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“I’ll call Billie I don’t need a ride,” she said finally before turning and disappearing back up the stairs

Shane wasn’t sure how long he stood in silence, gazing at the top of the stairs Finally, he rabbed the sander and once e piece of teak Unlike his mind and his heart, his motions were controlled and the sounds of classic Van Halen blotted out the sound of a car pulling up to his place

And of the slairl who’d damn near broken him

Chapter Seven

It was a week after the wedding-that-never-happened and Bobbi was about to face her grooroom and fiancé she’d stood up As it turned out, he’d left for their honeyotten back to town the night before He had left a e with Herschel earlier and she knew he’d be by shortly

Her sister Billie thought the whole thing eird—taking hison as supposed to have been his honey to Billie, it would have made more sense for hih the ith

Bobbi knew that Gerald didn’t have too uy friends, at least none outside of business and she couldn’t fault hi to do, though really, his mother?

She glanced down at the dia her hand slightly so the two carat stone reflected the bright sunlight that filtered in from the kitchen

“God, you’re still wearing that thing?”

She turned, her expression tightening as her other sister Betty wandered into the kitchen, her lithe foraped open, showing off more than just a little peek of her breasts, in fact, Bobbi’s frown deepened as her sister stretched and both of the girls fell out

“Are you kidding me? Can you please put some clothes on? Gerald will be here any s”

Betty tossed her head, her long hair sliding over her shoulder and grinned Slowly…carefully, she tugged the ends over her exposed nipples and then tightened the belt

“Daet dressed It is two in the afternoon after all and lord knows Gerry doesn’t need the added excite that he only fantasized about on his uh, honeymoon”

Soan to pulse back in the recesses of Bobbi’s brain A sharp, so, that drew Bobbi’s frown deeper across her forehead

There was a tio, when Betty and Bobbi had been close Really close The other triplet, Billie was the one who never really fit in She’d always been the third wheel The athletic toive two shits about clothes or ood time But Betty? She was always down for whatever kind of trouble Bobbi illing to get into, and damn, but they’d seen their share of trouble