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to the door.
    “Finally!” Tianna said, pushing inside. “What? You aren’t ready yet? I told you we’d be here at six thirty.” His little sister was a miniature of his mother—blond hair, tiny frame, and blue eyes with the same dark lashes—though he knew for a fact that her blond came from a bottle and not from nature like his mother’s.
    “I had to work late. I spent the morning . . . Never mind.”
    “Well, the others are waiting in the car. But I need to eat something right now, or I’m going to puke.” She made a face, grabbing her stomach. “Oops, too late.” With a hand over her mouth she ran across his living room and down the hall. He heard her gag into the toilet. Ugh.
    “Is she okay?”
    He turned to see his other sister, Rhonda, in the doorway of his apartment. She was tall, brown-haired, and large-boned like their father, and her square face was more arresting than beautiful. She’d had more boyfriends growing up than anyone he’d ever known. “I don’t know.”
    “Well, get your socks and shoes on and I’ll go check. She should be over the worst of it soon.”
    “I thought morning sickness only happened in the morning.”
    “That’s a myth.” She frowned. “Why aren’t you ready?”
    He sighed. “I had some things to take care of.”
    She had started walking across the living room, but now she stopped and faced him. “Is it something to do with mom? Because I happen to know she came to see you yesterday. And she’s been acting weird.”
    What would Rhonda say if she knew they had another sister? She’d probably confront her mother but agree with her that things were better left as they were. She hated clashing with Eli. She was a lot like their mother that way.
    “I just worked late,” he said.
    “I’ve heard they’re slave drivers at Honeywell.”
    He laughed. “I like to keep busy.”
    Tianna took that moment to appear in the living room, her face pale and her blond hair a bit wild. “I’m beginning to rethink this whole pregnancy thing.”
    “Well, we all told you to wait a few years,” Rhonda said. “But don’t worry. You won’t remember any of it once the baby’s born.”
    Tianna rolled her eyes, and Harrison stifled a laugh. Same old Tianna, who hated being mothered by her sister. Only twelve months separated them, but Rhonda had always been an old soul.
    “So are we still going?” Harrison asked.
    “Of course we’re going.” Tianna glared at him, hands on her hips. “A little puking doesn’t change anything. We’re going to celebrate all of us being together again if it kills me. Got it?”
    “Okay, okay.” He hurried to the bedroom for his socks.
    “And fix your hair!” Tianna called after him. “Put some gel in it or something. You look like you just got out of the shower.”
    Harrison laughed. It was good to be home, even if his baby sisters thought they had to take care of him. It was kind of nice for a change, going with the flow instead of trying to figure out a romantic relationship that had soured and dragging himself every day to a job he’d once loved but that had somehow become unfulfilling.
    Fifteen minutes later, Harrison was in the backseat of his brother-in-law’s car. “So, where’re we going?” he asked Tianna, who sat between him and her husband Chad, a man who had been a football player before he started selling air conditioners and whose arms were double the size of Harrison’s.
    “I don’t know,” she said.
    After a little investigation, Harrison realized that everyone had thought someone else had taken care of reservations, and by the time Rhonda’s husband, Graham, turned north on Black Canyon Highway, no one had any ideas where to go, or why he’d turned onto the highway in the first place. “I’m just driving,” he said when Rhonda protested. “Tell me where to go, and I’ll drive there.”
    “How about Sizzler?” Chad asked. “They’re having a special. All you can eat ribs.”
    “Ugh, no,” said