Leonard I decided not to stay in Vegas and drove home instead. No matter how loudly I play my music for distraction, my mind swirls around Evangeline. The sweet little smile she wears when one of her silly pop songs comes on the radio. The cranky frown she wears before she’s had her coffee in the morning. The “old man” quips she makes to tease both me and Carter. The way she flushes pink when we tease her back. And yet she doesn’t want to f**k around with us anymore? Oh, I can tell she wants to. She just isn’t letting herself. And I don’t want to allow it, either, not if we can’t talk to Mark about it. Like I told her, we’re in this or we aren’t. There can’t be an in-between. I refuse to betray my brother. And yet my d**k is hard every time I think about my step-niece. Something has

