Maeve knew his soul better than she knew the man himself, but even a blind woman would have been able to judge that Barney was not overjoyed by this revelation. She would, the redhead resolved, have to make it up to him—ideally before they moved under the same roof as her parents, siblings, and cousins!

“That can be a task for tomorrow,” she offered cajolingly, swiftly pecking him on the cheek. “We rushed yesterday so we might move at our own pace today, after all.”