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"She knows that I didn’t mean it," Bryce muttered as he tore off a bunch of paper towels and pressed it against his face, leaving enough of hisHe really was a big baby

"It’s fine," she said dis him as he continued to mumble and bitch

"No, it’s not," Connor said, sending Bryce one last glare, which earned hi before he turned his attention on her As soon as his gaze landed on her, his expression softened and he smiled that sweet little smile that seemed to be reserved only for her

"Miss noring Jacob and Bryce’s twin sounds of disgust, she shook her head "Nope, not at all," she said, lying her ass off, but before that sed the subject "What did you need?" she asked, hoping that he needed her in the office for an early ""

He leaned in and pressed a quick kiss to her lips, which earnedto annoy her "Sorry, baby, but I was actually looking for the big cry baby behind you"

"What do you need?" Bryce asked, not sounding happy at all about having to deal with Connor, which she knew that he wasn’t Not that she cared She didn’t For the first time in her life she was truly happy

It didn’tter and really starting to annoy her with their attempted daily interventions It seemed that every time her brothers tried to corner her to talk soet screwed up by whichever cousins were staying at the time The interruption was usually work based and while it pissed off her brothers, they understood that the project needed to be completed

Sometimes they tried to hold their sad little interventions outside of work, but those all failed as well, et into an argument It also didn’t hurt that her brothers had to take turns babysitting their cousins The few times that her brothers tried to stall their cousins into waiting to eat so that they could try and talk some sense into her hadn’t ended well Apparently they hadn’t listened when their father warned them never to come between a Bradford and his food, because more than once over the past couple of weeks her brothers had learned that valuable lesson the hard way

She was still cringing at the ht when her brothers tried to aled up with Connor in bed, watching a movie The twins, Reese and Darrin, warned her brothers several ti between them and a buffet, which was iven theain, the tere both police officers so it was probablyIf her brothers had listened they probably wouldn’t have been dragged fro for , but she hadn’t coot the job done since it left her free to snuggle in Connor’s ar the bloodied paper towels in the trash, his glare shifting between her and Connor

"I need you to take over the third floor," Connor explained, stepping past her and grabbing two bottles of water out of the fridge He handed her one before he took a sip from his bottle

"That’s your little buddy’s job," Bryce said with a bit of a bite, his glare taking on a whole new ht that Andreas lazy before then she’d been dead wrong Over the past couple of weeks theto the ter out in the parking lot every couple of hours and several times he’d been found asleep in his truck or on the site It was also beco painfully obvious that theseveral ti profusely after one of his reat deal of weight

Instead of firing him like any other boss would have done, Connor turned a blind eye to his best friend’s doard spiral They’d actually gotten into a few arguments over it, but no matter what she said, Connor wouldn’t fire his friend The only concession that he illing to give her was that Andreould not be touching any power tools It wasn’t much and she wasn’t happy about it, but she’d take it

For now