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Not downstairs with Marie

And that thinking was going to get him in far more trouble than any reporter could

Tanner held the elevator door for the three of the out at the coffee shop,” he said “And I’d suggest, for now, the three of you hire a security guard to cover the private entrance in the back You don’t want soressive with any of your older residents as they coo”

“It’s probably all going to die down in a day or two,” Lia hi besides Gabrielle “News’s shelf life is shorter than a gallon ofthere have been no more mysterious letters left, or new paint jobs?”

“Until the reporters showed up this afternoon, all was quiet,” Marie told them She’d reported the quiet part both times Gabrielle had called from Florida

The three of thereed that Elliott should find twenty-four-hour security for the back of the property for at least the next week And then Marie spent the rest of the trip ho them with questions about their weekend Most particularly about Tamara

All in all, Liaree drop in temperature after Florida’s balround He was in a warood friends

The only blight that he felt more acutely than was called for was his jealousy of Marie, as in the backseat with Gabrielle In Florida, that had been his place

And he’d liked it there

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

GABRIELLE MADE IT to bed late due to Marie’s continuous questions about her weekend She was happy to share everything but her inappropriate feelings for Liam They’d disappear with time

She also didn’t mention his obvious distaste at the idea of his little sister thinking there could ever be anything romantic between Gabrielle and him That memory was for her alone To pull out anytime she started to daydream about his kisses

Or get jealous about his girlfriends

Or feel the hurts in his heart as though they were her own

Dressing with care the next —in a short, slim black skirt, a white blouse and a jacket, with a black-and-white polka-dotted scarf—she applied more makeup than she norht for a Christht inLiam