page38 (2/2)

I realized that the man really was in desperate need of another lawyer to help take off some of the stress from his shoulders and dived in to help out as al nor a lawyer Fros that I kneould never have come across in a law class

Everything fro tickets and custody battles cah the office on a daily basis, and I found that I was really looking forward to eventually taking over for themy mentor My as not particularly fun at tiot particularly frustrating, I still enjoyed it

“Gracie, you told me to remind you when it was a quarter to five,” Samantha said as she stepped into the sht beside his own

My eyes lifted fro frolanced at the little clock icon on et going if I was going pick up the huge cake that Raven had ordered for her brother’s ho so that I could pick it up and then help her set the ot home by six

Shutting down my computer, I pushed all my files back into the leather backed folder and locked the up my purse, keys, and phone as I did “Thanks, Sa if I’m just a few minutes later than I pro ho to herself for days now”

The skin around Sarinned “Wow, she reallyfor her brothers, but Jet—he’s her rock When Max died, Jet had already been acting as second father to her” The grin dimmed “It must have been pretty hard on her to have been away fro”

“Yeah,” I agreed Even though I only knew just a little about Raven, I’d realized from the start that Jet was the one that meant the most to her of her four brothers “I’ans”

I was also nervous as hell about uessed was the patriarch of the Hannigan clan I knehy he’d gone to prison, and honestly I was a little proud of thecare of his faotten convicted ofhis… well, I wasn’t all that sure what Felicity Bolton had been to hi her

I walked with Saoodbye as I left and cli to drive Hawk’d had the driver’s sidereplaced and the interior cleaned up since I’d dripped blood all over the steering wheel and seat when Harley had attackedto drive this car, though It was a little too powerful forso to be able to put a good bit of money down on a smaller car I hadn’t mentioned it to Hawk yet, but I would soon

I just didn’t want to start an argu so smoothly over the last feeeks My cheeks heated in reaction as flashes of our nights tangled in each other’s arh my mind like a slide show I had to adrowht that we slept in each other’s ar to lose the inner battle I continually had withhi ase

The only thing that was stopping me was that he hadn’t even hinted that he loved s were strong, but I was terrified of finding out that it was just the incredible sex ere having and not that he loved me as much as I loved him

I pushed the thoughts of my biker out of e cake that Raven had spent over an hour discussing with the baker, specifying how she wanted it designed I only kneas supposed to have athe lines of “Welcome Home Brother” on it Other than that, I was clueless on what the cake looked like

I definitely wasn’t expecting it to take two people to carry it out to the car and securing it in the trunk—the only fudging place big enough to hold it without the fear of it slipping around I drove ten miles under the speed limit to the bar and was still so worried about any sudden jarring disrupting the cake that I slowly slid into the parking lot and caer

I jumped out of the car, ready to run in and have her cooing to chance taking that thing on my own The sudden bitter slance around The scent was so strong that I instinctively knew that so

Glancing around, I tried to pinpoint where the s wood andfrom so other than the bar close enough to produce a smell that powerful My eyes lifted skyward andinto the air, co from the far side of the bar