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the holidays with them unless they’d booked a cruise. Those times, she stayed in the city or went to Cold Spring with Tilly.
    As she was packing lenses into her bag, Tilly heard the “Whoop! Whoop!” of a police siren outside, and when someone started banging on her door and yelling, “Police! Open up!” she just about had a heart attack. She was going to kill her brother.
    Jerking her door open, she yelled, “Are you crazy?”
    With a big grin, Jeff leaned down, wrapping his arms around his big sister and picking her up, swung her around like she weighed nothing.
    “Put me down!” Tilly said through her giggles. Once down, she smacked him on the arm. “What the hell, Jeff? I’m sure half the neighborhood now thinks I’m a drug dealer or something. Awesome.”
    “Well, it might make your business pick up since they’ll wan na come in and check things out. I can even pull out the cuffs,” he said with a snort.
    She smacked him again as she laughed. “I don’t need help with my business, thank you very much. I’m doing just fine. Speaking of, I’ m shooting the parade!”
    “You always shoot the parade.”
    “Well, this year, I’ve been hired to shoot it! Think I’m about to break into the big time!”
    “That’s aweso me! I’m so proud of you.” He plopped down on her sofa. “Got anything to eat?”
    She rolled her eyes. It always went to food with Jeff. “Got some leftover Pylos in the fridge.”
    “Lamb?”
    “Yep.”
    He got up and made his way into her kitchen while she followed. “ How come you’re not having dinner with Jennifer?”
    He opened the refrigerator, bending down to scope out all she had inside. “She went upstate to be with her family over the holiday. I’m scheduled to work all week, so I told her she might as well spend time with them.” He grabbed a beer first then took out the Pylos box in Tilly’s fridge, opened it, got a silly grin on his face that made her chuckle, then turned and put it in the microwave.
    “How’s she doing with her classes?”
    “Fine. She loves her first graders and they love her right back. But what’s not to love?” He grinned again as he leaned his hip against her counter, taking a drink of his beer.
    Tilly smiled, resting her butt against the counter across from her brother. She really did love Jennifer like a sister. “That’s true. I’m glad she’s doing well.”
    “So, what else is new with you?”
    “Doug and I are ‘officially’ broken up.” She did air quotes there.
    “Thank God. I couldn’t stand that prick.”
    “What? You never told me that!”
    “Would it have done any good? I mean, c’mon, Till , you’ve never listened to anything I’ve had to tell you because to you I’m still just your baby brother.”
    When she started to protest, he made a face at her and she realized it was true. She did still think of him as being the twelve-year-old brat who’d tried using her bras as slingshots. Dang, when had he become so grown up?
    He continued. “Besides, my first year on the force, he called me trying to get me to get him out of a ticket. Who does that? I’d only met him once and the dumbass had the nerve to call me.”
    “That is pretty crappy.” God, she wished she’d seen Doug for what he really was sooner. Like two years ago sooner. Jeez.
    The microwave beeped and Jeff got out th e box, pulling a drawer open to nab a fork then went to sit at the dining table. “Anything else new?” he asked before shoving a huge bite of roasted potatoes into his mouth then moaning at how good it was. “Goddamn, this shit’s good.”
    “Mom would wash your mouth out if she heard you now,” Tilly scolded , pulling out a chair to sit with him.
    “Jen probably would too. What i s it with you women and your no-cussing rule?”
    “Quinn doesn’t have a no-cussing rule.”
    “Quinn isn’t normal. Quinn’s badass. I’ll never forget the way she chewed that guy out at the club on my twenty-second birthday. I thought he