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at Peter.
    “What? I’ve got to show him I missed him, don’t I?” Peter
asked with an innocent shrug.
    “I’m so happy you’re all here. Peter, what was Mac like as a
boy?”
    “Well, Callie…”
    “Don’t believe a word he says. He was jealous of me,” Mac
said.
    “Jealous? Of what? A nerdy guy who couldn’t talk to girls?”
    “I didn’t waste my time talking to girls.” Mac sat back, taking a sip of wine.
    “Like you were some big make-out artist or something?” Peter
made a face at his brother.
    “I did all right.”
    “You did? At what age did you do all right with girls?”
Callie asked.
    Mac blushed and clammed up. Peter laughed.
    “His first girlfriend was Jenny Simmons. He was fifteen,”
Peter volunteered.
    “What happened between you and Jenny?” Callie raised an
eyebrow.
    “Pete, keep quiet. You don’t know Callie, she’s like a
private detective and prosecuting attorney rolled into one. You give her a
little bit of information and she’ll dig out your entire sexual history.”
    “She can’t with me. It’d take a hundred years,” Peter said,
laughing.
    Mac laughed too. “If Callie wants to know something about
you, she won’t stop until she has it…and then some.”
    “You make me sound like a bloodhound,” Callie said.
    “Well, babe, sometimes the resemblance is uncanny,” Mac said,
laughing.
    “Looks like you’re not going to need any handkerchiefs in the
bedroom tonight, Mac,” Peter snickered.
    Mac got up and punched Peter playfully in the arm. Peter
grabbed him in a headlock and the men started to wrestle.
    “Mac! Peter! Cut it out!” Sam yelled.
    Callie got busy pulling lamps and tables out of their way as
the two tall men rolled around on the floor.
    “Boys! Stop!” Sam yelled and got up. He pulled at Mac, then
Peter. Finally they separated, breathing heavily and looking at each other. Mac
was rubbing an elbow and Peter was stroking his temple. In a minute they both
burst out laughing.
    “After all these years, it’s still a draw,” Sam said, shaking
his head.
    Peter went over to Mac and gave him a bear hug.
    Mac smiled at him and ruffled his hair. “Welcome home, shrimp.”
    “Shrimp? He’s taller than you are, Mac,” Callie said.
    “Now he is, but he wasn’t always. It took him years to catch
up,” Mac said.
    “These two were a handful, Callie.” Sam laughed. “I guess
they still are.”
    “I can handle them,” she said, smiling.
    Saturday became a busy day at the lake with fishing and not
catching anything, looking for bear tracks, coloring, reading and swimming with
Jason and Kitty. Peter fit right in, playing with the children and helping cart
food in and out of the kitchen. The children charmed him and kept him laughing,
much to Callie’s delight.
    Callie worried the physical affection she shared with Mac
might make Peter feel left out or jealous, but he smiled when he caught them
exchanging a quick kiss or loving embrace.
     
    * * * *
     
    “Can’t get enough, huh? Don’t you ever pass her without
touching her?” Peter asked his brother.
    “If you had a woman like her, would you?” Mac piled plates
together.
    “Guess not. You’re lucky.” Peter picked up the salad bowl.
    “Damn right.” Mac carted the plates into the kitchen.
    “Didn’t know you were such a touchy-feely kind of guy, Mac.
Always thought of you as…stoic, I guess,” Peter said, popping open two beers in
the kitchen and handing one to Mac.
    “It’s Callie. Just can’t keep my hands off her.”
    “I can see why,” Peter replied with a chuckle.
    “Watch it, Pete,” Mac warned, raising his palm to his brother.
    Peter put up both hands in a gesture of surrender. “Joking
here…your first marriage wasn’t like that?”
    “Got that right. Callie is different. Never met a woman like
her.” Mac turned to look at his brother as he took a healthy swig of his beer.
    “Wish I could have her cloned,” Peter joked.
    “I hope you find someone like her too,