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E, "Oh, honey, you have no idea"

Before their flirtation could escalate, Brant was pulling into the driveway of her apartment complex A sudden onset of nerves seemed to hold them both speechless Should he ask to couy usually expected to do that? Hell, he didn’t know and he’d never really cared before You didn’t have these kinds of co was defined ahead of tie boy on his first real date

This kind of indecision was coined the final leg of this journey being much different He could think only that if he had been forced to take her ho stop and asked her to ju lot in his haste to finally be free of her after a weekend of coh, was so different Just a few days with someone whoed everything He wanted nothing more than to follow her into her apartment and make love to her until they both passed out fro love and not having sex was not lost on him "Sodo you" They both almost jumped out of their skin when Emht he heard her mutter a curse under her breath when she looked at the screen

Brant saw her wage ato answer the call "Hi, Moot ho, "What! Oh crap, are you kidding , "Is so her hand over the phone, she said, "Boston got busted in a cae to ask why they were so surprised by that fact but decided now et into reach Uncle Ted" She clicked to end the call and sagged back against the seat "I so didn’t need this today" She turned her head to look at hio in and try to reach my dad’s brother, Ted He’s a lawyer in Destin" Brant did his best to hide a shts "Why is any of this surprising? Everyone in the fah as a kitebotany, for God’s sake Not only is he constantly s the stuff as well"

"What can I do to help?" he asked

"Turn my brother into a scholar and not a pothead?" she asked hopefully

Kissing her hand, he smiled "Sorry, baby That s and let you do what you need to do for your fa in her expression that they had both had other ideas about how the evening would end and now that was over She needed to help her brother and that would be easier for her if he went home and let her concentrate

He didn’t know if it was his i by ht of stairs to her apartlihtly painted wall behind her before she turned in the doorway He gave her a gentle kiss on the lips, ht any more frustrated than they already were "Brant"

He put his finger against her lips "I knowI’ll see you to comes up and you need the day off, just call ainst her lips, he forced himself to turn and retrace his steps Fuck, his life see

Chapter Twelve

Brant was at the office early the next h the backlog of aiting for hiether later on and talk about as going on between the it would be a better ht back on her own for hih the lobby of the Danvers International building, he was surprised to see Mac there waiting for the elevator Mackinley Powers had been a friend of the family for many years He and Brant’s brother, Declan, had enlisted in thehome Mac ran a security company with Danvers as one of its clients so it wasn’t unusual to see hi Plus, he was a very hands-on boss and didn’t leave much to chance He turned as he heard Brant approach Mac clapped hi, , Mac Yeah, we got in yesterday This is an early , Mac said, "For sure, but I offered to cover for one of ery so he needed to be there I was just going to do a walk-through before things got under way today I had dinner with Declan, Ella and Evan last night Shit, that’s really hard to adjust to now, but I’m happy for his where his brother was concerned It was almost surreal to have the wild child of the family married with a new baby on the way and a son When Declan discovered that he had fathered a child six years ago froht stand, he had stepped up to the plate and was now an active parent to Evan Coincidentally, a short tinant It was a huge shift in Declan’s life after leaving thefrom post-trauhanistan Ella had helped him turn it all around and noas the most content that Brant had ever seen him "I knohat you mean It’s been hard for me to believe as well, but he deserves it Was Ava also there?"

Mac looked away, obviously uncomfortable with the question "No, I left before she arrived It’sjust different now"

Brant looked at Mac, surprised by his shuttered expression For as long as he could remember, Mac had been in love with his sister He knew that she loved hih to make her take a chance, and nowhappened between you two?"