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Marietta.”
    “Daisy and I arrived today.”
    “Daisy’s here?” she asked, excited.
    “In Marietta, yes, but I dropped her off a little bit ago at Trey and McKenna’s to play with TJ.”
    “I didn’t think you two were coming until after Thanksgiving.”
    “Daisy started Thanksgiving break today so we flew out early so I could get her enrolled in preschool here.”
    A man stepped around them, wanting to enter the open elevator. Whitney and Cormac both stepped away and the elevator doors closed.
    “You’re both staying at the hotel?” Whitney asked.
    “While Heath wraps up the remodel on my house,” Cormac said. “I don’t know if he mentioned it to you, but the house wasn’t kid friendly but Heath thinks he’ll have us in before Christmas.”
    He’d bought the house overlooking the Yellowstone River after they’d stopped dating so she’d never seen it, but April and Daryl had been there and April had said it was an incredible place with soaring log ceilings, and floor to ceiling windows along the front of the house giving stunning views of the river valley nestled between the jagged Absaroka and Gallatin mountain ranges.
    “Aren’t a couple of your brothers out that way?”
    “Brock’s spread, Copper Mountain Ranch, is there, and our family ranch, where I grew up is another ten minutes south. But we’ve leased the ranch house to a writer from New York. Trey heads that way every day to take care of the cattle, but he and McKenna live in town, just a few minutes from here.”
    It was the second time Cormac had mentioned Trey. Trey was the one brother she’d never met as he’d been in prison when she and Cormac were dating.
    “And that’s where Daisy is now? At Trey’s?”
    “Yes. I don’t think you’ve met him.”
    “No. He was…away.”
    “Four years of away, but he’s back, which is good because TJ is wild. He needs a father that knows how to handle him.”
    “And Trey can handle him?”
    “Oh yeah. TJ is a miniature Trey so it’s definitely lively at their house. I just hope TJ and Daisy will get along. McKenna has promised to keep a close eye on Daisy and said she’ll call if Daisy seems overwhelmed in any way.”
    “You’re very hands on.”
    “I have to be. She’s been through a lot.” He hesitated. “I want this move to Marietta to be good for her. I’m doing this for her. I think she needs cousins and family and all those traditions I had growing up that I took for granted.”
    It was such a surprising thing to hear him say. He’d never been overly interested in family or tradition before, and he certainly hadn’t been fond of big family get-togethers. If anything, he was the Sheenan who didn’t attend the birthdays and celebrations. “You have changed.”
    “Daisy’s influence,” he said.
    “She’s good for you. You’re not the Ice Man you used to be.”
    “Ice Man?”
    “You could be pretty chilly when you wanted to be.”
    He was silent a moment. “I suppose that’s true. I’m sure it’s true. I froze you out, didn’t I?”
    There was something so open and real in his expression that the air caught in her throat, reminding her of a time when they’d been so close. When he could do no wrong. It hurt remembering. And she couldn’t help wondering if it would always hurt, remembering. “That’s the past, right?”
    “Right,” he said grimly.
    She wagged her finger at him, determined to keep things light. “And we can’t live in the past.”
    “True.”
    “And everyone makes mistakes.”
    He was smiling faintly now. “Yes, you’re right. But that’s also why we’re back in Montana. Life is too short, not to do the right thing, and in this case, the right thing for Daisy is to be here, close to April’s parents and my family.”
    The bronze elevator doors opened behind them and a couple stepped out but neither Cormac nor Whitney paid them any attention.
    “Have you stayed in touch with April’s parents?” Whitney asked,