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“So it’s really a moot point”

“If you’re trying to keep peace in the family”

“You don’t think I should”

“Not saying that at all I can’t advise you on this one I have never grown up having to please a big family”

Or any family, she added silently

“I don’t want you in the et I asked We’re going to pretend there was no invitation You know nothing about my trip to Flathead Lake”

Jet clutched her er and resentainst Harley’s rules

Harley hadn’t laid down any rules since Jet was a very young girl and Harley would be left in charge of the younger ones, and so Jet was finding it al issued with rules and edicts now, in part because she’d been on her own several years now, and in part because she just didn’t agree with Harley’s point of view in the first place

“You’re still going to go, though?” Jet asked, hoping she didn’t sound as woebegone as she felt

“I need to There are things I want to ask, and these things are always better in person”

“Do people open up more in person than on the phone?”

He hesitated “With me, yes Some journalists and researchers prefer eet back to their keyboard faster”

“How do you use interview?”

“Old school Notepad, pen, and tape recorder”

And noas sounding like Sean Finley and not Shane Swan and Jet found herself really, really wanting to go to Polson, Montana, which sounded like theplace on earth at that moment in time “And it’s a pretty drive?”

“Incredible drive and incredible scenery when you get there”

“You’re torturing me now”

“No, if I wanted to do that, I’d drag you to a couch and kiss you until you—” He broke off, listening to so His brow furrowed

Then Jet heard it A truck hurtling up the driveway

“Sounds like we have company,” Shane said

Jet went to the kitchen sink and looked out theand spotted the big, red truck parking in front of the house right next to Jet’s car, which was actually Harley’s car

“It’s Trey,” she said huskily

Shane took a sip of his tea “This could be interesting”

But Jet was panicked “That’s an understatement”

Shane leaned against the kitchen counter and took another sip of tea “Don’t worry I’ on the front door, followed by another hard series of thuds, one, two, three

Jet set down her tea with a thunk “That doesn’t sound good”

Shane shrugged “Do you want to head out the back and escape while you can?”

“I’er, Shane And hopefully, neither are you” But her voice wobbled as she said it and she hoped she sounded more confident than she felt

She hed

Shane are of Jet on his heels as he headed for the front door He would have preferred for Jet to stay in the kitchen, but she was here, and he was deters cal else

But opening the front door, Trey’s anger was ihly “Show me”

“Show you what?” Shane asked coolly, not at all surprised to see Trey here, just surprised it had taken Trey this long to make an appearance Cormac and Troy had been in Shane’s face for awhile Had they only recently told Trey about Shane’s book?

Trey pushed past Shane, and his narrowed gaze fell on Jet His jaw hardened “I don’t knohat you’re doing here,” he said to Jet, his deep voice a ru—”