"I really doubt that," he sends right back, equally without thinking. And god, her laugh. He's laughing too, in no time at all. "That was it, right?"

He draws a card and has to blink at it a few times. Did he really just get that lucky. "Uh-oh, too slow." He lays out his cards, all four 7s and 8,9,10 of clubs. He gestures for her hand and shakes his head. "Come on, lay 'em on me."