“Bah,” Aidan said with a dismissive shrug. “Work, shmerk. Enjoy tonight, be sorry tomorrow.”
“Is that your life philosophy?” Zoe asked him, sipping her drink. “Party now, regrets later?”
“Damn right, darlin’. Take what comes when it comes, live it fully, worry about later when later is now. And why not, right? Carpe diem and all that.”
“Well, I’ll drink to that,” Jo said boldly, surprising herself at speaking up among this group of people who were clearly good friends. “To the now.”
“To the now,” Zoe and Mac echoed, raising their drinks. Aidan gave Jo another one of those heart-stopping, glowing grins and she smiled back, starting to unfurl under his hot gaze. Yeah, he was taken and married and clearly happy to be so – but what the hell.
This was the ‘now’, her ‘now’, and why not enj
