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No one was better at getting infor her specialties were questions that subtly pinned you in place, then forced you to spill your guts when you’d sworn to keep your silence on a subject forever

"We’re not actually together right now" It wasn’t hot out but he eating "I blew it"

His mother watched him carefully before her mouth curved up into a smile "I’ve hoped for this for sowhom you could finally love more than your family, someone ould turn you inside-out and toss you off your path" His leeful in the face of his misery "Someone just like Nicola for you to bloith"

Dumbfounded, Marcus could only watch his mother walk aith a smile on her face as Lori yelled out, "Marcus, you’re here!"

Finally, he got his feet working again and headed toward the group out in the middle of the backyard

A half-dozen voices ca way too close to Nicola He knew his youngest brother’s type Nicola was exactly the kind of wouys at the fire station liked to take hoht

"Gabe," he said, "you’re needed in the kitchen"

His brother looked doubtful Gabe was notorious for leaving the kitchen looking like a tornado had hit it Fortunately, he shifted his seat back and started to get up, but before he did, he leaned over to say sohed and Marcus’s hands started to curl into fists

Hell, he’d practically raised Gabe from a baby He shouldn’t want to kill hih, and looked at her a little too long, with a little too much interest

Fortunately, before Marcus could leap across the yard to flatten his youngest brother, Chloe walked over to say hello with a hug "I feel like I haven’t seen you in forever"

Chase was a step behind his fiancée "We’re thinking about co up to the winery for a visit so Chloe close

The two of them had fallen in love at his winery and Marcus had been amazed to watch his brother fall head over heels for a woman he’d justcould happen so fast

But now he understood perfectly

"Couest house is always yours It’s been too long"