“You and Gray keep breaking her heart.” Emily took a long sip of wine.
“Gray and I are even,” Sofia said. “I didn’t have to go, and I get two weeks’ worth of hand-cooked dinners and a special favor.”
“That sounds sexy,” Emily said.
Sofia just smiled.
The pizza arrived and Sofia paid for it. The kids descended on it like starving wolves.
Fred squawked from the front door. He must have clocked the pizza delivery guy.
“Just a sec,” Sofia said.
“Don’t let it into the house,” Emily called. “It’s a savage.”
“Fred is not an ‘it’,” Sofia said. He was a savage.
She walked across her living room, feet crunching on popcorn, and went out onto the porch.
Fred perched on her railing. He squawked again. He wasn’t wearing his camera.
She examined his legs. Both pink.
“Thanks, Gray,” she said. “We’re even.”
She set down her popcorn bowl and Fred dove for it. He came up with a fluffy piece in his beak.
“It’s not caviar,” she said. “But it’s double-buttered.”
That seemed to be enough.
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