Chapter 1
“Hey, Gnome!” Tammy threw her arms around Jasper’s neck.
“Hey, Loops,” he nudged her out of the stream of people coming off the escalator into baggage claim, then patted her on the back just the way you’d expect from a nineteen-year-old little brother, hard, with knuckles.
She hung on just to make him crazy, but he knew her games too well; he didn’t even huff out a sigh. It made her so glad to see him that she could cry.
“Missed you, Loops.” And it totally melted her that he said that. Of course, Jasper was like a people-genius, and would know that. Didn’t matter, it worked on her every time.
“Hey, it’s only been a couple months.”
“Seven, but I’m so not counting.”
Seven months since she’d been home? How had that much time slipped by so fast? She tugged at his collar-long p
