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talk about Brendan.”
    “Okay, how about Brody? Has he come to his senses yet?”
    “As a matter of fact, there is some news on that front.” It was impossible to keep anything from Macy. She would have known I was trying to hide something if I didn’t spill my guts. “He showed up at my place last night.”
    Macy clapped her hand over her mouth as she stared at me, wide-eyed. “Shut. Up! Did you sleep with him?”
    “No, of course not.” Not that I wasn’t tempted. “We just talked.” And kissed a little. Including one scorching good-bye kiss that left me wondering whether he’d be waiting for me to get home so we could pick up where we’d left off. He hadn’t said whether he had to head back to Vegas, and I’d been afraid to ask. I didn’t want to make it seem as though we were settling back into a relationship where we owed it to each other to check in and clear our plans with each other.
    “About your relationship?”
    “No, about his dad.” I didn’t think Brody would mind if I confided in my sister. He always turned to his brothers when he needed advice, and he knew my sister and I did the same. “Apparently Jack came to see him in Vegas, and Brody was having a hard time dealing with it. He needed someone to talk to, and I tried to be there for him. End of story.”
    Macy raised a brow. “Nothing with you and Brody is ever that cut and dried.”
    “Well, this time it was,” I said, shrugging. “I know him better than anyone, aside from his family, and he wasn’t ready to talk to them about this. He’s not sure they’d want to know he talked to their father, so he thought he should get an unbiased opinion.”
    “You do know how weird it is for a guy to turn to his ex-girlfriend when he needs support, don’t you?”
    “It’s not like I invited him to call me if he needed to talk. But I couldn’t very well turn him away when he turned up at my door in the middle of the night.”
    Gaping at me, Macy asked, “He showed up in the middle of the night?”
    “Uh, yeah. Didn’t I mention that part?” I asked, picking an imaginary piece of lint off my straight black skirt.
    “No, you didn’t,” she said, looking amused. “So let me get this straight. He shows up at your door in the middle of the night. He’s vulnerable and confused. You’re both single and still hot for each other, and nothing happened?”
    I diverted my eyes to the bank of windows lining the south wall of my office. I should have known better than to think I could keep anything from her. “We may have kissed… a few times,” I said, barely loud enough for her to hear.
    “Ah ha, I knew it,” Macy said, clapping once. “I knew you couldn’t be alone with him without something happening.”
    “That’s not true,” I said, suddenly defensive. I didn’t appreciate my sister’s assumption that I had no self-control with Brody… even if there was a grain of truth to that. “We were in Colorado for five whole days for Jaci and Nex’s wedding and nothing happened.”
    “Only because you had a boyfriend. Can you honestly tell me if Stephan wasn’t a factor, you wouldn’t have slept with him?”
    I’d asked myself that question dozens of times and still didn’t have the answer. “I don’t know. I just know I’m glad nothing happened. It would only have confused me more.”
    Macy leaned forward, looking concerned. “Hey, what’s wrong? Aren’t you happy that Brody’s back in your life?”
    “I’m not sure how I feel. Just when I think I’m getting over him, I’m forced to confront my feelings in Colorado and realize I’m not really over him at all. So I break up with Stephan and think I just need to give myself a little more time to get over Brody. Then he shows up on my doorstep out of the blue, after I haven’t seen or heard from him in months, and sends me into another tailspin. It’s so frustrating!”
    The phone on my desk rang, and Macy glanced at it before she said, “How about we finish this