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carry anything so heavy. She rolled her eyes and almost let out an unladylike snort at the thought. Didn’t matter that she lifted more weight than that at the gym. When the three of them worked out together, Mark and Tony always pushed her to lift more weight and do more reps. But they’d die before they let her carry a bag while they were around.
    As they walked to the double front door, the sun thawed Albuquerque’s wintery weather from her bones. She couldn’t wait to get out of her jeans and clogs and into some shorts and bare feet.
    Tony opened the door and held it for her to enter.
    “Hey,” she called. “We’re here.”
    She sought the view out the huge, open sliding doors directly across the room from the entrance. Blue, blue ocean and blue sky with a few wispy white clouds. On the lanai in front of the view, Jake, Nikki and Meredith reclined in lounge chairs. Jake and Nikki were reading. Meredith was lying on her stomach, her bikini top untied.
    “We’re out here,” Jake hollered as he closed his book. He swung his long legs to the side of the lounge chair then stood and stretched his arms above his head. After tossing the book on a nearby table, he headed toward them. Nikki followed, smiling broadly, taking two steps for every one of Jake’s. Then Hailey noticed another blond head in the kitchen off to the left.
    Nikki and Meredith’s brother? What was he doing here?
    Before she had time to ask, her brother wrapped her in a bear hug. He released her to shake hands and do the one-armed man hug with Mark and Tony. Tony Adamo, Mark Allen and Jake Anderson. The three men had been friends since sixth grade, when they were all in the same homeroom.
    Nikki replaced Jake, hugging her tightly. “I’m so glad you’re here. Your brother is driving me crazy.”
    “Why? What’s wrong?” Hailey asked.
    “Nothing. That’s just it. I’m pregnant, not sick. The morning sickness is over. I’m feeling great. You’d think he’d be relieved that I’m not losing my breakfast every morning and dinner every night, but he’s still hovering.”
    Hailey laughed at her brother’s overprotectiveness, glad it was directed at Nikki instead of her. A high-pitched squeal interrupted her as Meredith bounced into the room. Although petite and blond like her sister, their personalities couldn’t have been more different. Where Nikki was calm and down-to-earth, Meredith oozed perkiness and frivolity from every pore of her body. The typical ditzy, blonde party girl. Hailey ground her molars as Meredith threw herself into a full bikini-clad, body-contact hug with Mark then repeated it with Tony. When she lingered a little longer with the good doctor, Hailey took a deep breath and counted to ten. Before she got to three, the blond head Hailey had seen in the kitchen appeared next to Nikki.
    “Hi, Hailey. It’s been a while.”
    It didn’t matter how long it had been. Landon wasn’t the kind of man a woman forgot. Where Nikki and Meredith were petite, their brother was tall—taller than Mark and Tony—and even more muscular than her two favorite men. He had his sisters’ blond hair and blue eyes, but he looked like some kind of Viking hero straight off the cover of a romance novel, complete with the shoulder-length hair—more like a Sven or Olaf than a Landon. Tough and sexy. The kind of bad-boy tough that drew women. One ear was pierced with a small silver hoop. His appearance seemed completely at odds with his profession. He looked like he should be maiming and pillaging—not trying to save lives with his cancer research.
    Hailey extended her hand. “It’s good to see you again. How have you been?”
    He took her hand firmly in his. “I hope you don’t mind me crashing the party.”
    Nikki spoke over the clamor of greetings. “Landon decided at the last minute to join us, so I thought you and Meredith could share the cottage. Then the boys can each have a room to themselves. Is that okay with you,