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need me right now.”
    “And Aunt Constance’s last boyfriend wasn’t nice!” Declan shouted, and I felt my face go red.
    “What did he do that wasn’t nice?” Gonzo asked him.
    “He hit her, and she hit him back with a lamp, and an ambulance had to come!” shouted Chloe.
    I looked Gonzo in the face, refusing to let him know how mortified I was, and he said, “If he hasn’t already been taken care of, just give me a name and he will be.”
    My dad used his deep, scary voice to say, “Oh, he’s been taken care of.”
    “Good for you, for teaching your daughter to defend herself with whatever’s at hand.”
    He didn’t respond, and I looked at the twins. “We’ve talked before about why it’s not okay to hit people at school, even if they hit you first. At school, there are teachers to act as referee. I didn’t have anyone around to keep him from hitting me, so I had to do something. Right?”
    Chloe looked at her plate and said, “I’m sorry, Aunt Constance. I didn’t know his nose would bleed so much if I hit him.”
    “I know you didn’t baby, but you got in a lot of trouble and almost got kicked out of school. You can’t do it again.”
    Gonzo’s smile told me he was pretty happy about the fact his daughter had given a boy a bloody nose, and I rolled my eyes at him with a grin.
    He’d scared me when I first saw him, but then I’d seen something else when he rescued the girls coming out of the bathroom. I’d wanted to soothe the broken man who’d cried when he’d first seen the twins’ picture… and even when he’d lost it and punched the daylights out of the wall, I hadn’t worried he was going to hit me . My heart went out to him, which is the last thing I’d expected to happen when I first saw a picture of the biker who looked like he’d just as soon gut you as speak to you.
    “You went overboard for lunch,” Harmony said. “It’s wonderful, thank you so much.”
    “Chloe helped me keep track of the time, and she helped bread the chicken. Declan counted the potatoes and brought me things from the refrigerator when I asked, and they both helped dry the pots and pans after I washed them during cleanup.”
    “We’re helpful,” Chloe declared, and Gonzo grinned at her.
    “I bet you are, Clara.”
    He froze as he said it, and then was up and forty yards away from us facing the other direction in a matter of seconds. Harmony stood as she said, “I’ll go talk to him.”

Chapter 4
    G onzo

    I ’d called her Clara .
    It’d just slipped out, but my baby girl hadn’t been much older than Chloe when she’d been killed, and she looked so damned much like her.
    I heard and smelled Harmony behind me, and she stood with me a few moments before saying, “I can’t begin to know what this is doing to you, but I know it’s opened a lot of old wounds. You know we’re here for you.”
    “I know you’d go to the ends of the earth for me but I’m glad you don’t have to. I have kids, and I have to be able to look at them without seeing the ghosts of my dead kids. How do I do that? I don’t even know where to start.” My heart felt as if it were being ripped from my chest, but no way was I telling that story to the kids or their aunt today. I had to make them like me, and I couldn’t do that while so grief stricken.
    “It’ll happen. This is the first time you’ve met them, of course your mind is making comparisons.” She stood in front of me and reached up to cradle my cheek in her hand. “You’re strong and you’re alive. You didn’t ask for this, but I know you well enough to know you’re going to do right by those kids.”
    “Their aunt has kept them alive, so maybe I’m best leaving them in her care? I want to take them home with me but I’d just have to hire a nanny for nights, and they’re in preschool during the day so what would be the point? They have a life with her. Her home is their home.”
    “You’ll figure out the details — nothing has to be decided