“Hey. Anna wanted to spoil the baby. I’m not going to turn her down,” I said. “Did I tell you we talked about Drew?”
“That you didn’t. Did you bring up the fact that she should call him?” he asked.
“Yep. And she feels like he should be calling her. Pursuing her, you know?”
“Of course,” he said. “And usually, that’s what Drew does. He’s all about the chase. I have no idea why the hell he’s holding out on this when he obviously misses Anna.”
“I don’t know, but I did tell Anna I would help hook her up with someone.”
“You did?” he asked.
“Yep. She works too damn much, and she’s too stressed. I mean, she enjoys what she’s doing now, but she’s back to that same lifestyle she was living in Phoenix, locked up in her office, barely in her own home, and no social life to speak of. She needs someone to help her release some of this stress.”
“And you wouldn’t be a good sister if you didn’t help her with that,” Bryan said.
“I told her I would set her up with someone. I didn’t specify who,” I said.
“Ah, and the conniving plan reveals itself.”
“It’s not conniving. She left it open-ended. She’s a lawyer. It’s her fault for not seeing it. Anyway, I think we should try setting Anna and Drew back up,” I said.
“Like another double date?”
“Or something like that. Bryan, they were too cute on that date we all went on together. And remember the Fourth? When they first met?”
“They couldn’t keep their hands off each other,” Bryan said.
“They just got busy. That’s literally all that happened, and that’s a bullshit excuse. We get busy all the time, but we make it work.”
“So, what did you have in mind?” he asked.
“Does this mean you’re on board for hooking them up again?” I asked.
“Consider me officially hooked. What’s the plan, Stan?”
“I’m thinking about setting up a dinner outing with Anna while you set up a dinner outing with Drew. Same place, same time, only we don’t show up.”
“So Anna and Drew are the only two who show up to the restaurant,” he said.
“Yep. Not quite a double-date scenario, but it’ll be enough to get them out with each other. Once they’re there, they’ll sit down with one another. And if they don’t, then they really don’t want this to work, and we move on from it,” I said.
“That’ll be easy to manipulate. Then, maybe we could go get some food of our own.”
Bryan scooted closer to me as his lips attached to my neck.
“Bryan, I’m serious. We’re formulating a plan.”
“We are. But I was promised naked movie time, and we are way too clothed to be considered naked,” he said.
“We’ve got to figure out what day, oh, and time ... yes.”
“What was that?” Bryan asked.
His lips were nibbling on my skin as he sank me back to the couch cushions.
“We have to ... figure out the plan,” I said breathlessly.
“I think we have the gist of it,” Bryan said.