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I’m right here if you need. Just call out. Okay?”
    She nodded and closed her eyes. “Thanks, Daddy.”
    He tipped the sides of his mouth up in a half smile. He had made the right decision. In that moment hearing his daughter say, “Thanks, Daddy” was worth more than a million pleasure-filled “Yes, God” sighs from Joni during the throes of passion.

C HAPTER 3
    One month later
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    â€œCome on, Specs, you have to talk to Daddy for me,” Kaitlyn urged as she paced the length of her brother’s office in the renovated townhome, which housed his accounting business.
    Kaeden dropped his pen. “Don’t you think it’s time you come up with a new nickname for me?” he drawled dryly.
    Kaitlyn swung around to eye him incredulously. “That is so unimportant right now. Don’t you think?” she snapped.
    Shrugging, Kaeden sat back in his leather executive chair. “Kaitlyn, you’ve had a month to get yourself together. You only have another month before your allowance drops substantially, and just six months after that before you’re on your own.”
    Kaitlyn came around one of the chairs before his desk to drop down into it. “I’m calling his bluff,” she said, tilting up her chin.
    â€œI wouldn’t if I were you . . . and you know I know.”
    Kaitlyn bit her bottom lip as she looked at the serious expression on her brother’s square and handsome face. Of course he knew. He was the accountant/ business manager for her father’s horse farm, which her eldest brother, Kade, was now running. Kaeden served in that financial role for all her brothers and their businesses: Kahron’s own cattle ranch, which also housed his wife’s veterinary practice, and Kaleb’s dairy farm, with its new addition of a storefront.
    Oh, he was deep in everybody’s business. So he knew.
    And they had not paid her back rent. She had to be out of her apartment in two weeks and counting.
    She pressed her hands to her face and then ran her fingers up through the short ends of her pixie cut. “I’ll just move in with one of y’all,” she said flippantly, crossing her legs in the dark blue strapless jumpsuit she wore, along with a pair of cork-wedge heels.
    Kaeden shook his head. “No, you will find a cheaper apartment that your allowance can afford and then find a job, Kaitlyn,” he said gently.
    Her back stiffened as she let her tote bag drop to the floor. “So you would let your own baby sister roam the streets and eat garbage to survive,” she asked accusingly, locking slanted eyes on him.
    Kaeden coughed and shuffled papers. “You are hardly about to sleep on subway grates and rummage through trash,” he said.
    Kaitlyn jumped to her feet. “I am stressed over this mess,” she roared. “My hair is falling out.”
    She attempted to pull out the ends of her hair, but nary a strand floated down to the papers before him.
    Kaeden chuckled.
    Kaitlyn fought not to choke him, before she dropped back down into her chair. She had already made the rounds through her entire family. Even the sisters-in-law weren’t messing with it.
    No one was going against her father’s word.
    No one was backing down from the so-called mission of getting her to grow up.
    How exactly you could re-raise an already-grown woman in her middle twenties was beyond reason to her.
    Especially when there isn’t a blessed thing wrong with me!
    â€œI handle the books for this guy who owns a small apartment complex right in Holtsville—”
    Kaitlyn’s eyes bulged. “You want me to move back to Holtsville?”
    Kaeden leaned forward to press his elbows onto the top of his desk. “Oh, you’re too good for Holtsville?” he asked.
    She leaned back and eyed him intently. “You and Jade don’t live in Holtsville,” she tossed back, sounding very tit-for-tat.
    He shrugged and