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Holding the cap in place with one hand, Brooke shot a quick look toward the children She’d been adaht’s incident “Vincent had an ironclad alibi He orking out at the Circle C with a half dozen other guys”

“They vouched for him?”

“Yes” Blue eyes gone serious, she leaned closer and dropped her voice “I kneasn’t the one, but I still think he’s responsible”

“What about your old boyfriend?”

“I don’t know The sheriff hadn’t followed up on Marty, but he said he would”

Gabe’s jaw tightened “If he doesn’t, I will”

“You sound like ht visitor, he’d gone quiet for a second before pro Zach, he’d have a quiet, firm ith Marty and Vincent, too “Let’s not talk about that anymore, okay?”

“Right We’re out for fun No fretting allowed” However, Gabe knew he’d go right on fretting until the guilty ht

He pulled into a parking lot, paid the attendant and put the top up as the crew piled out of the Mustang He watched Brooke with the children, e could be so motherly with children not her own When she fell in step beside him, he hoisted AJ onto one hip and took her hand She reached for Macy on the other side and like a norh security and into the park

The crowd inside the stadium was already thick, but they found their seats near the field and halfway between home plate and first base

“Gabe, these seats are aet this close?”

“This is so cool,” Macy breathed, blue eyes taking in the huge space, the green field, the giant scoreboard in center field She lifted a disposable caiven her and snapped away

Their reaction pleased hiirls”

He didn’t knohat possessed hihed “That’s not what you said e hammered you in basketball”

“A fluke Nothing more And for the record, a three-point win does not qualify as ‘ha’”