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    “Ow. Cut it out. We’re in public.”
    Cam just grinned and shoved him in the shoulder to keep him moving. When Eleanor stopped at a booth, Sel was quick to slide in next to her. Cam glared at him until the waitress showed up, but Eleanor didn’t know why. Though their juvenile display amused her, she couldn’t shake her unease at being in such a place. She had spent a lot of time in a diner when she was younger. Back when she had nowhere else to go. A shiver snaked up her spine as she shoved the memories away.
    “Hey, you cold?” Cam asked.
    Sel threw his arm over her shoulders, and Cam growled. With a forced laugh, she shrugged Sel’s arm off. “No, I’m fine. Goose walked over my grave, I guess.”
    “That’s got to be one of the weirdest sayings,” Sel muttered.
    That brought a true smile to her face. She concentrated on the menu and the handsome men sitting with her rather than thinking about the past. Cam had promised to keep her safe. She just had to have faith in his ability to do so.
    Although they talked about the weather and other inconsequential things after placing their orders, Eleanor really wanted to know what the hell was going on. All her efforts to steer the conversation to the odd events of the day before had been thwarted by both men while in the map room and in the car. She seriously doubted she’d have any more luck in a public setting, but decided to try anyway.
    “So, Cam, we never talked about the threat your brothers received that had you running to my rescue.”
    Sel choked out a laugh, spilling his coffee on the table. “Shit.”
    Cam just sighed and threw a napkin at him. “I can’t tell you everything yet, because it involves Asta’s father. He’s a really bad character, who’s threatened her before. Now his threats have spilled over to us.”
    She frowned in thought. She’d met Asta but never really had a full conversation with her before and certainly not about her family. “Um, okay.”
    “When we pulled onto your street I saw someone walking up to the front door, so I used your neighbor’s yard to get to your back door. Then you spilled hot tea on yourself, and I just ran inside without thinking.”
    Sel frowned. “You burned yourself with tea?”
    “I’m fine now. It wasn’t that bad.”
    Both men looked at her chest as if they could see through her shirt. Warmth filled her cheeks at their scrutiny, and she crossed her arms. “So anyway, you didn’t explain exactly what happened with that guy. The one who disappeared. Or did he blow up again?”
    At any other time, their matching blank faces might have been funny, but before she could push for an answer the waitress arrived with their food. The conversation halted as they ate, and as soon as they were done Cam insisted they get to the store. It was little more than a convenience store/gas station, but it also had a meat market. Sel walked away from them while she and Cam each grabbed a hand basket and walked through the store filling them up. Unfortunately, the place was too small for a push cart.
    “Finished?” he asked her after a few minutes.
    She was looking over the disappointing selection of vegetables and grabbed a little of everything offered before sighing. “Yes.”
    He took her basket and carried both to the register. The old man at the counter looked them over, his eyes widening at the amount of food they were buying. But he said nothing as he rang it up and bagged it. Cam handed over a credit card without batting an eyelash, even as Eleanor cringed.
    “Maybe I shouldn’t have grabbed so much pasta. Or all those spices.”
    He frowned at her. “Don’t worry about it. The kitchen’s practically empty. It’ll get used.”
    She doubted it, if she was only going to be in his house for a couple of days, but said nothing else. They carried the bags to the truck, and he opened the back to reveal a couple of ice chests. Sel appeared with a bag of ice. The men set to organizing the groceries