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Just as Lori had predicted, their brothers stopped and blinked at her in surprise as they walked onto the porch Surprise, unfortunately, quickly turned into scowls

"Sophie?"

Her oldest brother’s face looked like thunder and she had to force herself to hold her ground in front of Marcus, rather than take a step back in retreat--and go running back inside to wipe the lossy, blown-out hair back into the style they were all used to

"What the h--"

Nicola put her hand on Marcus’s foreareous," she teased, "I hear you own this joint"

Thank God Marcus was powerless to resist his stunning girlfriend, especially when she was going up on her toes to whisper so her off to a private corner of the porch and kissing her

Sophiereally nice for Nicola in the future as payback for that quick save Maybe a new e-book reader with a hundred fantastic books preloaded on it for those long hours on tour?

Too bad Gabe was only a beat behind with his, "Why are you wearing all that an, who had become one of Sophie’s closest friends after the two of theo, shot Sophie a sy into Gabe’s line of vision

"Su for you, Gabe"

Sophie’s firefighter brother had fallen hard for her friend and her daughter after saving both of them fro focus on whatever Sophie was up to when Megan’s seven-year-old daughter needed hiirlfriends on the porch to distract the to do that titch thing again, are you?"

Zach just looked plain confused "Whatever is going on here, I don’t want to know about it" But then he added, "Swear to God, Nice, if anyone even looks at you crosswise I’ to pound his head into the dirt until he’s fertilizer for Marcus’s vines"

"What about if so to pull their brothers’ attention away fro affronted

"You can handle yourself," he retorted

"So can I," Sophie said

"Like hell you can," Smith said

Her second oldest brother, who just happened to be one of the biggesther silently until then Although they were about as different as two Sullivans could be--he’d always thrived in the liht and she wanted to steer as far from it as she could--she’d always been especially close to So practice our walk down the aisle"

She’d been so stea "Where’s Jake?"