Mac coughed behind his hand, whether he stifled a real cough or tried to hide a skeptical smile Afton couldn't fathom at the moment. "Ah, I see. So, you're intimately acquainted with the subject matter. Still, the book isn't quite what we expected. Sorry, gentlemen-" He threw a quick glance at Afton, "-and lady."
"I have nothing to do with it," she confessed with a politely benign expression.
"Oh, I think you do, sis," Dev charged with a frown. "I think you have a lot to do with the matter at hand."
"Of course," Rob added, "you're free to go to another publisher if you like."
"I don't think that would do us any good, would it, Afton?" Devlin's stare had turned from dark and dusky to a crystal clear realization. He finally figured that she not only magically squashed the book wit
