The air between them crackled with heat, ready to snap.

Then Jeremy's phone went off — loud, insistent, refusing to quit — buried in the pocket of his slacks at the worst possible moment.

Neither of them could ignore it.

He pulled Kaia closer with one arm and answered with the other.

It was the Hale family. His father, Jonathan, on the line, voice clipped and serious. "I heard you registered the marriage. Why haven't you brought your ...