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too,” Ally admitted.
    Jake smiled, relieved to see she was returning to her usual feisty self. He opened his arms and wrapped them around her slim body as she sank into the offered hug. “I love you, Angel,” he whispered. “I’m sorry I upset you.”
    “It’s okay.”
    “It’s not okay, Ally,” he corrected. “I’m still learning about sharing my life with someone. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to share it with you. That only means I’m an idiot sometimes when it comes to sharing. I need you to understand that.”
    “I understand.”
    Jake dropped a soft kiss on Ally’s upturned mouth. “How about I buy you that Olive Garden I promised, and then we’ll come back here and relax? James is booking the flights. We’re going to need to be in bed early.”
    “Screw Olive Garden,” Ally said, hopping off the couch. “I need to pack. What exactly does one wear in Kansas?”
    Jake laughed. He couldn’t help himself. “Never change, Angel.”

Three
    “This is so exciting,” Ally enthused the next morning, gripping her armrest as she stared out the window and watched the airplane shoot into the sky.
    “Speak for yourself,” Mandy grumbled, resting her head against James’ shoulder and tugging the airline-issued blanket up to cover herself. “It’s still dark out. You can’t even see anything outside of that window, Ally. I don’t know why you’re so giddy this early in the morning.”
    James surprised the foursome with business-class seats, which meant they had room to stretch their legs and weren’t crammed in around other passengers. In fact, other than two men a couple rows ahead of them, they had the entire business section to themselves.
    “Mandy isn’t a morning person,” James supplied, brushing a quick kiss against his wife’s forehead as she drifted back into dreamland. “She’ll be fine by the time we land.”
    “How long?” Ally asked, her eyes sparkling. This wasn’t her first time on a plane, but it had been years since she’d gone anywhere via air travel.
    “Three hours,” James said. “That’s plenty of time for you to have breakfast and gaze out the window.” Despite himself, James found Ally’s enthusiasm adorable. Unlike his sister, though, he would’ve been perfectly happy crawling under Mandy’s blanket with her and going back to sleep. He didn’t think that was in the cards.
    As if on cue, the flight attendant appeared next to their seats. She was a pretty blonde, her smile unnaturally bright as she gazed between the two couples. “Good morning. Would you like to order breakfast? With only six of you in the section, I’m pretty much going to have nothing to do but wait on you the entire trip.”
    Ally wrinkled her nose. “We get to order breakfast?”
    The flight attendant – her nametag read “Ashley” – handed Ally a sheet of paper. “You can have anything on the list. If you’re really hungry, you can have two entrees. We have more than enough to go around.”
    “Oh, yay,” Ally said, straightening. “I don’t know how I’ve never flown business class before. James, you’re going to have to upgrade me every time I fly from here on out. You know that, right?”
    James rolled his eyes. “Whatever, Ally.” He took Ashley’s proffered menu and scanned it. “I’ll have the omelet and hash browns. I’ll take some coffee, too.”
    “And you’re wife?”
    Mandy didn’t even shift against James’ shoulder. “Give her the omelet and hash browns, too. She’ll take tomato juice instead of coffee, though. Oh, make sure it’s tomato juice. If you try to trick her with V-8 we’re all going to find out exactly how much she hates mornings.”
    Ashley pursed her lips. “Are you sure? She seems … zoned out.”
    “Yes, well, my wife likes to sleep in,” James replied. “She also likes a big breakfast. She’ll be fine.”
    “I’ll wake her up,” Ally offered.
    “You stay over there,” James ordered. “If you wake her up she’s