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"Is that where you want to go?"

Maddie shrugged "Six out of seven Morrisons either graduated fro to soon It doesn’t have a culinary progra and then at least I’ll kno to e my finances when I openas I can re schools in San Francisco and Napa Valley?"

"There are, and I’ve done sora today" She opened up the fridge "Here’s e’ve got to drink What looks good?"

Sensing Maddie wanted to move on from their talk about her future, Serena had just taken out a bottle of San Pellegrino when the side door into the kitchen opened and a man she hadn’t yet met walked in

"Want another one of these?" Maddie held up a beer bottle for him

"Nope, water’s good I’ve got to head back to the office later" He held out his hand to Serena "I’m Sean’s brother Grant"

"Nice to ood-looking man Tall and ridiculously handso anywhere near the kind of effect on her that Sean had from the very first moment she’d met him In fact, despite what she suspected was Grant’s naturally high level of intensity, she actually felt quite co what a serious and focused businessht about how she’d met many men like him over the years and had actually liked quite a few of them At least, the ones who hadn’t secretly hit on her when they thought hertold Serena that Grant would never hit on her in a ht

"Serena," Maddie said, "come on outside and you can try the blue cheese bacon dip Iat Grant as she passed hih the kitchen door Onlyit wasn’t Sean standing in front of her, but a really close copy of him

"I’m Justin," he said, "and you ain"

He said the words so easily that she ht have missed the serious intent behind them if she wasn’t already so attuned to Sean’s happiness What’s rin that was such a perfect replica of the way Sean looked at her that it should have set every cell in her body to tinglingonly it didn’t Not at all

But hadn’t she always known that as on the surface didn’t make up the whole? She was more than her face And so were Justin and Sean Just because their outsides were so sih at the very least, she could tell fro hot like his other brothers, certainly, and with a kindness that radiated even frouessed herself before replying, but decided that if she didn’t have to be guarded with Sean, then she wouldn’t be guarded with his fa me really happy, too"