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still managing to make her inn prosper, cultivating and maintaining the highest rating her B and B could earn. Even her accident could have been a lot worse had it not been for her iron will. The last word Miles would use to describe his mother was “fragile.”
    â€œIs there something you’re not telling us about her health?” Miles demanded.
    Kate waved a hand as she tugged Emily away from the desk. His niece quietly had taken every paper clip from the drawer and formed a long necklace, which she promptly draped around her neck. “Not her physical health, per se,” his sister said. “More like her”—she covered her daughter’s ears—“sexual health.”
    Miles felt as if his head had finally exploded. Gavin was plugging his own ears up with his fingers. “La, la, la,” his brother chanted. “TMI, Kate.
T.M.I!
”
    â€œOh, boys, don’t be such prudes. Our mother is engaged to a hot younger man who has needs. Get over it. A broken hip is an obstacle they need to work around. But, hey, where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
    Gavin was banging his forehead on the desk now while Miles tried unsuccessfully to rid his mind of the image of his mother and the sheriff practicing moves from the Kama Sutra. “Go to dinner, Kate,” he breathed, trying to calm his queasy stomach. “You’ve just ruined ours.”
    With a gay laugh, his sister waltzed out the door, Emily skipping beside her.
    â€œWe should have let her run away when she was nine,” Gavin mumbled, his forehead still resting on the desk.
    â€œHey, I packed a bag for her,” Miles replied. “It was Dad who went after her and coaxed her to come back. I was mad at him for at least a month.”
    Gavin stood up and dragged his fingers through his hair. “Well, if the sheriff breaks her heart, he’d better sleep with his gun tucked under his pillow. That’s all I’ve got to say.”
    â€œIf the sheriff breaks whose heart?”
    A dopey grin overtook his brother’s face at the sight of his girlfriend, Ginger Walsh, standing in the doorway. Petite and blond with unusual green eyes, she was wearing an intimate smile of her own. Gavin reached out and pulled her against his chest, capturing her lips in a scorching kiss.
    â€œHello, you two! Midas and I are getting grossed out here,” Miles said after a few moments passed. “I’d tell you to get a room, but you have one just up those steps,” he added. “How about you run along and take advantage of that, hmm?”
    Ginger managed to break the kiss and put a sliver of distance between their bodies. “Are you picking on the sheriff again, Miles?” she asked.
    Miles had never made a secret of the fact that he didn’t particularly approve of his mother’s relationship with a man who’d moved to town less than three years ago and was five years her junior to boot. But he had been in the minority within his family—not to mention the entire population of Chances Inlet. Not only that, but his mother had made it abundantlyclear that she wasn’t much interested in her oldest son’s opinion of her love life. Still it was good to know Gavin would likely hold the guy down while Miles beat the crap out of him if Lamar Hollister broke their mother’s heart.
    Miles held up his hands. “Not me this time.” He pointed to his brother.
    Ginger looked at Gavin expectantly.
    Gavin’s sigh was resolute. “My mom is worried that Lamar will lose interest in her while she’s recuperating.”
    Miles snickered at his brother’s sugar-coated version of the truth.
    â€œOh, that’s just silly, Gavin,” Ginger said. “Have you seen the way the guy looks at her?”
    Both brothers exchanged a pained look. They
had
seen the way the sheriff looked at their mother. Like she was lunch.
Damn.
The queasy feeling returned to