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hesitated. “No.”
    Izzy grinned. “See. Dana believes me.”
    â€œThat’s not what I said,” Dana told her.
    â€œClose enough.” Izzy smiled at her sisters. “We’ve got big-time pressure here. I want Garth in the family fold by Christmas. Then we can all celebrate together.”
    â€œI’m sorry I’m going to miss that,” Dana said, almost meaning it. Talk about an uncomfortable day.
    â€œYou won’t,” Izzy told her, grinning.
    â€œYou’re the one he tried to kill,” Skye said, speaking for the first time. “You’re totally sure he wasn’t responsible?”
    Izzy’s smile faded. She leaned forward and stared into Skye’s eyes. “I swear. I believe him. He’s not innocent in this. But he had his reasons for acting against us and he’s our brother. I know down to my soul that bringing him into the family is the only way to stop all this. To make it better.”
    â€œJed will never accept him,” Skye said.
    â€œThis isn’t about Jed, it’s about us. Jed has proven again and again that none of us matter to him. But that’s okay because we have each other. And now we have Garth.”
    Skye was quiet for a moment, then nodded slowly. “Okay.”
    Izzy jumped to her feet. “I knew you’d understand.”
    â€œMaybe she does, but I don’t,” Lexi said. “Even if I accept he didn’t try to kill you, which I don’t, bigdeal. What about everything else? He still has a lot to answer for.”
    Skye nodded. “Lexi’s right. We have to be sure. We all have to be sure this isn’t a trick. That he hasn’t come up with a new strategy. Maybe he wasn’t responsible for the explosion. Maybe that was just bad timing or something. But there are other questions that still have to be answered.”
    Dana cleared her throat. “Technically this isn’t Garth’s strategy. It’s Izzy’s. I don’t think he wants to be drawn into the family.”
    â€œWhich will make the process even more unpleasant,” Lexi murmured.
    â€œWe have to do this,” Izzy said stubbornly. “We have to save him.”
    â€œIf he’s worth saving,” Skye said. “How do we know for sure?”
    There was a moment of silence as the women looked at each other. Suddenly Izzy grinned.
    â€œPiss him off,” she announced happily. “If I’m right and there’s a nice guy just waiting to get out, he may be annoyed but he won’t act out. If he’s as horrible as you three think, he’ll show his true colors. Stress brings out a person’s real character.”
    â€œShe’s right,” Skye said slowly. “If we can get in his face, we’ll figure him out pretty quickly.”
    â€œWe need to provoke him in an obvious way,” Dana said, moving toward them, liking the idea of annoying Garth.
    Skye smiled. “What about if one of us shadows him? Two birds with one stone—either we catch him being evil to someone else or he reacts to our personal surveillance.”
    Lexi nodded. “If he’s everything Izzy claims, he’ll understand. If not, maybe he’ll get mad and show us what’s underneath that tough facade. It’s a win-win. I like it.”
    â€œI don’t,” Izzy said, “but I see the point of it. So which one of us should it be?”
    Dana thought about everything that had happened in the past few months, how scared her friends had been and about Garth’s ruthless actions. She thought about how Jed had ignored his own daughters, virtually leaving them on their own to handle a situation he’d created. She thought of how much each of the Titan sisters meant to her.
    â€œI’ll do it,” she said, looking at them. “I’ll take a leave of absence and stay on Garth full-time.”
    â€œYou can’t,” Skye said.
    â€œSure I can. I