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Seth chuckled, the rich sound sliding down her spine. “You went swimming.”
“Swimming is fun. You can pretend you’re a mermaid.”
Seth blinked. “You pretend to be a mermaid?”
“Sometimes.” Granted, those times were usually with Del’s oldest daughter, but it was fun even if she was by herself.
“Seth’s life is about to get much more hectic—at least his personal life.”
She glanced at Rami, then back to Seth. Damn, she didn’t want to date him, but now that it sounded like he was off the market, the food in her stomach turned over. “You getting serious, SEAL?”
“Naw, my parents just retired and are moving here.”
“Oh. My dad, too. He’s just retired, and since Ian and I are here, and England is dreary compared to being in Hawaii, he decided to come here.”
“Sam’s not married?”
She shook her head. “Widowed. I never met her.”
“How did he end up adopting you?”
“He and my mother knew each other in college. Sam came to the States for college.”
And if her mother had never broken up with Sam, sent him away, and never met Joseph, Autumn’s life would have been so different. Would she have ever met the SEAL?
“Ah, and you had no family?” He shook his head. “Sorry. I’m being intrusive.”
She laughed in his face. “Don’t worry, SEAL. I don’t mind answering questions from fellow team members.”
“Not the same team.”
“No, but we’re all on the same task force. I’ll dig into your past and hope to get all the dirty deets from your mother.”
He rolled his eyes. “There’s a good chance she’ll spill them.”
“Good. Now, for me, no. I had no other family members. My mother was an only child to two people who were also only children. I had a few distant great aunts or something, but they were in their nineties.” All she had been left with was a trust fund.
“So, Sam stepped up,” Rami said.
“More than that. Sam’s the one my mother called to get me out of there.”
“Hmm, interesting.”
“I guess.” She shrugged. “He took me to England. Helped that he had connections.”
“Connections?” Rami asked. She turned and looked at the former SEAL. Why couldn’t she be interested in him? He would be so easy to mess with. No strings, easygoing.
“Ian is the fourth-generation spy. They have a whole family thing going on.”
“Oh, that makes sense then. He could get you fake papers if need be.”
“And a birth certificate if need be.”
“What?” Seth asked.
“Nothing. None of it mattered because Sam had set off some fireworks by spiriting me away, which forced the FBI’s hand. It caused them to move up the timing of their raid. After that FUBAR, they helped Sam get me situated.”
“And you lived in England?”
