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Tell sat up a little straighter Could that be the issue with Brandt? Some unnamed fear and he felt he had no one to talk to about it?

“It’ll cause proble you back as far as planning a nursery and picking baby na back froht feel the same way”

Keely snickered “GQ practically shovednew-baby pherolanced down at the bundle in her arms and her nose wrinkled “He just filled his diaper”

“Hand hiet the diapers and stuff over by the ?”

Brandt walked in, his gaze fire”

“Oh”

Tell watched his brother standing there, just watching Keely help out, not offering to do anything

Enough

He grabbed the bottle and clapped Brandt on the back “Coonna stick around for a bit, so I’ll be fine,” Jessie said

Tell sent Jessie a reassuring glance before following Brandt out the door He headed to his pickup and dropped the tailgate He took a seat and watched Brandt pace “Let’s ood idea”

“Why? You figure we’re gonna get arrested? If Ca for open container”

“Fine Giet the honors” Tell twisted the cap off “Welcome to the world, Tucker McKay” Then he handed Brandt the bottle

Brandt took a long s and passed it back to Tell

After Tell drank, he said, “Your turn to make a toast”

“To Jessie The best woman in the whole damn world”

By about the fifth toast, they’d knocked back a third of the bottle Finally, Brandt stopped pacing and hopped up on the tailgate

“Sharing a bottle takes ed all of us to the lake to go fishin’?”

Tell nodded “We never even dropped a line on the water, bein’s he stole a bottle of Dad’s cheap whiskey”

“First tiot drunk,” Tell reood Gave him the punishment for all of us because as the oldest, Luke shoulda known better”

The liquid in the bottle sloshed as Tell helped hi

“I miss him”

“I do too”

“I still expect hi to a stop in his truck, the tires spraying us with dust, and then hih’”