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accomplish today and why it was important to stay clean.
    There’d been no sense in worrying their folks or anyone else over Oliver landing in rehab after nearly blowing a project for a top client. There was definitely no reason for it to be a topic of conversation now with Brad or Dru or anyone else.
    “Evidently,” Oliver said to his brother, “sisters aren’t the only ones who talk.”
    “It’s barely been a year and a half, man.” Travis plunked his smartphone down, display up. “I thought maybe Dru would see you more. I asked her to let me know if she noticed anything we should be worried about, assuming you stayed in town for a while. Now that you are, there’s a solid local meeting I can hook you up with if you need one. I know a couple of guys who go, good men. Friends who’d keep an eye out for you.”
    Brad and Travis calmly waited for Oliver to respond, as if they were talking about where he should gas up his truck.
    The Three Musketeers.
    Together again.
    “Who else knows?” Oliver asked.
    “No one.” His brother shook his head. “But I don’t see the point in keeping it a secret. No one’s going to judge you. But if keeping quiet about the fact that you’ve finally laid your demons to rest is what you want, I’ve got no problem with it. As long as being back doesn’t mess with your sobriety.”
    Oliver thought of his dad upstairs, Marsha’s reaction to Kask just now, Selena running from facing all of them, his reaction to seeing her . . . There seemed to be demons everywhere he looked. He shifted gears, glaring at Brad.
    “Hey,” Brad said, “I’m not talking.”
    “Except to my sister.”
    “She told me.”
    “Because,” Travis said to Oliver, “she’s worried about your ass.”
    “We all are,” Brad added. “This would be a lot for me to take in all at once.”
    “This?” Oliver asked. “What the hell do either of you know about it?”
    “We know family hasn’t been an easy thing for you to be close to for a long time,” his brother said. “So go to a meeting, man, if that’s what you need to do.”
    “I need . . .” Oliver wished to hell he knew. He pushed out of his chair. “I need to get back upstairs and hear what the doctor’s saying to Joe.”
    “So you can barge in on our parents looking half-crazed?” Travis asked.
    Brad eased deeper in his chair. “You’re not going to dump your problems on your parents. Sit back down and get yourself together.”
    Oliver sat, his brother and former friend’s support an unwanted comfort. And as unsettling as watching Selena bolt as if loving Oliver was the worst mistake of her life.
    “Thanks.” He exhaled a razor-sharp breath.
    Brad nodded. “The doctor’s talking with your parents?”
    “Surgery.” Travis grabbed Brad’s coffee. He shot it back and grimaced like it was two fingers of bourbon. “We don’t know what type or when. All Kask said was soon.”

Chapter Six

    “How can I help you today?” Ginger Reid Jenkins asked Selena. Her attention dropped to Camille, whom she flashed an indulgent smile. “Aren’t you just the cutest thing? And the spitting image of your mama when she wasn’t much older.”
    “Except my eyes are lighter.” Camille preened. “I get new shoes, ’cause my feet are getting too big for my old ones, and Grammy says I need good ones, and I should get them here, ’cause yours won’t wear out as fast as the ones from Walmart.”
    “Sometimes it’s better,” Ginger agreed, “to spend just a little more for something you want to last.”
    She gave Selena a wink. The more than causal interest lighting Ginger’s eyes hinted that the rumors about Selena’s current financial straits had made the rounds to her old classmate.
    “We’ve got some real nice things on sale,” Ginger said to Camille, “that I think your mommy and grammy will love. We’re making room for the summer trends. A pretty good selection of sizes, too.” She pointed to the back corner of the Neat