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went back and forth by boat every day.”
    “Not only that.” Having finally found his voice again, Finn shot Jess a quick wink, which seemed to ease some of her tension. “From the second she stepped off that Cessna, she made herself so indispensable to the old man that he couldn’t afford to have her anywhere but here every day.”
    “Hardly.” Jess’s quiet laugh made Finn smile, too. “Jimmy tried to get rid of me lots of times; I just wouldn’t listen to him.”
    “Thank God for that,” Liam said, lifting his glass in her direction.
    And while they didn’t go any deeper than that with Olivia, the rest of them knew Liam was talking about more than Jess keeping things going at the Buoys. She’d kept the old man going, too.
    After Ma left them, Da had taken to the bottle with a vengeance. He wasn’t so bad when there were guests at the Buoys, but during the off-season, when it was just him and his boys…things tended to get ugly.
    Once Jess arrived, though, that changed, because she never left, not even in the off-season. She helped the old man with the off-season upkeep and repairs while Finn was at school, but she also stood up to Da, refused to let him bully her, and finally helped him realize he had a serious problem. Sure, there were still a few times the old man got into one of his rages in front of Jess, but it wasn’t anything like it had been.
    And if Da hadn’t joined AA when he did…Finn inhaled a long slow breath; it was unlikely he or either of his brothers would have ever come back.
    Yup, Jessie Todd had changed everything for the O’Donnell family, and that was a debt they’d never be able to repay.
    “What do you think, Finn?”
    Blinking his brother’s face back into focus, Finn gave his head a quick shake and grinned.
    “Sorry? Kinda zoned out there for a second.”
    “Yeah, no shit.” Liam snorted. “We’re talking about where we’re going to put Sam and his crew next month.”
    “Thought it was already sorted out. Sam’ll take the empty guest room upstairs, and his crew can use the two empty A-frames out back.”
    “Right.” Liam nodded. “But once word gets out that he’s coming here, we’re going to have people looking for rooms that week, so if we move Sam and his crew to the empty bedrooms downstairs, that’ll free up both of the extra A-frames plus the guest room.”
    “No.” It was out of Finn’s mouth before Liam even finished talking, and then he had to scramble to come up with a good reason. “Downstairs is for family only.”
    “I’m down there,” Jess said, as though it was some kind of surprise to him. As though he hadn’t spent the last couple of weeks trying to avoid the hallway when she was wandering around in her pajamas.
    That same damn hallway that had started to taunt him every night, daring him to leave his room and go down to hers. To open her door and—
    No
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    “The A-frames are supposed to be for employees, not guests.” He knew he sounded stupid, but he couldn’t seem to stop himself.
    “Yeah,” Liam scoffed. “Except Kate and Olivia are the only ones using them, so we have two perfectly good buildings sitting empty. We haven’t needed extra rooms so far, but why not put them to use if we can, make a little more money?”
    “Liam has no need of his room downstairs,” Kate said, grinning up at him. “And with Ro gone, that frees up his room, too. We can easily put Sam and his two crew members down there. Those rooms are plenty big enough.”
    “Or…” Finn’s brain finally latched on to something. “You and Liam could move into his room downstairs, and Olivia could move into Ro’s, and then—”
    “No.” Kate and Olivia, in stereo.
    “What?” He gaped. “Why not?”
    “Because.” Kate blinked away from him, then lifted her chin and laughed. “I prefer having more than just a couple sheets of drywall between your bedroom and ours, if you don’t mind.”
    “Damn right,” Liam muttered.
    “It’s a couple of