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Thanks to the long s, he could still look at the street below He rather liked Brooklyn, he thought Stylistically it was a million miles from his luxurious but cold penthouse There were trees and families and schools It was all a little more real, a lot more normal

“But nor a couple and their three young kids walking down the street A golden Labrador, looking like he’d taken a hit of doggy crack, walked a young boy

“I’abond, a drifter, soner apart God knows I deserve a little luxury after some of the hellholes I visit and sleep in”

Ty pushed the ball away froer rolled it back and Ty shouted his approval This was such a happy kid Everything h

Outside, the dog wrapped his leash around the legs of the kid, and the entire fa Dad took control of the dog but not before he dropped a hot openross” face

“But really, this house, this place, it’s for fa his head back against the cushion of the chair He watched the street for a couple ofto be, but I never got the chance I hadit nearly killed me I’m not interested No matter how sexy your mom is No matter how much I like her, this is a one-shot deal It’s not forever So don’t think it is,” Jaeger warned Ty, dropping his head to the right to look at Piper’s son

Except Ty wasn’t where he’d left him

Jaeger’s heart stopped He’d been watching Ty for what, ten minutes, and he’d already lost hi as his eyes scanned the den His head told him the kid wasn’t that fast, but his heart went into panic er looked at the front door—locked, thank God Ty had to be somewhere in the apartht the movement of a socked foot as it disappeared into the kitchen

Gotcha Jaeger put his hands on his thighs and took a few calive yourself a heart attack

After a couple of er walked toward the kitchen and found Ty sitting in the mess on the floor—the ers went straight into the goop and up to his its and dove back in

By the tioop over his face, into his hair, down his clothing and around his neck The kid had the ability to cause er rather admired that about him

Jaeger stood in the doorway to the kitchen, pulled his phone fro his eyes on the tiny troublemaker, lifted the phone to his ear

“Linc? How do you bathe a baby?”

“With soap and water, moron”

Eight

Piper stepped into the dark hallway of her apartlance at her watch It was after o, but Lati and allery than she’d planned on

What an evening, Piper thought as she slipped off her shoes At around ten, the very sexy sculptor finally ee and, without greeting a single soul or saying a word, planted a s hiallery Neither returned, uests Latie were the only topic of conversation for the rest of the evening

Piper, who’d ie, was annoyed by the crowd’s fascination with so to do with the her way and immersed herself in Latimore’s art The steel and carved wood elements remained but the sculptures weren’t as heavy, as masculine as before There was fluidity in his work and an unexpected femininity that hadn’t been present in his earlier works