Page 2 of The Chance

Three were Guthrie’s sisters. The rest were just… pure temptations. No use denying that. Four gorgeous women hewasn’trelated to were right there in his siblings’ front living room. Some of them were in their jammies.

Including Dr. Aubrey Fisher.

There were a lot of women in the family ranch house tonight. Women dressed in man-tempting pajamas, women who smelled extremely nice, and who drew men’s attention effortlessly.

Excluding his sisters, of course. He wasn’t ever going to let them draw a man’s attention effortlessly. It just wasn’t ever going to happen. He’d told them that kind of thing before—they told him he was delusional and patted him on the head.

His sisters could be a bit bratty sometimes. It was Guthrie’s job to keep them in line. His, and his brothers’. Why else had his parents had five boys before they’d ever had that first daughter? It was so Guthrie and his brothers could wrangle them. All five of them were needed to do the job. He was sure of it. His sisters were menaces to the world, after all.

All three of them. Although, Greer looked a little green at the moment, now that he looked closer. He hoped she wasn’t coming down with something—she was a social worker who worked with kids. There were a few viruses keeping his office hopping lately.

Guthrie had to study the occupants of his family living room. He just had to.

The family ranch had been invaded.

He, his brothers Grady, Gunn, and Gene—and their pal Chad—had apparently interrupted a slumber party. One designed to cheer Aubrey up.

And, he suspected, convince her to report the asshole who had hurt her. If she didn’t… Guthrie was going to find the guy and teach him some appropriate manners. On principle alone.

He looked up. Into perfect blue eyes. Uncertainty stared right back at him.

Perfect eyes. Watching him with fear.

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Guthrie Hiller wasthe most beautiful of the five Hiller brothers. And that was saying a lot. Tall, strong, handsome, wealthy, and rugged—the Hiller brothers had a reputation in this town of eight hundred.

The women of the county wanted them. Badly.

Him, especially. He was a successful physician, after all. Single, wealthy doctor.

A prime catch.

A prime ass. Aubrey was one thousand percent sure of that.

But that was only toher.Genesis had told her Aubrey resembled his ex-girlfriend who had sliced him to pieces. By the time Aubrey had learned that, habits were already in place between them.

She wasn’t all that interested in changing those habits, either.

Shehadn’tdeliberately looked like his ex-girlfriend, after all. If he was such a jerk he couldn’t understand that, well… that was his problem.

“I’ll have you a script for amoxicillin in the morning,” Chad Fields said. “You’ll need to take them for the full ten days. Youknow the drill, and what to watch for. Now… who is going with me to kick Dr. Justin Michaels’s ass?”

She almost thought he meant it. And there was anger in Chad’s beautiful blue eyes. He had his younger sister’s eyes. That sister was right there, ready to go to battle next to him. For Aubrey. Chantal had a bit of a temper when she thought she was protecting someone she cared about.

Aubrey adored Chantal for that.

She just nodded, watching Guthrie Hiller. He bothered her more than Chad Fields ever had. She fought the urge to squirm on the barstool where she sat.

Aubrey had always hated being the center of attention at all. “Thank you, Dr. Hiller.”

He shot her an irritated look. “You’re sitting at my family’s kitchen island; I think you can call me Guthrie.”

Aubrey looked around to see who was listening to what they were saying.

No one. Everyone else had moved away.

Dr. Fields had carried a protesting Genny to the couch, and he now sat wrapping her ankle.

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