Katie did her best to keep a straight face.
“Oh God. I did it again,” Michelle groaned from the back seat.
Anton was studying the back of Jesse’s head with great intensity.
It was just too much, and Katie lost it.
Everything that had been building up inside her: the uncertainty of how she was going to survive the year, her annexation by this team, whatever was going on between her and Anton that was somehow perfectly captured in Anton’s half-panicked and deeply unsettled expression…
All of it just exploded forth.
The laughter started big and it just grew. She wrapped both hands around Anton’s big biceps, leaned her forehead against his shoulder, and still couldn’t find a way to get it under control.
There were other, uncertain laughs here and there drawn out by hers, but her own nev
