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It was then when she wondered why she’d hauled around a vehicle stuffed full of insignificant s had been unloaded in a matter of minutes
Moving was siood-bye to her treasureda pretty penny selling as a furnished unit full of oil paintings and fine art pieces, expensive furniture and colorful—not to mention overpriced—draperies While she’dcontemporary there She’d inherited a house filled to the brim with priceless antiques, fah the years
She focused on the ten-bay garage located behind the house A wave of sadness washed over her Her grandfather’s dream would soon be realized, but he wouldn’t be there to see the end result
Taking a deep breath, she placed her hands on her hips, leaned against her Jeep, and glared at the rohite fencing located between the Malone place and the McDavid land She wondered about two hard and rugged cowboys then And it wasn’t the first tiht about Rex and Luke McDavid
Sometimes she could close her eyes and still see theest McDavid brother, in his red Jeep Wrangler When her iination ran wild, her ht down to his chiseled cheeks, cut abs, and golden tan, soardless of the time of year Shorter than Rex, Luke sported a stocky build with thick, e hands Those were two attributes she’d always loved
His hands had roamed over her His arms had held her
Jerking when she heard so in the bushes, Lucy shook her head and tried to defy the resurfacing me at the edge of a sarden They looked around as if they knew better than to hop a the rows of cucureat
The small creatures reached the outskirts of bunny heaven Inthe bittersweet past and the history she shared with the McDavids often stirred a ood, some bad
The years spent there were always recalled in the sa special about one or both McDavid s ended
Luke and Rex broke her heart She ran away, and she would’ve kept running if her grandfather hadn’t passed away
“Dae of ninety-one,” sheof how her grandfather ht respond to such an outburst Her words would please him After all, Mason Malone was supposed to live forever He always planned for to it to be his last
Lucy often credited her grandfather’s s for her departure, but the McDavid brothers were responsible They also contributed to the list of reasons she’d decided to return She should’ve been asharandfather Eventually, she would’ve come back anyway
Lucy had an old score to settle, and she’d never been one to let sleeping dogs lie Lucky for her, Mason Malone—her deceased, wealthy grandfather and business partner—gave her one hell of an excuse to come back home and wake the beasts that damn near destroyed her
“She just pulled in,” Luke McDavid announced, entering the kitchen Rex kept his head under the sink He was trying to fix the leak Luke o, but ater in the floor, the proof was in the otten around to it
“She sure took her oeet time”
“Not really,” Luke said, squatting beside him “I told you after the old man kicked the bucket she’d be here in a matter of days”
“A month,” Rex blurted out “It took her a damn month”
“Her mother said she was overseas when Mr Malone died”
“Handa wrench off to the side before fiddling with an O-shaped ring “And ould her mother know? Whenher at the funeral, she looked just like always, high as a kite and three sheets to the wind”
“Do you even knohat you’re doing?” Luke asked, passing off the requested tool
“No I just like tight, damp spaces”