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Diego scowled.“We will.”

“I’m glad I sent you two to pick her up.I knew you’d take care of her.”

“You’re welcome,” Gavin said and flinched.“Talk to you later.”He heard Jared hang up and then turned to Diego.“Fuck, I hope he never finds out about the airport.”

“I hope he doesn’t either.”

Gavin stood.“Let’s get some dinner going.She probably won’t wake up, but we’ll have a plate for her if she does.”He had different scenarios of what happened between mother and daughter to account for the discord between them.The fact that Tessa had known what her reception was going to be told him it most likely happened before she traveled.

The men spent the next hour making dinner.They grilled some steak and baked some potatoes, which they considered a very American meal as a homecoming for her.

“I hope she’s not a vegetarian,” Diego said.

Gavin snorted.“What are we going to do with her?”

Diego set down his fork and wiped his mouth with a napkin.“You’re going to think this is crazy, but I want her.”

“Want her to what?”

“I want her to be in between us.”

Gavin’s eyes widened.“Yeah, I’m sure Jared would be thrilled with that.”

“Tell me you don’t find her attractive?”

Gavin leaned back in his chair.“I admit, even though she’s tired, she’s beautiful, but there are so many obstacles in our way.”

Diego nodded.“Name them?”

“Her brother, for one.Secondly, we don’t know if she’d even consider a menage relationship.What about her plans?What if she goes off again?She hasn’t been home in three years,” Gavin commented.

“Those are all things that can be figured out.Let’s spend some time with her and see if we think it can go anywhere.We’ll move on from there.”

Gavin nodded.“I’ll try.But I have to admit if I fall for her and she leaves, I won’t try again for a long time.”

“I get that, but have you considered the fact that we both find her attractive a big plus?We haven’t felt that since college.”

Gavin grinned.“You’re right.I wonder what little Tami, our ex, is up to now.She was a firecracker in bed.”

Diego snorted.“Yeah, she was, but out is where we had the problem, remember?”

“She was about as scatterbrained as a person can get.She forgot everything.Remember when she forgot to pick dinner up on her way home from class?We had twenty people waiting.When she finally walked in the door an hour late, it still didn’t dawn on her she’d forgotten something.”

“The fact that we both texted and called her all day to remind her made it even worse.”

“I think that’s when our relationship started going downhill fast,” Gavin remembered.

“Yeah, I’ve never missed her, which tells you something.”

Gavin shrugged.“She wasn’t the one.”

“We’ll see if Tessa is.”

Gavin stood and grabbed some of the plates.“I’m going to check on her.”

“All right.I’ll start the dishes.”

Gavin walked down the hallway to the master bedroom.It was a room they had never shared with a woman before.Currently, they both slept in bedrooms upstairs.He’d always felt it was wrong to bring women home and use the room.It was for their future wife, and they wanted to be able to tell her she’d been the only one in it.

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