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“I’ll be good now,” she said. “Anyone want one?”
Both he and West shook their heads.
“Tell us what you know about her,” West said.
He filled them in on what he knew. It was more than he realized even if there were times he thought she might be hiding things.
“She has no relationship with her mother and doesn’t know who her father is. She’s close with her sister Quinn who is married to a plastic surgeon and he’s from the area.”
“Did you look into her and see if her story is true?” West asked.
“Did you do that with Abby?”
“No,” West said. “I knew she was telling me the truth.”
“And I know Lilian is too.”
Had he looked up Max Hamilton? Sure, he had. That was easy enough to do and see he had a practice in Lake Placid and prior to that worked at his father’s practice in the area.
Max had a wife named Quinn and he’d seen pictures of them and saw the strong resemblance between the sisters. That was enough for him.
Not to mention Lilian had talked about Max’s sister, Riley, who was a dentist in the area and married to the Chief of Police. There were too many things that fit well together and came out in side conversations with no evil plan.
“When can we meet her?” Laken asked. “We met Abby early on.”
“You did,” he said. “I planned on telling you guys soon. I just wanted to warm her up to it. Like Abby, she’s a little skittish about our background. I’ve tried to tell her it’s not much different than hers.”
“It’s always easy to say that,” West said. “But they see what is in the present and not the past.”
“I’m learning that,” he said.
He’d wanted to see her place a few times and she’d brushed it off and they ended up at his. Only twice. The first night they’d had together and then this past weekend.
During the week they tried to have lunch or dinner at least once, but the rest were calls or texts.
It’s not what he thought he’d have when he found someone he wanted to get to know better.
Maybe part of it was because no one in his family knew and he wasn’t sure how to break the news. Now that they knew, he wouldn’t feel as if he was sneaking so much when he never wanted to do that to begin with.
Now he could just say he was going to see Lilian and no one would think anything of it.
At least no one whose opinion he cared about.
“When are you going to tell Mom?” Laken asked.
“It’s not like she is going to find out unless one of us in this room tells her,” he said.
“True,” West said. “But if we meet her soon, there is no reason not to tell Mom.”
“Or there is,” Laken said. “Because then she’ll get on the rest of our cases to find someone.”
“He’s been dating her one month,” West said. “We’ve all done that and not told Mom.”
“But he’s willing to let us meet her,” Laken said. “And he doesn’t normally do that so I’m going to guess it could be more? I mean how do you explain the broken engagement?”
He scowled at Laken. She was back to busting their asses now. “I’ll deal with that part of things. No one questions us and you know it. People have seen us together enough in this building. I’ve told her she doesn’t have to explain herself to anyone.”
“What does she do?” Laken asked. “For work?”
