Brooke paced in the sunroom, not sure she wanted to have this conversation in her favorite room in the house. She’d had time to digest her encounter with Jessica and now she needed clarification. She hadn’t expected Penn to come home right away; she just hadn’t wanted to ambush him.

That’s why she’d called him with what she now realized were the dreaded words for a man. “We have to talk.”

Well, they did have to talk. Before anything went further between them. Brooke ...