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been renewed.
    She had six months to complete When It’s Magic and When It’s Fate , the last two books in her When It’s Love series.
    The rest of the day was going to be spent meeting with executives who wanted to option her series—which, if she’d read the offers correctly, would be a nice payout. The kind of money that would give her and Drew a cushion.
    A cushion they’d never had before. A cushion that would mean she could go to sleep every night with the knowledge that they’d be okay; something she hadn’t been able to do since she’d opened the door to see two military personnel in full dress standing on her porch.
    And that was only what was happening with her. In California, her son was happy and spending time with the only other person in the world who had known Andrew as well as Emma had. Andrew and Logan had bonded during boot camp. She didn’t know if it was because Logan had never been away from his twin brother and Andrew had never had a brother or what, but the fact was, they might not have been blood, but they’d been brothers.
    She was confident Logan could answer whatever questions Drew had about his dad. She’d tried, but somehow, she’d fallen short in that department. Every time she answered one of her son’s many questions, he would shuffle his feet, bite his inner lip, or frown, looking disappointed. Like her response wasn’t exactly what he’d wanted to hear. She didn’t understand it, and she’d tried to get him to see a therapist a year ago, but that had gone over about as well as one would expect trying to convince a nine-year-old to talk about his feelings would go.
    When Drew first started his campaign to go to Camp Pine a couple of weeks ago, she hadn’t questioned it. She’d actually been relieved to see him so excited about something, anything. Not to mention she’d been putting off this business trip for the past six months because she hadn’t wanted to leave her son. The timing couldn’t have been better—she’d thought.
    Now that she knew the whole “Camp Pine” thing had been a scheme so that her son could see Logan, she was still relieved. She was mad he’d lied, and the thought of him traveling on a bus in the middle of the night terrified her, but all of that was secondary to the fact that he was getting to know the man Andrew had considered family.
    Even though that meant she was going to be seeing the man who was definitely not like a brother to her.
    “Emma?” Caroline peeked her head out of the conference room. “Everything okay?”
    Pushing off her temporary sanity support—a.k.a. the wall—she nodded. “Yep. Everything’s great.”
    She needed to back-burner her less-than-familial feelings for Logan and concentrate on the events at hand. Her future—as well as Drew’s—depended on her being present and not distracted.
    Which might prove to be a little more difficult than it sounded. Emma had always known that Logan Dorsey was a lot of things: dependable, honest, trustworthy, strong, capable, and a man of few words. Now, she needed to add another quality to that list: extremely distracting.

Chapter 4
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    “G et whatever you want.” Logan set his menu down.
    “Seriously?” Drew asked in disbelief.
    “Seriously.”
    “Sweet!” Drew exclaimed with a huge smile.
    Logan’s lips pulled at the corners, which had been happening all day. When Drew beat a level in Halo after Logan had shown him a cheat code, in his excitement, he’d practically jumped up and down on the couch with the same enthusiasm Tom Cruise had shown for Katie Holmes. When they’d ordered a pizza for lunch and Logan had gotten a two liter of cola, Drew hadn’t been able to stop smiling even as he guzzled two glasses. And when they’d walked down to the diner and two twenty-something girls, who Logan had assumed were tourists because he hadn’t seen them around before, pulled their tank tops up and flashed them their bikini-covered chests, Drew had high-fived Logan