Kathy nudged him gently with her elbow. "Like I was going to go any further than that, with my little sister under the bed," she said. "I'm only willing to go so far for a good joke."

"But how did you know I was here?" Sarah demanded. "I was hidden before you showed up!"

Rolling her eyes, Kathy said, "I knew something was weird as soon as Ezra called and asked me to come down and make out with him." Well...that was true enough, in its own way. The invitation hadn't been filled with explicit detail meant to get her thighs wet before she'd started down the first flight of stairs.