Nathan waved back. He was exhausted, he could admit it, and the wine warmed his chest wonderfully. Wholly content, he threw Jim a grateful smile. “You could have just told me about the wine and good company instead of hitting me with the mojo.”
Jim’s dimples showed as he grinned. “But it was so much more fun this way.”
“Whatever, Jesse James,” Nathan mumbled into his glass.
Jim formed his hand into a gun first, but before he could ‘fire’, Nathan mirrored him and they completed the gesture together.
BANG.
“Guys,” Sasha laughed, joined by Alex’s giggles.
“I swear you two are hopeless,” she said as she laid her head on Jim’s shoulder, smiling blissfully.
Just seeing Jim and Alex like that, comfortably content like how he and Sasha were, filled Nathan with a bit of that peace he had been chasing around the Gatehouse for the past week. Nothing made him happier than seeingJimhappy.