- LILY -

Lou turns bright red when I finally meet her downstairs.

"I'm so sorry," she says. "I knocked, I swear. I thought maybe you'd overslept or something."

"It's all right," I assure her.

"Not if I scarred Calder for life."

I smile at her astute analysis of her brother. He might not be opposed to feeling me up under a boat with reporters all around or playing a sexy game in the bathroom of a roadside sex shop, but he's ...