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headed down the mountain, turning on the headlights halfway down. “Another clean escape,” Colton said, when he pulled onto the road that led into town.
    â€œAnother?”
Hunter asked from the front seat.
    â€œWe might’ve done this once before,” Will said. “The night of Nolan’s party.”
    Laughing, Hunter said, “You got away with that one. I had no idea, but then again, I had no good reason to sneak back to town. And now I do.”
    â€œNow you do,” Will said.
    They dropped Hunter off first.
    â€œTry not to scare the hell out of Megan,” Colton said.
    â€œI told her I’d be home if I could get away, so she won’t be surprised to see me.”
    â€œThat’s premeditated,” Will said. “A whole other level of p-whipped.”
    â€œSay what you will,” Hunter said. “I’m happy to plead guilty. See you boys tomorrow.”
    â€œDon’t be late,” Will said.
    â€œWhen am I ever late?” Hunter shut the door before they could pounce on that easy opening. He’d broken his on-time record repeatedly since he got together with Megan, even coming in late to work several times, which had never happened before.
    They waited until he disappeared inside his dark house before they continued on through Butler to Will’s house five miles outside of town. The cabin was completely dark when they pulled up outside.
    â€œI don’t want the dogs to bark, so let’s sneak in through the mudroom.”
    They went around the back of the cabin where Will used his key in the door that he’d instructed Cameron to keep locked when she was home alone. Before she’d lived here with him, he’d never locked his doors. Now that he had someone so precious to protect, his doors were always locked.
    Trevor raised his head off his dog bed, saw Will, and thankfully went right back to sleep.
    â€œSee you in the A.M .,” Colton whispered as he went to the ladder to the loft where his fiancée was sleeping.
    â€œThanks for taking the dare,” Will said.
    â€œLike I had any choice.”
    Will was still smiling when he went into the bedroom and slipped into the adjoining bathroom where he stripped out of his clothes and brushed his teeth. Standing next to the bed, he could see Cameron sleeping on his side, hugging his pillow. Though he hated to disturb her sleep before their big day, he crawled in next to her and wrapped his arms around her.
    She murmured in her sleep, which he took as an opportunity to kiss her. With only the faint light of the moon shining into the room, he saw her eyes fly open when she came to. “What’re you doing here?” she asked breathlessly.
    â€œI missed you.”
    â€œIt’s bad luck to see me before the wedding.”
    â€œI’m not looking.”
    â€œYes, you are!”
    â€œYou want me to go?”
    â€œDon’t you dare.”
    Will laughed. “A dare is what brought me here.”
    â€œWhat do you mean?”
    â€œI dared Colton to bring me home because I’d been drinking and he hadn’t. Abbotts risk massive ridicule if they don’t take a dare, so I pulled out the big guns to bend him to my will.”
    Laughter from the loft drifted into their room. “Doesn’t sound like you had to twist his arm.”
    â€œNot really. Hunter came with us, too. We dropped him off at home.”
    â€œYou guys are funny. You can’t take one night away from your women.”
    â€œI can’t speak for them, of course, but I’m madly in love with my woman, and one night away from her felt like forever.”
    Cameron snuggled up to him. “For me, too. It was so weird to go to bed without you.”
    â€œYou’ve got way too many clothes on. What is all this?” He pulled and tugged at the T-shirt and moose pajama pants she’d worn to bed.
    â€œStop,” she said, laughing. “It’s cold and I didn’t