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kind of cases do you work on?”
    He’d let her move the conversation back to him if it made her more comfortable. For now, anyway.
    “The firm I’m with does a variety of cases, many of them pro bono. It’s important for us to give back to the community. Recently Seb and I defended a young man who was arrested for a series of home invasions, but after talking with him we felt he was innocent.”
    “And?” she prompted, leaning forward. He liked how she listened when someone spoke, giving them all her attention. She did it with Nicky and now she was doing it with Dane. “Has it gone to trial?”
    “It has and we won, but his life is never going to be the same. Some people will never believe he was innocent. He has a long road ahead of him.”
    Her lips were curved into a smile and it looked like she’d forgotten his earlier questions. “Do you wear a suit and say, ‘ladies and gentleman of the jury’?”
    “I do,” he confirmed, thinking about yesterday when he’d been in court. Maybe he’d take her one day so she could see what he did for a living. Later. When he told her who he was. He was going to have to come clean very soon. Now that he knew her he didn’t like the fact that he was keeping his true identity from her. “Seb doesn’t like trial work so it’s usually me and Chris that do most of it. Seb handles a lot of the behind the scenes negotiations and paperwork.”
    “And Seb and Chris are your friends?”
    “My best friends. We’ve known each other since before kindergarten. We grew up together, roomed together in college, and even joined the Army together after 9/11.”
    Nicky and Ace were chasing each other around a tree, laughing and giggling. Lily, on the other hand, had a frown on her face. “You were in the military? How long?”
    “Until about eighteen months ago. What were you doing then?”
    “Changing diapers. Did you see combat?”
    “Yes, and that’s about all I say about that. It’s over and done with.” Dane was a master at compartmentalizing his life. His time in the Middle East had been firmly relegated to the past and wasn’t allowed to have influence on the future.
    “Message received. Still, I have a hard time imagining you in the Army.”
    Her brow was wrinkled in concentration and he had to laugh because he knew she was trying to picture him in his uniform. “I didn’t mind military life. I’m very structured naturally and I enjoyed the physical and mental challenge.”
    “Oh God, are you one of those morning people? Nicky loves mornings and wakes me up at the crack of dawn every damn day, rain or shine, weekday or weekend. Just once I’d love to sleep in.”
    “Guilty as charged. I’m up about five-thirty every morning. I go for a run or lift some weights. Then have some breakfast and enjoy the quietest part of the day.”
    “It’s quiet because most of the sane people are still sleeping,” she retorted. “Is it wrong to say how much I love my bed?”
    An image of Lily naked and tangled in sheets flashed through Dane’s mind, making his pulse race and his palms sweat. “I would imagine being a single parent is exhausting. So no, it’s not wrong.” He looked up into the sky and the sun was beginning to sink. The park would close at dusk. “We better get packed up or the park ranger will be kicking us out of here.”
    “I need to get Nicky into a bath and then bed. I think he has half the dirt from the park on him today.”
    Dane finished packing up the food and walked her and Nicky to her car, which was parked next to his. “You better take these leftovers. I rarely eat at home and they’ll just go bad in my refrigerator.”
    Lily bit into her lower lip, shaking her head. “No, you should take them. You bought everything.”
    Shit, she was so sweet she didn’t even want to take a few leftovers home. Lily was slowly giving Dane a lesson in how a woman could be unselfish. So far he’d never seen her do anything for herself, always thinking of