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“I hate to be Mr Obvious, but what happens now?” Chase asked

“I don’t know No offense, but this has fked with my head in so et , your parents seem like nice people”

“But?” Ben proenetic siuys, but I don’t knohat I’m supposed to feel when I see it”

How did any of theed the subject When they’d exhausted conversation about weather differences and job descriptions, Chase wished they’d brought the bottle of whiskey outside with them

“Look, Gavin, you wanna come over to my place and have a beer with us?” Ben asked

Gavin seele with his answer, but shook his head “Thanks for the invite, but I really need to get back to ”

“Understood We’ll see you tomorrow?”

“Most likely”

Gavin wandered to his car and drove off

“I don’t know about you guys, but I need a fkin’ drink,” Ben said

Chase returned inside to tell their parents they were leaving But they weren’t in the dining room and their bedroom door was shut, so he left them alone

As soon as they’d bellied up to the bar at Ben’s house, Chase said, “A brother”

Quinn kept sliding his coaster on the bar top “No shit Never saw that one cooddamn years It’s like, Christ I don’t even know Moer and goin’ on with her life”

Chase knew Quinn was i life without his kids after he and Libby tried for so long to have a child “Can you even fathoave you up, but went on to have three other kids with the sauy?”

“Maybe we shoulda checked to see if he had a clubfoot,” Ben joked

“What the hell does that have to do with anything?” Chase demanded

“History books claim if firstborn sons had any kind of physical defect, the baby would be abandoned Back then, even a clubfoot would get you a one-way ticket to the woods The family hoped the next baby would be perfect”

“You’re fkin’ morbid,” Chase said “Christ That’s not even funny Where do you co other than Hustler some time,” Ben shot back

“Boys,” Quinn warned “Here’s where I’ Aunt Kimi and Aunt Carolyn didn’t blab to Uncle Cal and Uncle Carson about this”

“I disagree Without sounding like a freakin’ girl, women keep other women’s secrets Especially when it comes to family stuff,” Ben said

“So do you think they’ll break the news to the rest of the family about the forty-one-year-old secret McKay baby?” Quinn asked