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“What are you gonna do?” Sam finally asked him curiously

Brock shook his head, hunching his shoulders as he sipped at his coffee There was nothing to do but accept it He hated it The pain of it lay in his gut like acid But what else could he do? He couldn’t hurt Marly

“I heard her and Cade this , Brock Cade’s furious” Sam kept his voice low as he leaned closer to Brock

Brock grih his body Daht Marly’s pain would steal away fro the fairness of it, or of be it Marly hadn’t been raised as they had been She had been sheltered, loved during the years she had lived in their home She didn’t understand the bond they shared, the needs they had

“I’ll take care of it” Brock shook his head

Silence descended once again It was strained, questions unsaid, explanations no longer important now

“Hoill you take care of it?” Sam finally asked him quietly

Brock flashed hiruntled look

“I don’t know, Sam, do I need your permission, whatever I do?”

Sah his hair, and Brock knew Saine how Cade felt

“She won’t handle Cade touching another woman, I don’t think” Sam shook his head sadly “It’s what Cade’s been afraid of”

“And I won’t push her into it,” Brock proet Sarah up and head out as soon as I talk to Cade””

He rose to his feet, feeling tired, lacking the enthusiasm of the day that he had felt when he first woke up Damn He didn’t knohat to do now He would have toon with himself and Sarah He wasn’t about to do without her in his bed, in his ar as he could keep her there He would help her clear the trash out of her house, then co between the ranch and her house would suck, but it beat the alternative

“She isn’t the type anyway, Brock,” Sam told him sadly as Brock started to turn away from him “She wouldn’t ease into the family You know that”

Brock wasn’t so certain of that She was untutored, innocent in many ways, but he had seen the spark of excitement in her eyes when he came to her in that damned bar She knew the ruust brothers and the lover of the oldest The ru for years