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they’re opposites. It’s confusing,” Chase went on.
    “I was looking for something new, I guess,” Brooke lied.
    Chase eyed her for a long moment, then dropped it.
    “Kay. As long as it’s what you want,” he said.
    Brooke opened her mouth, the truth on the tip of her tongue. Then she looked out at Winter Pass’s beautiful wooded glory, the place her parents had put so much love and sweat into. Chase was just now settling here again, the only place they’d ever called home.
    What right did Brooke have to risk all of that?
    “Yeah. It’s the right thing,” she said, feeling the bitterness of the lie as she spoke.
    “You can do it here, you know,” Chase said. “The wedding, I mean. We have the space. We’d just need to spruce things up. It’s not really at the standard of Lynne Marchand right now, but… we could get some guys out here tomorrow, get it rolling.”
    “Yeah?” Brooke said, canting her head and watching her brother. “You think that’d work?”
    “Yeah, B,” Chase said, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. “You should go grab some stuff from your place and stay out here for a few days, make sure it’s all done right. Spend some time with your only sibling. What do you say?”
    Brooke smiled and nodded, her anxiety easing a fraction.
    Maybe this would all work, after all.

    T rue to his word , Chase had a whole crew of guys working when Brooke arrived at Winter Pass the next morning. After a whole night of Travis’s snarling disappointment, she was ready to hang with her brother and just… not stress.
    Everyone chipped in to help the work crew as they swapped out furniture and mattresses, repaired windows, and did a hundred other little tasks. Things went surprisingly fast, and Brooke had a great time clowning around with her brother. She hadn’t let loose in a long time, so wearing a comfortable pair of jeans, drinking beer, and rehashing childhood stories as she worked alongside Chase was pretty amazing.
    Unfortunately, hanging with Chase also meant hanging with his two inseparable best friends. Brooke acquainted herself with Penny, Harlan’s new lady, and struck up an easy camaraderie. True to Brooke’s memory, Penny had grown up in Winter Pass, but their parents’ incomes relegated them to two different social classes, preventing them from ever meeting. Brooke had gone to private school, taken horseback riding lessons, joined French club. Penny was more laid back, though at the mention of parents the other woman just rolled her eyes and pulled a face.
    Money didn’t matter when it came to crazy parents, apparently. At any rate, Brooke liked Penny instantly… when she could get her attention, that is. Penny and Harlan were glued to the hip, giving each other teasing glances as they moved mattresses and cleaned cobwebs from the highest parts of the lodge’s ceilings.
    Just now, Harlan had Penny on his shoulders, walking her around as she giggled and swept a long feather duster over the rafters in the lodge’s big main living room. Brooke tried not to stare as she wiped down baseboards nearby, though Harlan and Penny seemed not to notice anyone else’s presence. They were totally, grossly in love. Brooke wrinkled her nose as she watched them, her stomach giving a funny flip flop.
    She remembered what that felt like, all too well..
    “Jealous?” Pax asked, coming up behind her on silent feet.
    Brooke was crouching to wipe down a baseboard, and he surprised her enough to make her lose her balance. She fell onto her butt and glared up at Paxton, unappreciative of his stealth.
    “No,” Brooke said defensively. “I’m just… thinking about other stuff.”
    Smooth, Brooke.
    “Riiiiight,” Pax said, wiping sweat from his brow.
    Brooke let herself stare at him for a minute. He was clad in a tight white t-shirt and well-worn jeans, plus his usual shit-kicking Doc Marten boots. His dark hair was tousled, his damp shirt clinging to his sculpted shoulders and torso, his jeans