Immediately, Shell recognized her mistake in sitting down at the table first. It had left every single seat next to her free. Jared smiled widely as he took the free one on the right-hand side. She wanted to get up and move, but when Garrett and Hannah adjusted chairs so that they could put EJ's carrier between them, she hated to ask them to change what they were doing.
Grabbing the menu the waitress put in front of her, she busied herself studying her options. She wasn't sure why she did, because she always ordered the same thing here, but it gave her something to do besides obsessing over Jared sitting beside her.
She sucked in a breath when his knee hit hers, their thighs close enough to touch under the table. Cutting her eyes at him, she sent what she hoped was a glare, but feared it
