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"Do you ride?" she asks, sirl in me opens my mouth to say "yes" but I quickly a on horses At least, not in LA It seeh"

"Oh it is Shane loves to ride We own the adjoining property to Mike’s just outside of Denver Much smaller than his, as ours is si business, but we have horses You should come out one weekend"

Shane and horses Somehow, I have no idea why it fits hi "Thank you," I say, but I’ so nice when I’m supposed to be Shane’s one-minute woman, and therefore off Derek’s radar "I am not sure Shane would want me to join you"

She rests her elbows on the table and studies me "Really? Because I sa you two looked at each other"

I don’t blink or look away "What happened to warningme hat I can’t have?"

"You already have hi Derek crazy"

"Okay, you’re very confusing," I say "In one breath, I have Shane, and in the other I’ outside your husband’s door"

"Whatever you started out being for my Shane, you’re more now and we both know it"

"I don’t know it"

"If you don’t, you will But I think you do, and I think it’s lovely" She opens her ain toward the one-? She’s hts clear to Derek, thus his attention this reat" And fro thrown at me, as the conversation turns to food, before we place our orders for overstuffed Texas baked potatoes that she swears are gourie Brandon"

At the sound of a deep male voice, I look up to find a linebacker of a ray fox, his white dress shirt stretched over broad shoulders and rolled up his powerful forearht blue tie a perfecthis hand, and ohHer eyes warm the way I think mine do when I see Shane "I had no idea you’d be here this afternoon"

"Lucky it worked out this way," he says, and he’s still holding on to her, and I’h, and turns his attention toDavid in line Emily, isn’t it?"

"Yes," I say "Eie and Mike laugh "Yes," Maggie confirms "That’s him"

The two of them then share another look that is a little too familiar, and seems to be some kind of silent communication before Mike refocuses on ive ers," I supply, and already he’s released rip for me "I call your offices often"

"Indeed," he says "And always urgently"

I have no idea why, but I feel a little protective of Shane’s father, and I say, "He doesn’t exactly have a lot of tirees, and I’m reminded that Brandon Senior’s retire his cancer Mike is close to Maggie, but I don’t think he knows, or he’s pretending not to quite well

He glances at his Rolex and then back at Maggie "You ladies enjoy your ives her a nod, then turns one oninto the ie is noticeably less talkative while being reserved on the eye contact We chat about ht it this time Her phone beeps and she looks at it "That would be the senator I need to find a quiet spot and call hi ers

He doesn’t reply And doesn’t reply It’s not like hi a waitress and ask for a bathrooh the bar and into another dining rooliie’s waist I duck back around the wall and flatten, et back to E breathless

"But I want you more than she does, I promise you"

That’s all I need to hear I dash forward and back toward our seats;withlike I’ve never left, it hitstold, so he had to knoho Maggie was lunching with today And Brandon Senior’s reference to her being gone often the other night when I ith Shane My God Is Brandon Senior having an affair because Maggie’s having one while he’s dying? Or vice versa? My hand goes to ie controls the vote if she controls Mike Which son has she picked to run the co to tell Shane any of this? I dread the way it’s going to hurt hile" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">