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to fend for herself and then still try to control the rest of her life.
    “I have an attorney,” she said, a little more firmly. “Andrew Caine.”
    Her father gave her a conciliatory smile that made her want to scream. “You’re overwrought, my dear. I’m sure this has been an upsetting evening for you. You’re not thinking clearly. Mr. Caine is a fine attorney, but how would it look if you had someone else represent you?”
    As if she had finally found a little backbone?
    She was spared from having to answer by the arrival of the police chief of Hope’s Crossing, Riley McKnight. William spotted him at the same time. “Finally!” he exclaimed and headed out to apprehend the police chief, leaving her and Dylan alone.
    An awkward silence seemed to settle around them like the cold snow falling outside. “Wow. Your dad…” “Is incredibly obstinate. Either that or he has selective hearing loss,” she finished for him.
“I was going to say he’s concerned about you. But those work, too.”
She could feel her face heat. “He’s tired of cleaning up my messes. Can you tell?”
“Caught a hint or two. What kind of messes, Genevieve?” Oddly, she didn’t mind his exaggerated French pronunciation of her name this time. It was actually kind of…sexy. “It’s a very long and boring story.” One she didn’t feel like rehashing right now. “Listen, I am sorry you were messed up in this whole thing. I had a bit too much to drink and I guess I went a little…crazy.”
    “I would describe it as completely bat-shit, but that’s just me.”
    “I did, didn’t I?” It wasn’t a completely unpleasant realization.
    “I wish I’d thought to shoot some video of you punching that woman. I haven’t enjoyed anything that much in…a long time.”
    She was glad, suddenly, that she’d given him something to find amusing.
    “Thank you for trying to protect me.”
    He shrugged, looking embarrassed. “I would say anytime but I’m afraid you might take me up on that,” he answered, just as Andrew Caine walked in.
    “Take you up on what?”
    “Nothing. Never mind. What the hell took you so long? Did you stop off for Thanksgiving leftovers at Pop’s on the way?”
    Andrew Caine looked very much like she remembered Dylan looking before his accident. Gorgeous. Brown hair, blue eyes, chiseled features.
    Tonight, Andrew’s short brown hair was rumpled a little on one side and she wondered if Dylan’s call had caught him in bed, or at least dozing on the couch while a basketball game played or something. His blue dress shirt was tailored and elegant but a little wrinkled, as if he had yanked it out of the laundry hamper at the last minute.
    “Tell me why I never get calls about you during business hours. I ought to leave your ass in here overnight. Hell, I should leave you here all weekend. It would serve you right.”
    “Guess it’s my turn for the annoying family lectures,” Dylan murmured in an aside to her.
    A little laugh burbled out of her; she couldn’t help it, and he gazed at her mouth for a moment before jerking his gaze back to his brother.
    “A bar fight at the Lizard. Really. Couldn’t you try for something a little more original?”
    Dylan shrugged and aimed his thumb at Genevieve. “She started it.”
    “Tell me you weren’t fighting with Genevieve Beaumont.” Andrew narrowed his gaze. “Pop is seriously going to kill you. And then Mayor Beaumont will scrape up what’s left of you and finish you off.”
    “That’s not what I meant.” Annoyance flickered across his expression. “I haven’t sunk that low.”
    “It was all my fault,” Genevieve said. “I…lost my head and your brother stepped in to try to calm the situation.”
    “It obviously didn’t work.”
    “Well, no,” she admitted.
    “What’s this I hear about you scalping a county prosecutor and breaking her nose?”
    She had actually physically attacked another human being. She flushed, hardly able to believe she had