I already had a bright smile pinned on my face when I shifted to look over my shoulder. Caleb and Ezra came in first, Ryder’s cousins who met here for lunch at least once a week. But it was the man who stepped in behind them that tilted the ground a fraction of an inch. Setting me off-kilter. Just barely. But I always felt the wobble of the earth. Gunmetal eyes seemed to find me in a flash, like he already knew I was there.

