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Carlino.”
    Leah looked around, her eyes wide, fascinated by her new surroundings. She made a cooing sound that warmed Brooke’s heart. All that mattered was that both of themwere safe and provided for at the moment. She sat down on Nick’s bed and bounced Leah on her knee. “Promise me you won’t go falling for him, baby girl,” she said, clapping their hands together and making Leah giggle. “He’s not to be trusted. Mommy did that once and it wasn’t good. Not good at all.”
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    â€œThat’s a first for you,” his brother Joe said, as he toweled off from his swim in the pool. “You’re letting a woman and her child stay at the house.”
    â€œIt’s not like I had a choice.” Nick glanced at his middle brother with disdain. “What was I supposed to do? She’s got a kid. She’s injured and has nowhere else to go. I couldn’t walk away. Her head’s not right.”
    â€œMust not be, if she moved in with you.” Joe toweled off from his swim and put his glasses back on. He was building his fiancée a house and though he lived at Ali’s condo currently, Nick had to put up with his gibes when he came over to do his hundred laps in the pool. Joe was the geek in the family and swimming was his only means of physical activity.
    â€œGood thing you know your way around a computer. You’d never make it as a comedian.”
    Joe ignored him. “Who is she?”
    â€œHer name is Brooke Hamilton. We went to high school together.”
    â€œBrooke Hamilton? That name sounds familiar.”
    Nick kept his mouth shut. Let his brother figure it out.
    â€œOh, she’s the one who worked at that Cab Café, right?”
    Bingo.
    â€œI remember her now. She was the waitress who had a big crush on you.”
    â€œAncient history.” Nick didn’t want to bring up the past.It had been the one time in his young life he’d done the right thing. The one time, he’d put someone else’s needs above his own. He’d let Brooke off the hook. Still, after all these years, when she looked at him, it was with wariness and contempt. Could it be she still held a grudge over what happened?
    â€œSo you’re the Good Samaritan now?”
    â€œSomething like that,” Nick muttered, squinting into the sun. “Like I said, she’s here temporarily. A few days at most. Just until Maynard gives her the okay to be on her own.”
    â€œYeah, speaking of that, how is it that my little brother gets in a car crash and doesn’t tell his brothers?”
    â€œI tried calling. Then I remembered you were in the Bahamas. Or were supposed to be.”
    â€œWe got back late last night. If you got our voicemail, it’s probably because we were sleeping. So, how are you?”
    Nick lifted his arms out wide. “I’m gonna live.”
    â€œAmen to that, little brother. How old’s the kid?”
    â€œLeah is five months old.”
    â€œA baby?” Joe looked at him with suspicion. “You’re not—”
    Nick shook his head. “I just laid eyes on Brooke last night. I haven’t seen her since high school. But thanks for the vote of confidence, bro.”
    â€œHey, don’t take offense,” Joe said. “But you do have a reputation with the ladies.”
    Nick couldn’t deny it. He liked women and they liked him back. They had a good time together and then Nick would let them down gently and walk away. Or they’d get fed up with not getting a commitment from him and leave on their own. He never led them on or lied to them. From the beginning, he’d always let the women in his life know what to expect from him. It had been that way since he couldremember. As a young man, he assumed he’d grow out of it when the right woman came along, but his father had taken that option away from him in his attempt to control Nick. Santo Carlino had wanted one son to