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Astonished, she started to stand and then sat back down “Did you know that when you rented it?”

He shook his head “I hoped I didn’t know It wasn’t until I arrived today and saw the s on the back door, Cray Cabin, that I was sure”

“Does the cabin feel fa here?”

“No I hoped I would, but nothing resonates”

She knotted her hands, hearing his disappoint to tie him to his mother and his brothers…to the past he’d lost…

“Why don’t you reach out to Brock?” she asked “Tell him who you are and what you know Maybe he’ll ree difference between you?”

“He was born in 1975 He’s seven years older”

“So he could re theo see you”

“Or he could just think she’d gone for groceries”

“At seven, yes, but you said this went on throughout your childhood…for four years…? By eleven he had to suspect so”

Shane stopped pacing and shoved a hand through his dark long hair, pushing it from his forehead “I’d hoped,” he said, his voice pitched low

She felt his anguish and the critical words that had rushed to her lips disappeared

How could she criticize when he’d struggled and suffered so uess his decisions when he’d pieced this ether on his own? There had never been anyone there for hirandmother’s death, and she saw for the first time why he was really here, in Montana

Not for a ation

He’d come to find his family

He’d come to find himself

Her eyes burned and she drew a deep breath to ease the aching in her chest He’d probably coently as possible, she said, “Shane, they can’t accept you if they don’t knoho you are”

His broad shoulders shifted, a careless dish the front door, into the night, letting the old door bang behind him

She was right

Jet was absolutely right

And yet nothing ever quite worked the way one expected

He’d coh hopes—and in the past nine ain that expectations were bound to lead to disappointment

To be honest, he hadn’t even thought he had any expectations when he arrived late last March looking for a place to live

He’d told himself he wasn’t attached to this fa them He wasn’t a Sheenan He wasn’t part of them All he wanted were facts Inforiven away That was all

But it wasn’t true

It was a lie he’d told hilas story was just an excuse to come to Montana The real reason he was here was to unravel his past

And he’d nearly done that now Nearly, but not quite

The door opened and closed, he didn’t turn around, not wanting Jet to see hoas…how frustrated he remained He’d come to terms with his mother But he still didn’t knohat to do about his father or brothers

The father was gone Dead But the five brothers? They were very much alive

Chapter Twelve

Shane roceries he’d picked up at the market earlier in the day They had wine and salad, too, and it was all tasty and satisfying, but Shane was distracted during the meal, and Jet didn’t press him for conversation To be honest, she welco about him, and the Sheenans

Jet had come to know Brock as well as anyone not in his inner circle, but she couldn’t iine how Harley’s husband would react when confronted with the news that he had ahe’d known or suspected? Or had Catherine ed to keep it a secret from everyone?

Either way, Jet hoped Brock would be positive and welco It would be important because as the eldest, he also wielded the ht not be pleased to have Shane on his doorstep

At bedtiht with Shane She didn’t want to sleep alone, not when he was so close by, but when their goodnight kiss beca tremendous control

“This is exactly how ret in the husky tone “I want you so much, babe You have to know that”

“I do”

“Then we have to hold off until it’s right”

She tried to smile but failed “You are seriously disciplined”

“You’ll thank me later”

“Will I?”

“That serious discipline will pay off nicely in bed”

Her eyebrows lifted “Oooh Sounds interesting”

“Even better, it feels so good”