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She laughs. “I’ve got to be one step ahead of that girl.”

I smile. “She’s a sweetheart.”

Katie raises an eyebrow. “She’s on a mission of her own, you know? She plans on taking over this club someday.”

We both laugh.

“These men have no idea what’s coming for them, do they?”

She shakes her head. “No. No, they don’t.”

I tap the book Charlotte gave me against my knee. “Thank you for talking to me.”

“Anytime.”

Chapter Thirty-Four

Carson

“Ithought I’d find you down here,” I tell Luna, hopping rocks to join her on the other side of the stream.

“Hey,” she says shyly when I sit down beside her.

“How was your day?”

“Good.” Her attention goes back to her book.

“What are you reading?”

“Charlotte’s Web,” she mumbles, giving me that cute little annoyed look she gets when she’s into something and I’m disturbing her.

“I remember that one. It’s basically proof that somebody can show up out of nowhere and matter more than you ever expected them to.”

Luna slowly closes the book. “You’ve read it?”

“I like to read,” I tell her.

She lies back beside me. “There’s still so much we don’t know about each other.”

“We learned a lot in Ireland.”

“I don’t want to lose that here.”

I turn on my side, facing her. “We won’t.”

Luna rolls over, smiling. “I like to save stray animals.”

“Good to know. Good to know. What do you do with them?”

“Well, sometimes I keep them with me for a while until they get stronger, and then I let them go. The wild ones anyway.”

“Oh no. That sounds dangerous.”

“Well, I mean, I don’t pick up rattlesnakes or anything. But I have run into the occasional lizard that needed a good meal, and a little TLC.”

My grin widens. Petey told me Luna paid a visit to Katie. I was worried about what kind of mood I’d find her in.

“What about the domesticated animals?”