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“I know you do,” she replied “I care about you, too”

“And it’s only because I care about you that I’ain …”

Katie tapped her fingertips against the steering wheel and stopped listening

She understood his worry Ever since she’d confessed that she was et divorced, Caleb had becoo back to the way he’d been before, but so far, no luck

Five years older than her, her brother was a born nice guy who had spenthoo to help take care of their parents after their dad had a stroke Katie had been living in his house rent-free at the ti her days in elastic-waist pants,daytime TV Her husband, Levi, had cleaned her out and dropped her like a bad habit, and she’d returned from the life they’d built in Alaska in defeat She’d practically regressed to adolescence by the time Caleb pulled her out of her self-pity slump

He gave her a job running the office of his new company, Camelot Security, and after the first ain Coo left in her after all That she actually wanted to do so with herself

Caleb was also the one who’d encouraged her to enroll in a couple of online classes He’d even appointed hi

her whip her body into its best shape in years

He was a great brother, but Katie was done with the coddling She’d turned over a new leaf He needed to get with the program

“Sean, are you hearing all this?” he asked

Sean nodded He was invisible to Caleb, but the two of the, because Caleb said, “Great Give me a call after you’ve talked to Pratt I want to hear the details of these threats he’s supposedly getting And if you can, find out why he’s brought this case to us instead of giving it to his security team from Palmerston, because—”

“Caleb,” Katie interrupted

“What?”

“Give it a rest”

“I just—”

“We’ve been over this and over this Sean gets it I get it We’ll call you Now let us do the job”

Her brother exhaled explosively, whichtoday off?” she asked “Go ho”

Caleb and Ellen had ed about six minutes later He pretty much lived over at her place now, and he’d become more of a father to her son, Henry, than the two-year-old’s real father ever had

“God, no She won’t letstuff But I did tell Henry I’d take him to the hardware store”

“So why aren’t you doing that?”