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Lorenzo hter, but Darcy heard the love in her voice, too

They left the carts and walked into theroo room, and the equipe hovered by thefor terrorists in all the shadows

"I need to talk to er," Brenna said "I’ll just be a second"

Darcy nodded and crouched down to pat Max as she exa equip," she said "My peak tour experience had been watching theood" She stood "You ed, as if it didn’t matter

She faced him "You don’t care about this?"

"No"

"But they’re an a family"

"We’re related That doesn’t make us family"

She couldn’t have been iant moose

"But that’s crazy," she told him "Why on earth would you walk away froe, it’s who you are"

"I’ about er than just you There’s history here, and love People who care about you"

He turned away "I’ else"

She could hear Lauren’s voice in her head telling her this was a really good tie the subject She didn’t want to alienate someone on her security team on her first day There were probably at least fourteen different, polite ways to handle the situation Darcy ignored theuess not"

Brenna returned, and they co Darcy as she interacted with everyone she ht about her as a person before To hihtly attractive reason he was stuck here instead of back on base Not that there was any guarantee that he would have been allowed to stay on base after the incident with the admiral’s boat

Now he saw her as an individual--one with a tes, had a sh she forced herself to act otherwise She was also afraid

Brenna opened her car door and Max jumped inside She turned to Darcy

"I had fun," she said

"Me, too" Darcy sot in the way

"I’h

Darcy touched her belly "You’re lucky"

Her voice had a wistful quality thatpersonal Before he could turn away, Brenna reached for hiuest" She lowered her voice "I like her Based on what I read in the paper, I thought I’d hate her, but I don’t So be nice to her"

"You’re not the boss of me"

"So you like to think"

Brenna moved to the car and climbed in Darcy stood there and waved until she disappeared around the corner

"That was fun," she said when they were alone "Your sister’s great I really like how she bullies you"

"I let her think she bullies ht with huht, as heat tuut and moved south And as much as he hated to side with Brenna--if she found out she would never let hireed with her assessment of Darcy From what he’d read in the paper, she was supposed to be a class A bitch So far, no real sign of that

Paige strolled up "Hey, Darcy What’s up for the rest of the day?"

"I’m not sure I’d like to head out and sketch the vineyards"

"Sure Give us about a thirty-minute heads-up We’ll send you out with a teae wandered back to the guesthouse Joe turned to Darcy

"Not in the e?" he asked

"I don’t et why I need them I’m not excited to be reminded"

"You were kidnapped They want to be careful"

"And I want therabbed her arers

"What?" she deive you twenty?"

He studied her face The shadoere darker today "You’re not sleeping"

Instantly her expression closed, and she jerked free of his hold "I’m fine"

"You should talk about it to soe could help"

"Don’t worry about h--not the particulars but what it was like to be unable to conment "There are ways to handle post-traumatic stress--"