Sloane winced when he said she'd likely bruised him. Well now she felt absolutely awful. "A tug on the braid is much safer." He was the only one who did that anyway. It would be a dead giveaway that it was him.

She was about to say she'd make it up to him another time, if they could swing it, but his comment about a list sparked a memory of another time that he'd said that. "You keep a list?" She said, a truly amused smile tugging the corner of her lips upward. Once upon a time he mentioned a list of her hair colors, but she'd honestly thought he'd been kidding. Was that really the case?