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He felt stupid re it now, but he felt like they had some kind of connection there on the irl before

Or since

They’d been two adventurous souls, kindred spirits Or so he’d thought He’d always been the glue that had kept his faether, and with her he didn’t have to work so hard It had been easy, and he’d felt real content with Lily, he could relax and just be When she’d left, he’d lost all that, and nothing had come easy to hiotten over her a dao, a fact he had to remind himself of several ti out of the lot A city car, not meant for the narrow, treacherous mountain roads and conditions in the Colorado Rockies

Maybe she’d forgotten how they did things up here Maybe she wasn’t staying long, though there’d been that cryptic "No" when he’d asked if she was visiting

It didn’t matter What she did was none of his business

He pulled out his cell and checked to make sure he hadn’t missed any calls His schedule for the fire season was three days on and one day off, which was today But S&R had no such schedule He was often on call for S&R and when notified, he’d go at a moment’s notice if he wasn’t already on a fire call

Since he hadn’t , he called his older brother Gray ran Cedar Ridge Resort and knew everything about everyone in town He was an eighty-two-year-old lady hiding in a thirty-one-year-oldto do, since he’d apparently known about Lily being back but hadn’t mentioned it

"Mo

Their mom, Char, had taken a fall last week and reinjured her bad hip, not that she’d let either of theht look frail on the outside, but on the inside she was The Rock

"This isn’t about Moot two seconds," Gray interrupted "Penny’s on a twenty-minute break, I haven’t seen her all week, and I have plans for every single one of those twenty round and grioing on seven years now Apparently afraid they were starting to act like old e Just last week Aidan had walked into Gray’s office without knocking and found the Fifty Shades of "Gray"

There was some shit you just couldn’t unsee The next day Aidan had installed a dead bolt on Gray’s office door and begged him to use it He could only hope they would

"Oh, and before I hang up on you," Gray said, "Lenny’s an idiot He got a DUI last night"

Shit This ht having sex inside one of their ht shift Worse, a DUI meant that his driver’s license would be revoked for a minimum of ninety days Aidan shook his head Lenny was the best of the best when it ca care of their equipainst an arrest history "You want to suspend hiets his license back?"

"No, I want hihed "Yeah, he has to be suspended at the very least He’s lucky you suggested that I was thinking of firing him on his bad attitude alone"

"I’ll deal with it"