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Always

To get theone the corporate route and sold out, getting stockholders--but none of them were all that fond of institutions or rules So, by unanione the hard route

Status quo for a Kincaid

Probably today’s so-called boardwould also be status quo--which meant it’d be Gray and Aidan and their half brother Hudson yelling at each other while their half sister, Kenna, watched YouTube on her phone But just as Aidan pulled into the lodge’s parking lot, his cell buzzed

An S&R call, which had hiet hi and he now had it

A lost mountain climber on Palisade Peak

Aidan responded to the text with his ETA and put the truck into gear again Halfway back to toas the local fire station, which they shared with the county’s S&R team

Aidan’s hoeared up and heading out with his unit He’d cleared hisconcern about his mom and her physical health, and especially the sexy blast froe naot down to the only constant in his life--work

Chapter 5

Lily drove up Pine Pass Road, her heart thu harder and heavier with each beat For the hundredth tilanced down at the address on her GPS, saw she was still going the right way, and kept at it, jaw tight

The thing about GPS, it didn’t really reveal hills and valleys Everything looked deceptively flat on the screen She’d seen the name of the street and assu don

She’d been wrong

So wrong, she thought, gut quivering as the elevation clian to suspect her final destination

She hadn’t been on thistile one since that terrible day when Ashley had died

And then her dad

Which had been reason nu Colorado

But her problerounds What she hadn’t realized, what Jonathan had failed to mention, was that it appeared the Mane Attraction hair salon wasn’t in town at all but part of the Cedar Ridge Resort