Colin watched Elizabeth leave the room, and his foggy brain tried to piece together the conversation. Something had shifted between them. She’d told him something she hadn’t wanted him to know. He wondered why she’d decided to tell him now.
He understood being in competition with a sibling, and he definitely knew what it was like to have to prove himself. He just couldn’t reconcile the accomplished woman he knew with the woman he now saw as afraid of failing. No wonder she had stomach ulcers.
She really was all alone.
No matter how much he butted heads with Ryan, they would always be there for each other. Their dad had instilled that in them. He had never wanted his sons in competition. He certainly wouldn’t have set them up to compete. Patrick O’Leary had wanted a team. Colin’s own ign
