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amber contents in the light. More than half-full. Amazing. “I thought you’d have made a bigger dent in this.”
    Alex squinted at the glass in his hand as if he’d forgotten its existence. Rafe winked and held his out for a refill. Broad back to the room, hands shoved deep into the pockets of his black dress trousers, Tomas acknowledged neither the whisky nor her arrival.
    And no one so much as glanced at the sandwiches. They didn’t want sustenance. They wanted her to leave so they could continue their discussion.
    Tough.
    She slid her backside further onto the desk, took her time selecting a corn beef and pickle triangle, then arched a brow at the room in general. “So, what’s this about a baby?”
    Tomas’s shoulders tensed. Alex and Rafe exchanged a look.
    “It’s no use pretending nothing’s going on,” she said around her first bite. “I overheard you talking.”
    For a long moment she thought they’d pull the old boys’ club number, buttoning up in front of the girl. Except this girl had spent her whole childhood tearing around Kameruka Downs in the dust of these three males and her twobrothers. Sadly outnumbered, she’d learned to chase hard and to never give up. She glanced sideways at Tomas’s back. At least not until she was completely beaten.
    “Well?” she prompted.
    Rafe, bless his heart, relented. “What do you think, Ange? Would you—”
    “This is supposed to be private,” Alex said pointedly.
    “You don’t think Ange’s opinion is valuable? She’s a woman.”
    “Thank you for noticing,” Angie murmured. From the corner of her eye she watched Tomas who had never noticed, while she fought two equally strong, conflicting urges. One part of her ached to slide off the desk and wrap him and his tightly held pain in a big old-fashioned hug. The other wanted to slug him one for ignoring her.
    “Would you have somebody’s baby…for money?”
    What? Her attention swung from the still and silent figure by the window and back to Rafe. She swallowed. “Somebody’s?”
    “Yeah.” Rafe cocked a brow. “Take our little brother, the hermit, for example. He says he’d pay and since that’s—”
    “Enough,” Alex cut in.
    Unnecessarily, as it happened, because a second later—so quick, Angie didn’t see it coming—Tomas held Rafe by the shirtfront. The two harsh flat syllables he uttered would never have emanated from any prince’s mouth.
    Alex separated them, but Tomas only stayed long enough for a final curt directive to his brothers. “You do this your way, I’ll do it mine. I don’t need your approval.”
    He didn’t slam the door on his way out, and it occurred to Angie that that would have shown too much passion, too much heat, for the cold, remote stranger the youngest Carlisle had become.
    “I guess my opinion is beside the point now,” she said carefully.
    Rafe coughed out a laugh. “Only if you think Mr. Congeniality can find himself a woman.”
    Angie’s heart thumped against her ribs. Oh, he could. She had no doubts about that. Tomas Carlisle might have forgotten how to smile, but he could take his big, hard body and I’ve-been-hurt-bad attitude into any bar and choose from the top shelf. Without any mention of the Carlisle billions.
    A chill shivered through her skin as she put down the remains of her sandwich. “He won’t do anything stupid, will he?”
    “Not if we stop him.”
    Alex shook his head. “Leave him be, Rafe.”
    “Do you really think he’s in any mood to make a discriminating choice?” Rafe made an impatient sound, not quite a laugh, not quite a snort. “What the hell was Dad thinking anyway? He should have left Tomas right out of this!”
    “Maybe he wanted to give him a shake-up,” Alex said slowly.
    “The kind that sends him out looking to cut a deal with the first bar-bunny he happens upon?”
    Angie stood so swiftly, her head spun. Whoa. Breathing deeply, she leaned against the desk. It was okay. Kameruka Downs was two hours of

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