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father.”
    Like a damn dog with a bone, she wished she could just smack him on the nose to get him to drop it. “Questions? I don’t owe you any answers. You’re not my husband.”
    “And just where is he?”
    “That’s none of your concern.”
    Brodie’s nostrils flared as he snarled with barely leached ferocity. “It is my concern when I have to risk my own neck to rescue his stupid, little wife.”
    Jamie gasped at that and reeled back. “Excuse me, but you didn’t rescue me. I rescued myself . I don’t need to be rescued by some overgrown, egotistical, whiny little pansy to ride in and take all the credit.”
    “ That’s three .”  
    “Enough!”
Sheridan
cut Jamie’s comeback off before she even got the first word out. It pained her, but her jaw clicked closed even if her mutinous gaze never wavered from Brodie’s glowering one. “You two are giving me a headache.”
    “See?” Jamie pounced on
Sheridan
’s comment. “You’re bothering my father, now leave.”
    “I said enough, Jamie, and I don’t think it’s all that odd that Brodie would have some questions about your sudden appearance. I have some questions.”
Sheridan
’s eyes narrowed on Jamie’s appearance. “Though I think first, perhaps you should freshen up.”
    “And leave you alone with these two so they can poison you against me?” Jamie snorted. “I don’t think so.”
    “We’re just going to tell him the truth,” Brodie snapped back.
    Jamie gave him a dirty look for speaking. “It’s in how you tell it.”
    “Then tell it in a way that doesn’t make you look stupid!” Jamie’s spine stiffened at that, but Brodie obviously didn’t care. “Go on, tell him.”
    “I plan to, but you know it has been a long day, and it would be nice if you gave a lady a moment to relax before you bullied her, you…you bully.” Damnit! She knew how to give a man a better putdown than that. He just had her so flustered. She felt like screaming.
    “Fine, then I’ll tell him.”
    That did it. The reigns of her control snapped, and she did just what she felt like. Screaming at the top of her lungs, she released all her pent up fear and anger in a blood-curdling shriek that had all three men flinching as they hastened to cover their ears. She didn’t stop until the emotion wore itself out over her parched throat.
    With a deep breath, she gave one final sigh and straightened the tails of her vest with a sharp tug. “There, I feel much better now.” And she did.
    “You a crazy lady,” Brodie spat.
    “And you’re a stubbed-dick bastard who screws with the lights off to keep the women from laughing.” Ah, there. That felt good.
    “ Jamie! ”
    Whoops. She’d forgotten about her father, and there would be no excusing that language.
    “Apologize now,” her father demanded.
    Not that she would, but Brodie beat her to the punch in responding. “I ain’t going to be accepting no apology on your steps,
Sheridan
. Jamie knows what I want.”
    And he thought she wouldn’t say it in front of her father… damnit, he had it right, too. Instead of giving him the shock of his life, and her daddy a heart attack in the process, Jamie ground her teeth together as she tolerated her daddy doing what she would never.
    “Brodie, I am sorry.”
Sheridan
gave her a warning look. The one that told her he expected her to speak now, but she kept her lips defiantly closed. That led her father to the ‘wait until we’re alone’ look before he cut his gaze toward Brodie. “I really don’t know what has gotten into Jamie, but you can rest assured I will be handling this matter.”
    “I know what’s gotten into her,” Brodie grunted and Jamie rolled her eyes. Here it came. “It’s that’s husband of hers. The man ain’t doing right by your daughter.”
    Her father puffed up slightly as he silently weighted that. Her father didn’t know anything more about her supposed husband than what she had written him. That had been very little, given