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wrap me in bubble wrap and put me in a closet for seven months?  I knew I shouldn’t have told you I was pregnant until I was ready to deliver.”
    Dave frowned darkly, but tempered his tone.  “Because of your age, the doctor said you were high risk and I don’t want you taking chances, sweetheart.”
    Susan nodded and stepped back to swipe an X between her breasts.  “It will kill me, but I’ll be a good girl and sit in the lobby, I promise.”
    “Just drop her off and she can call me to pick her up when she’s finished,” he suggested, glaring at Cee Cee.
    “Stop trying to manage me, Logan,” Susan warned, her jaw tight.  “You know that only makes me more determined to do exactly what I shouldn’t be doing.”
    These two were talking about her like she wasn’t even standing there and Cee Cee didn’t need them to take her to the range.  She could’ve already run to her apartment and picked up her truck by now.  She grabbed her pistol case off of the desk and pushed her way between them. 
    “I can just run home and get my truck,” she said.  
    “ No !” Susan shouted and Cee Cee stopped because the woman’s voice held that kind of command.  She walked up beside Cee Cee to hook her arm through hers.  “ We are going to the range.  I’m not about to set a precedent at this early stage by allowing my overprotective husband to boss me around because I’m incubating his progeny.  Slade won’t let Taylor out of the bedroom, so she can’t go with us, but we are going and that’s that.”
    Dave harrumphed and Cee Cee smiled as they walked to the front door.  Take that brother , she thought, as she opened the door.  Hopefully, your offspring will give you just as much hell as your wife, because you deserve every damned minute of it.
    An hour and a half later, after firing three clips of practice rounds, Cee Cee pushed her shooting glasses up on her nose then ejected the clip to reload.  She glanced at the target on the wire and was pleased to see the center mass circle had almost disappeared.  One more clip and she’d replace the target and start over again.  This target had been for her brother and his controlling ways, his lack of confidence in her abilities.  The next would be reserved for Cade Winters and her frustration at having to both put up with seeing him, and having to avoid him.
    There was something to be said for the therapeutic value of focused range practice.  Cee Cee was feeling better than she had in the last two months.  She hated to admit it, because she really loved her sister-in-law and was thankful to her for making it possible for her to come here, but she was also grateful that she was alone in the range.
    Other than peeking in a few times, Susan had kept her word to Dave.  Cee Cee had been in the middle of a clip both times and felt kind of guilty for ignoring her.  She had to be bored out there, so when the door opened this time, she stepped back out of the booth with a smile, but the corners of her mouth slammed down when it wasn’t Susan standing there. 
    As if her thoughts had summoned him, it was Cade Winters’ broad shoulders that filled the doorway, his icy blue eyes that met hers.

 
    CHAPTER TWO
     
    You’re just like your father .  Don’t kid yourself into thinking you’re any better, Cade Winters . 
    Why did those words that this woman had angrily tossed at him the last time he’d seen her six years ago still burn so badly inside him?  Every time he looked at her now they speared through his mind. 
    Because you’re pissed at yourself for ever being so young and stupid.  For trusting her with your deepest darkest secrets like a fool.  For giving her the fifty cal slug she put right into your chest when she needed ammunition to hurt you. 
    Well, that wound was long ago healed but remembering the words now sure as hell reminded him of what kind of woman she was and how stupid he’d been for trusting her or anyone with that