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You don’t need a Rhodes girl mucking your shit
up.  You should let things lie.  Leave the past in the past.”
    He sat back with a grin.  “Stalking
it is then.”  She laughed because she couldn’t help herself.  “Do you know
Damien and Cristiana have been dating on the sly for the past several months? 
Trying not to let any of their siblings know?”  Diesel wiggled his brows and
made her crack up again.
    Kenzie pushed her plate to the
side and crossed her arms on the table.  “Do you know Douglas and Katya
have been having hot monkey sex off and on for over a year and not even
Cristiana knows?  He makes business trips out to see her in LA.”
    He came to full attention.  “ What? ” 
He shook his head and she nodded.  “Digger would have told me.  No way.”
    “Think so?  I thought Kat would
have told me, too…I happened to catch her talking to him on the phone the last
time she visited.  I had to wrestle the damn thing from her…being nosey is my
prerogative since I’m the oldest.  Can’t mistake the caller ID of Digger
Baby .  She confessed after I threatened to tell her twin she was keeping
secrets.”
    Diesel was floored but smiling.  “Dean
has been chasing Jackie in Chicago for months.  She won’t give him the time of
day.  Says she has more important things to do than entertain a flighty LeBlanc
boy.  Drives him nuts.”
    “Just hard to get.  She’s crazy
about him…doesn’t want him thinking she’s easy,” Kenzie assured him. 
    Pushing his empty plate aside, he
folded his massive arms on the table to mimic her position.  “Three out of four
Rhodes girls with three out of the four oldest LeBlanc boys.  Interesting
odds.  So MacKenzie…why are you playing hard to get?”
    “How do you know I’m just not interested ,
Diesel?  You’ve gotten used to supermodels falling at your feet, I think.  We
mere mortals do things a little differently.”
    He flinched before he could stop
the reaction to her knowing about his highly-publicized flings.  He recovered
quickly when he realized she was using it to deflect him. 
    Was she really trying to convince
him she wasn’t physically attracted to him?  Her nipples told a far different
story. 
    Diesel leaned further across the table
and whispered, “I dare you to test that theory, Kenzie.”
    She took a deep breath and looked
down at the table top.  “You don’t want to do this, Diesel.  I mean it.  Things
are good for you.  Leave them alone.  My personal notch is already in your bedpost;
no need to go there again.  I’m sure there are plenty of women just praying
you’ll call them.” 
    She stood up and grabbed her
stuff.  Kissing his hair, he felt her inhale deeply.  As she stood up, she
added, “It was good to see you, Diesel.  I’m so proud of you.” 
    Then she was out the door like
she was fleeing the scene of a crime.
    Diesel threw money on the table
and hauled ass to his truck.  He could see her at the end of the block and
peeled out to catch her. 
    For several miles he stayed far enough
away to avoid her catching sight of him.  As they slowly maneuvered the streets
of Cambridge, he grinned to himself.  He hadn’t been kidding about the
stalking. 
    She was hiding something, and
since she wouldn’t come clean, he was going to figure it out. 
    When she pulled into an apartment
complex, he passed it then circled around and waited to see which apartment she
was going into. 
    A window lit up and he smiled.  Got
ya, baby.  
    He watched as she moved around,
turning lights on and off.  A soft blue light in another window drew his
attention.  It seemed to be moving, like a display or something. 
    What the fuck? 
    Then he noticed the action
figures and plastic animals lined up inside the two windows of that room. 
There was a child sleeping in that apartment.  There was a small child in Kenzie’s
apartment. 
    He thought about their
conversation, about her hesitations and nervousness, and