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present, but she was just in
time to catch one heading out the door with bacon and eggs rolled
into a piece of toast in one hand.
    She lifted her brows questioningly at Basil as
she headed to the small table to join him. “Where is
everybody?”
    He dug into his plate of bacon and eggs.
“Damien just went out to check the perimeter. Lucien and Kane are
at the lookout watching to make sure we weren’t
followed.”
    Laurie frowned. “I thought that was why you
and Kane took another car and followed behind us?”
    He nodded. “Nobody followed us out of town,
but this is the age of electronic gadgets. We didn’t get the chance
to make a full sweep. Even if we had we could still have missed
something. So we’ll keep a close watch to make sure nobody managed
to plant a tracking device.”
    Laurie nodded, feeling her appetite vanish
abruptly. The little bit of bacon and eggs she managed to eat after
that hit her stomach like rocks and made her feel vaguely
queasy.
    Basil reached across the table and squeezed
her hand reassuringly. “Hey! Don’t look like that. Nobody is going
to get past us.”
    Laurie smiled with an effort, trying not to
think about the possibility that somebody would even though she
knew if they were determined enough they were liable to no matter
how well the guys thought they were watching her. There were guns
that could shoot for miles and crack shots that could hit their
target at those distances. They could blow her head off without
getting anywhere near her.
    When she’d eaten all she thought she could
manage without throwing up, she pushed the plate back. “That was
good.”
    Basil eyed the half eaten bacon and eggs a
little skeptically. “I thought you were starving?”
    Laurie laughed. “I was. On my best day I can’t
eat a half a pound of bacon and a half a dozen eggs!”
    He looked her over. “No? I guess I
overestimated you—maybe a little.”
    Laurie studied him and finally shook her head.
“This is going to sound weird, I know, but did you ever meet
someone and feel like you’d met them before?”
    He looked startled for a split second but
shrugged. “Lately? Yeah.”

Chapter Seven
    Lucien supposed the clash between him
and Damien was inevitable, but he’d expected Damien to show more
sense than to start shit when the risks to Laurie were so
high.
    “ What was that all about
in the room with Laurie while ago?” Damien growled as soon as he
spotted Lucien.
    Lucien was bone tired from being on
watch for hours and not in the mood to put up with an interrogation
from his younger brother. “Let’s try ‘none of your fucking
business, little brother’,” he growled, moving to pass.
    Damien punched him on the
shoulder. “Don’t start that little brother shit! You weren’t more
than ten minutes ahead of me, big brother, and you didn’t answer my
question.”
    Lucien paused, glaring at him. “Just
when did you get to thinking I was supposed to answer to you,
little brother?” he snarled warningly.
    “ You guys going to keep
Laurie up all night fighting over her like two dogs quarreling over
a bone? She’s a client, you know—and nobody’s property.”
    Damien and Lucien turned to glare at
Basil, who was propped against one of the posts on the porch of the
cabin.
    “ Stay out of this,” Damien
growled. “I want to know what he was doing cuddling her … like he’s
claimed her or something.”
    “ Well want with one hand
and shit in the other and see which fills up faster,” Lucien
growled.
    Damien punched him. Lucien saw it
coming but dodged too late to miss it. He was a lot quicker
retaliating, punching Damien twice and then dancing out of the way
when Damien swung at him again.
    “ I’m beginning to think
all your theorizing was just a bunch of bullshit,” Damien growled.
“Didn’t look to me like you were too worried about a collision
between matter and anti-matter when you were wallowing all over
Laurie.”
    Lucien glared at him. “And obviously
neither were