"That does sound romantic," Beth agreed with Sean's assessment of Mikkel's continental adventures and she felt her guess had been a good one though it was wrong. She hadn't figured on him being a girl in every port type and he confirmed he wasn't. In general she was liking him more and more, he seemed so essentially good-natured, very different than a lot of the men she had  known. When you added that to Sean's sense of humor and easy way, it led her to think she and Katy had gotten very lucky with their gentlemen. She was mulling all this over when she felt Sean's arm sneaking across the back of her chair followed by the soft brush of his thumb.<br/><br/><em>Ah, the old casual stretch...a classic.</em>She barely suppressed a smile and relaxed her posture a bit, sinking back into his arm a little more to feel the warmth of it across her shoulders. She was older and wiser now, not the desperate for attention girl she had once been, but it was still in her nature to respond to physical affection and even this small gesture was enough to start chasing her worries away. She smiled at Katy as the other woman began and considered the choices.<br/><br/>"I'm going to say that you've left Montana before this, so that's the lie," she weighed in then grimaced softly in empathy. "Which would make the first thing about your mother true which would be really unfortunate."<br/>