He walked by and kissed her cheek. “How foolish of you, wife.”

Good thing she knew he was joking.

It was also a good thing he wouldn’t be at the bachelorette party. She intended to have a very good time.

***

Gavin reentered the living room, where all the guys were gathered around the television watching the game. Mick’s team was playing Denver today in San Francisco. Cole would be playing the Monday night game, so he actually got to be at the house for Sunday dinner.

“Mick’s arm looks strong,” Jimmy said to Ty as Gavin took his seat on one of the chairs.

“It does,” Ty said as they settled in to watch Mick take the offense after Denver scored a field goal.

There was a round of hysterical laugher coming from the kitchen.

“I can’t believe you waded in there,” Ty said. “What’s going on?”

“Wedding stuff. Something about the dresses and the bachelorette party.”

“Oh. Jenna’s kind of excited.”

Gavin took a long pull of his beer. “Yeah, I can tell. I hate to break it to you, but I think she’s more excited about the bachelorette party.”

Ty laughed. “I’m not surprised. There’s a lot of stress with the wedding. She needs to get away and unwind.”

“So you’re not worried about her finding some hot male stripper and running off with him?”

Ty shot him a look. “Uh . . . no. After all, she has me to come home to.”

Gavin snorted, then directed his attention back to the game. After a while, the women came in to watch. Gavin made room on the oversize chair for Liz, who draped her legs over his.

At halftime, the Sabers were still ahead, and Gavin headed outside with the rest of the guys. It was a decent day, so they all shot some baskets, then grabbed more beer and lounged near the fire pit.

“We’re set for the weekend,” Ty said. “We have the trip to Vegas lined up.”

“Cards and booze,” Gavin said. “I’m ready.”

Garrett grinned. “I’m giving Alicia a hard time and telling her we’re club hopping at strip joints.”

Cole shook his head. “Bet she’s loving you for that.”

“She didn’t seem fazed by it. All she said was to remember she’d be doing the same thing.”

Cole laughed. “Got you on that one, didn’t she?”

“Hey, just remember, whatever my fiancée is doing will be the same thing your fiancée will be doing.”

“Huh,” Cole said, frowning. “Good point. Not sure I like the idea of hot, sweaty men rubbing all over my woman.”

“I don’t think there’ll be any strippers,” Gavin said. “That just doesn’t seem like something Jenna would be interested in. But I’ll check with Liz and see if I can find out what’s actually going on.”

“You really think Liz is going to tell you anything?”

Gavin nodded at Ty. “She will. With the right amount of persuasion.”

They went inside and watched the rest of the game, which the Sabers won, fortunately. That made for a hot discussion about football at the dinner table. Of course coming off the recent loss to Mick, Cole nitpicked all of Mick’s deficiencies, which meant Gavin’s dad had to argue and defend Mick. Gavin just sat back silently and ate his lasagna, because there was no way he was going to defend his brother. Mick could defend himself just fine next time he and Cole met up.