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worst, but knowing Julia, she was prepared for anything.   They’d gone through this before.
    “Guess what?” Julia replied, her voice sounding anything but
distraught.
    You and Ben are back
together , Brooklyn guessed, rolling her eyes skyward and shaking her head
from side to side.   “What?”
    “Ben and I are back together.”
    “Really?”   She tried
to sound both surprised and upbeat at the same time.   “Hey Jules that’s great.”
    “Isn’t it?   Ben
apologized and sent me the most beautiful roses this afternoon, and as soon as
he finishes his shift we’re going to go out for a late dinner to talk things
out.”
    “Order the lobster,” Brooklyn teased.   “Just to make sure he’s really sorry.”
    “Good idea,” Julia giggled.  
    Personally Brooklyn thought that Julia could do a lot better
than Ben Shaner, but she knew better than to say anything.   They’d had that talk on more than one
occasion, and she knew that it was up to Julia to make her own decisions now.
    “So where were you when I called?   I was afraid you might have gotten stuck
somewhere in the storm.”
    “No, the roads were terrible, but I made it to the cabin a while ago.   I was eating dinner when you called.”
    “Since when don’t you take my calls when you’re eating?”
Julia asked, sounding slightly offended.
    “Um, when I’m sitting across the table from Ryan Landry.”
    “Excuse me?” Julia demanded, her voice raising at least two
octaves.   “Did you just say you were
having dinner with Ryan Landry?”
    “I know right.   How
crazy is that?”   Julia was the one person
who knew just how hard she’d fallen for Ryan way back when, and the only
person, aside from Ryan of course, who knew what she’d done the night of Wade’s
birthday party.
    “Ryan Landry is at Kate and Wade’s cabin?   Are you kidding me?”
    “No, I’m not kidding.   I swear.   When I talked to Kate
about coming up here for the week she didn’t realize that Wade had already
offered to let Ryan stay here while he’s out on injured reserve.   I guess he’s having some work done on his
house in Denver or something and he wanted to get away.”
    “Oh my gosh, Brook.   What are you going to do?”
    “Unfortunately there’s not much I can do.   It doesn’t look like the storm is going to
let up anytime soon, so I’m pretty much stuck here until the weather clears.”
    “Oh wow!   I can’t
believe it.”
    “I know.”
    “So has he said anything?   You know, about the last time you two saw each other?”
    “No, thank goodness.”   Clearly he was too much of a gentleman to bring it up.   “But you are never going to believe what happened when I first got here.”
    Fifteen minutes later she had completely filled Julia in on
all that had happened since she’d arrived at the cabin, and then for the next
ten minutes she listened in incredulity as Julia tried to convince her to give
it another shot with Ryan.   “Forget it
Jules, it’s not going to happen!   There
is no way I am going to humiliate myself like that ever again.”
    “Come on, Brooke.   I
didn’t say you have to try and seduce him, just flirt with him a little bit and
see what happens.”
    “You’re crazy.   I know
exactly what will happen, absolutely nothing.   Well actually, not nothing, he’ll just think that I’m the same pathetic
loser I was four years ago and reject me all over again.”
    “Brooklyn, you are not now ,
nor were you ever a pathetic loser,”
Julia stated adamantly.   “Besides, like
I’ve already told you a hundred times, I’m sure that he was interested, just like every other guy you’ve ever met,” she
added wryly, “he just didn’t act on it because of his friendship with Wade.”
    “Uh huh.”
    “I’m serious.”
    “Yeah, I know.”   She
hesitated.   “Maybe you’re right,” she
said, not because she believed it, but rather to placate Julia.
    “I know I’m right, so listen up.   “You’re