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"It’s no problem and thank you--"

"I know you really didn’t want this sandwich" He placed the plate on the island "I knohat you were doing So, I’ thank you and I mean it"

She opened her mouth, but what could she say? Besides, she really didn’t want to talk about this or what she found in his et a chance to ask a single one

He pivoted around and left the kitchen without saying another word, leaving her there with the basket of his aze fell to the plate, appetite co

She glanced down at her basket and then she shivered, and it had nothing to do with the sudden coldness in the roo to do with the brothers

Chapter 27

Lucian’s sneakers were pounding on the treadmill when Gods call He’d lost track of howAll he kneas that this was the third ti coym since he left Julia in the kitchen

Hell, his head wouldn’t shut down Thinking too damn much His sister His cousin Lawrence Dev Julia He was trying to run the da the stop button, he snatched his phone out of the holder and pulled out the earbuds as he rode the belt to the end of the tread off the treadmill

"Ah, it’s been different," Gabe replied, and Lucian frowned at the sound of his brother’s voice It was off "Hoas the lunch yesterday? I would’ve called, but tiot away from me"

"It went okay Not sure if Maddie responded or not, but I think it was good Probably will have Daniel co over to where he’d dropped a towel earlier, he swiped it off the ground He didn’t think Gabe needed to know that Julia had taken things out of their e?"

Gabe laughed, and that didn’t even sound right "Shit,to be down here a few , he wiped up the sweat and then tossed the towel into the nearby hamper Unease filled him "Talk to me"

"Emmashe was in a really bad car accident," his brother said

"Shit" He planted a hand into the wall, back bowed "I can be down there in a few--"

"No No, you can’t You got Madeline and Julia to worry with You can’t leave them with Dev," Gabe cut in "You need to be there And I need to be here"

His brother was right, but Lucian didn’t like the sound of his brother’s voice "How bad is bad, Gabe?"

There was a long moment of silence and then his brother said, "She’s in a co to wake up"

"Man, I don’t knohat to say" Lucian rested his forehead on his bicep No s he had for Emma had ran deep "That’s why her parents called you down, so you"

So Gabe could say goodbye

Lucian couldn’t even bring hi else I don’t even knoord this Fuck," Gabe groaned, and the hairs rose all over Lucian’s body "I haven’t even wrapped , Lucian pushed off the wall as he eyed the shoulder and leg presssilence told Lucian that whatever Gabe was about to say was going to be a bo

"II have a kid," Gabe said, his voice hoarse "I have a son"