seems to often respond to him.

He laughs, obviously pleased to have scandalized our girl.

I shift on my chair across the fire pit from them. Dash dragged his chair right next to Kane’s when Kane pulled Abby into his lap as we settled around with drinks and ingredients for s’mores.