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“You punched me,” he says in his defense.

I grin. “Yeah. I did.”

He spits again. “All right. I’ll let you two get back to whatever. Don’t be a fucking stranger now. This shit is past us. I’ll talk to K. I miss my brother.”

“Me too,” I say.

“I’ll let you know what K says. Maybe we can start having some family dinners or something. Shit, I don’t know.”

“That would be nice,” I say. “I’ll see ya.”

Bryce lifts his hat from the ground and walks back to his truck. I look down at Dalton. “Well, that went well.”

She laughs. “Good God. Is that normal for you two?”

“It’s notnotnormal,” I reply with a shrug. “You still want to go to the game?”

“How about we go eat and have a drink?”

“Fine with me.”

“Hudson’s?”

“Is there anywhere else to get a juicy burger, a nice cold beer, and be able to watch the game?”

She laughs. “No. I don’t guess there is.”

“It’s your fault,” I tell her. “You got me hooked.”

She shakes her head. “You’re crazy, you know that, right?”

We both go to climb into the truck. “Crazy for you.”

Chapter Sixty

Bryce

I step out of the truck and head inside the house. K is home from the store, but Lou is still here from watching Rylee for me.

“Hey,” I say, walking into the kitchen.

“Bryce, what happened?” K asks, walking over to me and touching my lip.

“Ouch,” I pout just so I can get more attention from my wife.

“Who did this to you?”

“Jace,” I say as Lou walks in with Rylee. “There’s my girl.” I move past K and over to Lou, reaching my hands out so I can hold Rylee. She looks over my face with her pretty blue eyes, melting my heart.

“Jace?” K questions. “Why?”

“I kinda did some stalking.”

Kat leans her hip against the counter. “Can you tell me how you kinda stalk? And who were you stalking? Jace?”

“Well, I went to his apartment, noticing his truck was there, and I waited for him to come out.”

“Why?”

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