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kind of have to because we need him around here.”
    Pax leaned over Connor to snag a muffin. “I’m the good-looking one.”
    Connor rolled his eyes. “And so modest.”
    Ben noticed the Weeks brothers were alone when they usually had women by their sides these days. One absence was particularly notable, since she owned the house with Davis. “Where’s Lara?”
    Davis didn’t look up from his coffee. “Sleeping in.”
    “Now that we’re on the same page, we need to come up with a new solution.” Connor opened a folder as he talked.
    “That’s why he’s the boss,” Joel joked. “Jumps right to the point.”
    “So will I.” Jocelyn smiled as if she’d been waiting all night to drop this bomb. “I can stay in a hotel near the hospital.”
    Ben almost groaned. He knew she’d immediately pick a solution that made him nuts. Forget running from him—this was just dangerous. Yeah, she believed he was the target, but whoever was behind this knew her and associated her with him. That made her safety his biggest concern.
    “You can’t go to work.” Admittedly this wasn’t her field, but she had to know that fact. Seemed obvious to him. From the nods around the table, the rest of them got it.
    “I have to.”
    For a very smart woman, she was slow picking up on this point. “Absolutely not. And you can frown at me all you want. It’s not happening. It can’t.”
    He glanced around the table looking for backup, and Davis jumped in. “Not a good idea, Jocelyn.”
    “I have bills to pay.” She slid her fingers over the handle to her mug, back and forth over the smooth surface.
    He was mesmerized by her lean fingers and trim, manicured nails. He blinked to break the trance. “Don’t worry about those.”
    She made a face that suggested he needed meds. “How can I—”
    “Whoa.” Davis held up a hand “She can continue to stay at the house. Lara would like the female company. Apparently, I can be difficult.”
    “No.” All eyes turned to Pax when he gave the curt reply.
    Gone was his usual lighthearted banter. He wore a matching scowl to Davis’s expression, and tension spilled through the room as they engaged in some sort of brotherly standoff.
    Ben didn’t understand what was happening. “Something you want to share with the rest of the class?”
    Pax didn’t break eye contact with his brother. “It’s not my news.”
    “What are we talking about?” Jocelyn asked.
    Pax folded his arms over his chest. “Davis, you know I’m right. It’s not safe. You’re offering because that’s what you do, not because you think it’s a good idea.”
    Whatever was going on arced back and forth between the brothers. The rest of them sat there watching the staring contest.
    But Ben had to pipe up. “Someone took two shots at Jocelyn in one day.”
    A fact he still couldn’t process. Men at her home. Others following her around town to this house. He expected danger in his job. Even though he watched Davis and Pax get ripped apart when the women they loved stepped close to danger, Ben never thought his work would bleed into his personal life. Lately that was all it had done.
    His father blamed him, claiming after all his years of service he was suffering a backlash at the Pentagon for Ben’s choices. Powerful people sat in jail awaiting trial. And Ben had walked away from a career that had once meant everything, only to have his name stamped on the front of every paper and as the lead in every news broadcast.
    “Lara is pregnant.” Davis made the announcement with a slap of his palm against the table. “Okay, that’s the issue.”
    Everyone started talking at once. There were backslaps and congratulations. Davis took it all in, nodding and thanking everyone even as his face grew more drawn.
    “Why the secret?” Not that Ben knew much about babies, but he couldn’t imagine a better set of parents than Davis and Lara.
    “She’s not far along, and because of what happened before with the