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He glanced across at Brooke’s fah the house had sat empty for a while, and compared the two-story house to the rundown apartrown up She’d lived a char thirty-hour weeks to put food on the table for his mother and sisters No wonder she seemed like a spoiled princess to him Like Tara

Still, he wasn’t co God had blessed hier had to work two or three jobs She didn’t have to work at all if she didn’t want to

“Sounds like you had a great fa Gabe swept the boy off the vehicle with one aro inside for minute”

“No, Daddy I play”

Gabe ignored the expected protest and opened the back entrance, standing aside for Brooke to enter

She took hold of the door and let hiiant, modern kitchen “What about your family? Any brothers or sisters?”

“Two sisters, both younger They live in Denver”

“Did you torment them when they were small?”

“What do you think?” he smirked

Brooke laughed, shooting that di brothers pests?”

“Pests and protectors It’s in the male chromosome”

“Oh, I hear that Zach would tease Vivienne and me until we screarinned “What about your mother and father? Are they in Denver, too?”

“Mom is Dad died when I was fourteen”

She tilted her head “My dad died when I was a teenager, too Thirteen”