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his home. “And why aren’t you at the basketball game with Mercury and Gannon?”
    â€œI had better things to do.”
    Eli rolled his eyes. “In other words, your team didn’t make it to the finals. Everyone knows what a sore loser you are.”
    Tyson frowned. “I’m not a sore loser.” He then glanced around. “Where’s Stacey?”
    His once die-hard bachelor brother had defected and married, just like his brothers Galen and Jonas. The only thing redeeming about that was he’d married Stacey Carlson. She was the sister of a good friend and former colleague of Tyson’s by the name of Cohen.
    â€œStacey’s in bed, where most people with good sense are by now,” Eli said, dropping down on the sofa. “I hear Brittany and the babies might be going home tomorrow.”
    Tyson nodded. “So I heard.”
    â€œWord also has it that Mom has volunteered to help out for a few days. I hope she doesn’t get on Galen’s nerves.”
    Tyson chuckled. “I doubt that she will. He’s been in her good graces ever since he was the first to get married. Besides, helping out with the babies will keep her busy.”
    â€œAnd the busier she is the less chance she has to get into your business—and Mercury’s and Gannon’s—right?”
    â€œRight,” Tyson said, knowing Eli understood. Before he married, he’d gotten the Eden Tyson Steele’s “sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong” treatment,just like the rest of them. Now, with three sons married, she was relentless on the other three, prodding them along to get them to the altar. Tyson vowed it wouldn’t work on him. “So who do you think the babies look like?”
    Eli chuckled. “With those green eyes, forehead and lips, they favor Galen all the way. I haven’t heard their decisions on names, have you?”
    â€œNope, but rumor has it they’re allowing Mom to do the honors.”
    Eli shook his head. “No wonder she’s blowing up the newspapers. She’s up there on cloud nine.”
    â€œFine. She can stay there for a while,” Tyson said. “Just as long as she’s not into my business while she’s up there.”
    â€œYou and Mercury and Gannon will get a slight reprieve, but don’t think she’ll let you guys off the hook for good.” Eli didn’t say anything for a minute as he stared across the room at his brother and then he said, “Okay, get it out. There’s a reason you dropped by so late.”
    Tyson sat down in the wingback chair across from the sofa. “There is. Hunter McKay’s back in town.”
    Eli’s forehead bunched. “Who’s Hunter McKay?”
    Tyson rolled his eyes. “I can’t believe you don’t remember Hunter. But I shouldn’t be surprised. Back in the day, the old Eli remembered bodies and not names.”
    A smile curved Eli’s lips. “True. So was she one of those bodies?”
    â€œHell, no! She was my girl.”
    â€œYou never had a girl, Tyson.”
    His brother was right and for the life of him Tyson wasn’t sure why he’d said what he had just now. “Sorry, saying that was a huge mistake.”
    â€œI hope there’s not a reason why you made it. And lower your voice or you’ll wake up my wife and she needs her rest.”
    Tyson didn’t need to ask why. It seemed that all his married brothers had wedded women they enjoyed spending time with in and out of the bedroom. “There’s not a reason.”
    Eli stared at him for a long moment and then asked, “So what’s the big deal about this Hunter McKay being back in town?”
    â€œIt just is.”
    â€œHey, wait a minute,” Eli said, sitting straight up on the sofa. “That name is coming back to me. Isn’t Hunter McKay the girl who dumped you in your senior year of high school?”
    â€œShe