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“You won’t touch her" I stuck er in his face "And if you hadn’t screwed around all the ti with Graha a year”

“Jeez What are you, my dad? Chill, okay? I’ll leave her alone I’”

“There are lots of fish in the sea” Iwomen on the beach “Take your pick but leave Celia out of it I'ame”

Greg glanced around and appeared to consider

“Later, bro” He punchedat the beach bar

Alone again, I turned around on the bar stool and considered Celia, as towel-drying her long dark hair She was officially nineteen, so by all rights she was a full-grooman and could do whatever—or whoirl I knew that much from what Graham had told me about her over the years Serious by nature, Celia was a bookho planned on studying cri in her dead father's footsteps

Her stepfather Spencer had practically kept her under lock and key during high school, and I could see why She was a beauty I hated to seehow persistent they could be

I turned back toschedule My father wanted me to stay in Boston and ith him, but I'd be drawn into the worst part of the business no anized crime My father had intended to take the bus

iness legit, but he’d failed

Grahaether but I wasn't sure things would work out Spencer hated ood idea about us, but I wanted to be coitimate and not use any of my family's dirty money

That had to count for so

If things didn’t work out with Graharandfather on my mother's side

No matter what choice Ion the fact that I’d never have Graham's beautiful little sister, he sat down beside me at the beach bar

"So, any news on your decision?" He grabbed a beer fro to stick with your dad? I knoants you to help Sean run things"

I frowned "What about Innova?" I asked,the na to start together