Lynda woke Christmas morning both eager and at the same time, dreading the day. She was eager to have Dylan open her gift. To see his reaction, but she was dreading having to deal with her brothers, to introduce them to Dylan and find out how they would react and treat him. She didn"t have high hopes that they would be nice or welcoming to him. It wasn"t that she had a low opinion of her brothers, but that they had done exactly what she"d feared in the past. They’d been not just unwelcoming, but openly antagonistic toward any man she"d ever brought home before, from high school forward. She"d stopped bringing anyone home long ago, because she hated seeing the way they were treated. Still, she had to now. There was no way the firm would ever believe this was a real marriage unless her fam

