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"Do you mean only for the calendar, or…?" He let the question hang there, unfinished. I knew why, too. He was still goading me, although I couldn’t figure out why.

I mean, yeah, he'd been goading me for years, but the thing with Cami was holding his interest more than it should've.

I heard myself say, "You don't have a thing for her, do you?"

"Me?" he laughed. "No. Butyoudo."

I frowned. "Says who?"

"You don't have to say it," he said. "It's written all over your face."

Shit.

This wasn't what I wanted to hear. Yeah, maybe I did find her interesting, but I'd never act on it. Female companionship – that was easy to find,tooeasy in some ways.

But a nanny for my sister? Now,thatwas difficult.

No way I'd be mixing the two.

I told Chase, "You're full of it."

"You can think that all you want," he said. "It doesn't make it true."

Wisdom from Chase. It was the last thing I needed.

And I was about tell him so when Brody ambled into the office, looking like he had all the time in the world.

I told him, "You're late."

He glanced at his watch. "It's only twelve after."

"Yeah. And you're still late."

At the table, Chase laughed.

I looked to him and said, "What's so funny?"

"That's the same thing you said to me."

"Yeah, because you were late, too."

Chase jerked a thumb toward Brody. "Not as late as him."

Brody looked to Chase and said, "What, you didn't tell him?"

I looked from brother to brother. "Tell me what?"

Brody replied, "I told Chase I'd be fifteen minutes late." He moved toward the conference table. "So in a way, I'm early."

Great.Now both of them were pissing me off. I looked back to Chase and said, "Why didn't you mention he was gonna be late?"

"Because we were busy." Chase looked to Brody and added, "Discussing Cami the nanny."

As Brody claimed a seat at the table, he looked to me and said, "Nowthat'sfunny."

If there was a joke, I didn't get it. "Why?"

"Because she's at the house with Arden right now."