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again. “Jeez, he’s relentless.”
    “Give me the phone.” Aaron snatched the cell out of her hands.
    “Hey,” she protested, but he was quicker. He flipped the phone open with one hand while fending her off with the other.
    “Hello,” he said.
    “Aaron?”
    “Yeah, it’s me.”
    “I assume, since you’re on Riley’s phone, you found her.” Tristan’s voice betrayed his irritation toward his baby sister.
    Aaron looked at Riley, who was glaring at him with her arms crossed against her chest. He let his gaze drift to her breasts, nicely accentuated by her pose. He wiggled his eyebrows.
    “Pervert,” she muttered, taking her arms down and turning her back on him.
    “I found her,” he said into the phone.
    “When are you coming home?” Tris asked.
    “We’re going to hang out in Vegas for a few days.”
    Tris went quiet on the other end for a few moments. “There’s a funny rumor flying around here today.”
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    “It’s true,” Aaron said.
    He could hear Tristan’s sharp intake of breath. “You and Riley are married ?”
    “Yep. Soon as we track down Trevor, we’re going to start our honeymoon.”
    Riley spun around at his words, fury evident on her face. “What are you doing?”
    “Telling your family our good news.” He knew his response would send her into orbit, but he refused to back down on this subject. If he gave Riley an inch she’d take a mile and he wasn’t budging on their marriage. She was his wife and she was damn well going to stay his wife. It was time she accepted that.
    “Listen, Tris. Do you mind letting everyone know? I’m sorry about springing it on you this way, but it was sort of a surprise to us too.”
    “Didn’t expect you to go to such lengths when I asked you to take care of her.”
    Aaron recalled Tris and Ewan pulling him aside after Teagan’s wedding and asking him to keep an eye on her. He knew of all her siblings, Tris worried about Riley the most.
    “Listen, we’ll have a big party when we get back. Celebrate in style.”
    Tris laughed. “Sounds like a plan. Welcome to the family, bro, and, um…good luck.
    You’ll need it.”
    Aaron smiled as he closed the phone. He’d grown up with the Collins siblings and they’d never failed to make him feel like part of the family. Realizing he was suddenly an official member made him happier than he would have expected.
    He looked at his new wife, shooting daggers at him, and realized Tris was right. He was going to need luck—lots of it. “You were right. Johanna’s apparently been making a few calls home.”
    “And rather than deny it, you told Tris we were married. Knowing perfectly well that I don’t want to stay married.”
    Aaron narrowed his eyes warningly. “What you want and what you need are two different things right now. It won’t always be that way.”
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    “When did you get so stubborn?”
    He reached over and pulled her toward him, silently rejoicing when, rather than fight him, she moved into him, accepting his embrace and wrapping her arms around his waist. “When something is really important to me, I go after it. I don’t think that makes me stubborn. Just determined.”
    She rested her cheek against his chest and tightened her hold. “You’re going to be sorry about this one day. I’m not easy to live with.”
    He chuckled. “Riley, I’ve been a part of your life for over twenty years and I’ve never wanted to leave. I don’t see that changing anytime in the near future.”
    She stepped back and looked at him. Her eyes seemed to study every feature on his face and he wondered what she was thinking. Then she rose up on her tiptoes, pulling his head down to hers.
    “You’re crazy,” she whispered. For the first time since they’d woken up married, she initiated a kiss. He let her lead the way, her lips betraying the conflicting emotions inside her. At first her kiss was soft, tentative, but within moments it became hard, needy, rough.