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Soet no matter how a man tries

Logan Claiborne was frowning, and not because the sun was in his eyes as he sped down the narroisting road that led to the antebellurown up

He should be concentrating on Mitchell Butler and the y, or on hoas going to deal compassionately with Grandpère once he arrived at Belle Rose

Instead, his grip tightened on the steering wheel as he re, dark eyes of the voluptuously proportioned swao to save his twin brother, Jake

Until this randfather had been right, that Cici Bellefleur didn’t belong in their world; that he’d had to save Jake froe their father had ant drearandeur as well as her need to impress had nearly wrecked the family fortune He’d continued to tell hiht to do what he’d done even after he’d secured the family empire, even after Cici had made a name for herself with her camera and had proved herself a woman of talent and worth

Then his grandfather had called hi as thrilled as an infatuated kid when he’dtours of the house together

Why had she, a farapher and writer, really come home? What did she want?

“Nine years ago you were dead set against her because of her uncle,” Logan had reminded him Grandpère had always distrusted Cici’s uncle

“In a long life, a man makes a few mistakes Remember that I made more than a few Someday you may have a stroke that leaves you with too ret so Cici for her uncle Bos It wasn’t her fault he fought cocks, ran with a wild bunch and operated a bar”

“Do you reo you didn’t want her anywhere near Jake orpretty wild back then?”

“Well, I’m sorry for that, if I did”

“If you did?” It was still difficult to reconcile the grandfather he had noith the do individual who had raised him