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Of course his brother would think that He was the fun Holt twin, the funny one, the nice one It had been that way since they were kids Why? Because Will cleaned up the ugly so Web didn’t have to see it This time the only way to make that happen was to pull back the curtain

“Da his voice louder than hehi out a deep breath, Will lowered his volume “She’s just in it for theyou and whatever she proer”

“Hadley Donavan?” his brother said, disbelief and aht laughing “One of my best friends, Hadley?”

Will gritted his teeth, willing hiain “Yes”

“One, she’s not a gold digger and two, I didn’t give her any money,” Web said

“Thank God” The tight pain in his chest remained, but some

of the agony twisting his gut relented a bit “If it’s just a pro to stand on”

“You knoho you sound like right now?”

“The brother who just saved you froer?” The words left a foul taste in his mouth

“Our grandmother”

Of all the things Web could have said to hi would have hit home as hard as that comparison “Bullshit”

Web scoffed “You’re obsessed with two things right now: our faht That sure sounds like Grandma to me Of course, you’re obsessed with Hadley, too”

“I atching out for you” The roiling in his gut rushed back, worse than before,his palms sweaty and his chest ache It was as if his body were revolting, calling hiood She almost fooled me”

“No, the asshole who fooled you was you,” Web said “Hadley and I are friends, just friends I’ve tried loaning Hadley money so she could leave that job where they treated her like shit and finally start her couess is that if she has the money now, it’s because it came from her family Did you even bother to ask her where it came from, or did you just make an assumption?”

The e of Hadley in the cabin flashed in his one wide as she flinched back as if his words had struck her He’d taken it as a sign of guilt, the shock of being caught What if…