“Hallelujah!” Chandra clapped a hand over her mouth and took a discreet glance around the half-full grill. “My bad.”

Serenity shook her head. “You act like I haven’t gone out on a date since I left San Diego.” So what if she could count the number of times on one hand, or that they were more like lunch hangouts with an acquaintance? The point remained that she had gone out.

“If my memory serves me right, you’re the one who said you didn’t want to waste your time and energy going out with a man, knowing it wouldn’t lead anywhere. But that’s neither here nor there. Right now I’m interested in…What did you tell me his name was again?” She tapped her finger against her chin. “Oh, I remember. Gabriel Cunningham. I want to know all about Gabriel and this upcoming date.” Chandra grinned and bounced impatiently in her chair.

“Can we finish eating first and talk while sitting on one of those benches? I’d rather not have an entire restaurant in my business.”

“Well, hurry up, then, girl.” She dug into the remaining food on her plate with gusto.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do with you.” Serenity speared a tomato with her fork and popped it into her mouth.

Once they finished, Chandra all but snatched the bill, paid it, then rushed Serenity off the boat and down the wood-planked walkway to a bench facing the water.

“I don’t even recall you being this excited when you first started dating Mark.”

Chandra wiggled her eyebrows. “That’s because you didn’t see me behind closed doors.”

Serenity closed her ears. “Ugh. TMI, Chandra. TMI.”

“Oh, girl, please. We used to bathe together, so tell that to somebody else. Now, where is he taking you?” She frowned. “Wait. Does Firefly Lake even have an upscale restaurant or somewhere to take a date?”

“Ha ha. Funny. Yes, we do. But I have no idea where we’re going. He didn’t say.”

Chandra shifted her body to face Serenity. “Let me get this straight. Gabriel asked you out, you said yes and didn’t ask where you were going?”

Serenity realized with a start that her sister was right. But then her brain had been in a sensual fog from his kisses. Other than his assurance it would be out of the public eye, it had never even crossed her mind to ask. Her sister burst out laughing. “What’s so funny?”

“Honey, Gabriel must be some kind of man because the Serenity I know would have asked for the date, time, dress code, weather forecast, and every other little detail. Exactly what were you two doing when he asked?”