“Nah, I should go.”
“Tuck.”
“Nancy.”
I only mouthed the word, but Jake’s eyes grew wide and panicked as he shot me a look that only made me smile obnoxiously.
“Rematch. Now,” he demanded again.
I sighed, pretending to examine my nails, though they were chipped and in desperate need of a file. Tessa’s help had only gotten me so far on my quest.
“Why would I do that? I already won.”
“I thought you were Tessa, and I was preparing to go easy on her.”
“Hey!” Tessa called out somewhere behind us.
“Would you two get on with it?!” Logan drawled impatiently. “Some of us are just on lunch break over here.”
“Alright.” Jake turned to me. “We each get five shots to hit the five cans. Whoever shoots the most on their next turn and does it in the fastest time wins.”
“What’s on the table?” I asked, loading my gun with the bullets Cade handed me.
“I want a milkshake, extra Oreo with fudge, when I win. Homemade.”
I rolled my eyes but couldn’t help feeling delighted that he still remembered. We had a shared love of the double-Oreo milkshake.
“And when I win, I want the same thing.”
We shook on it, and I chatted with Tessa and Kelsey while Jake and the guys set up the cans again.
“You look amazing,” Kelsey said to me, eyeing my clothes.
“Thank you,” Tessa inserted proudly, rubbing her pregnant belly with fondness. “She’s always been a beauty, but her clothes and hair were all me.”
Jake let me go first, which I was glad for. I would definitely be losing. I had no doubt of that and was already planning for a trip to the store to grab ice cream. It had been a long time since I’d held a gun, but the possibility of Jake making and delivering me a milkshake was too good to pass up.
I took a deep breath and blew it out slowly, settling my sight perfectly centered on the can. I took aim and pulled the trigger. When all five shots had been fired, all but one of the cans had been hit.
I wrinkled my nose at Jake, who only smiled before jogging back to the cans and setting them up again.
When it was his turn, all I could do was pray he missed one.
He didn’t. This was Jake Evans holding a gun, after all.
After he took out all five cans, he casually turned and smiled at me. “Welcome home, Tuck. Looking forward to taking all your lunch money this summer.”
The Hot Housewives of Eugene & their husbands
Tessa: We all saw that, right?
Kelsey: Like a smack to the face.
Logan: Saw what?
Tessa: Ask Logan how dense guys can be.
Cade: Why are Logan and I on here?