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And yet, the difference was Well, she didn’t know

“I’ve been watching the site,” she told hi table, leaning on the wall “Marie sent me the link Your article’s the headliner”

“Yeah, it’s had thousands of hits But when it’s a hundred thousand I’ll get excited,” he told her His grin was different, too It made her stomach jump

Shaking her head, Gabi asked him about the editor of the independent news site who’d published hi—a local woAnd she believed that if Liam turned his focus to human interest, with his ability to see inside the story to the honest e coues

Gabrielle wanted to ask as going on with his father But she didn’t

And he didn’t say He’d never not said before

Maybe that hy she didn’t just ask She’d been awake in the hts that week—concerned about Lia upstairs

It wasn’t until that Wednesday, when Marie called her at the office to tell her that someone from the FBI had just been in the coffee shop and asked to see Lia up with her last client—a divorced woman with three children who needed help with child custody enforce soft-sided briefcase over her shoulder and locked her office door

She didn’t stop to say goodbye to anyone and sped hoet to Liaht to counsel, just in case Lia to be fine He didn’t always take things as seriously as Gabrielle knew he should

Andhe was hers Hers and Marie’s They looked out for him whenever he was around And now that they had hiain—for the first time in more than a decade—she feltextra responsible At least until he settled in

Clearly his father hadn’t been pleased by the Arapahoe deal That,about the old man for the first time ever

Once home, she opted not to wait for the as yet unfixed and very slow elevator in their building and took the stairs to Liam’s

She knew she’d done the right thing—barging in on him uninvited like this—when Liam opened the door to her knock He hite with shock and let her in without saying a word—not even asking how she’d known to be there Heart thudding, she followed hi room, where asuit coats, sat on opposite ends of the sofa

Liam introduced her by name She added, “I’m an attorney”

The fe herself as Gwen Menard, and her associate as Mark Howard, showed her badge and looked at Liam “You called your attorney?”