“I’ll take her,” Blake said. “I want to get a bottle in her first. Egan?—”
“On it.” His brother was already up and grabbing an empty bottle with a can of formula and moving to the kitchen.
“Can I feed her?” Adrienne asked.
“She’s great feeding Ollie,” Eli said.
“You can,” Blake said. “We’ll sit next to each other on the couch while you do it.”
Ethan got up to make room for them, then walked to the glass doors and opened them up to the covered deck overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
There was something about this place that was crazy calming.
Maybe he should look into a place of his own.
But who the hell had time? He barely spent much time in his condo, but at least he had a water view there too.
He turned when he heard footsteps behind him and saw Eli approaching. Great. Of all people.
“What’s your deal with the looks and comments?” Ethan asked.
Eli grinned. “You know there are no secrets in the casino. I find out everything.”
Ethan sighed. “What’d you find out?”
“That you went to your room with someone, but woke up alone.”
“So?” Ethan shot back. “You’ve done that plenty, before your wife fell into your lap.”
Eli smirked. “Fair. And I wouldn’t have thought twice about it except it was brought to Griffin’s attention that a woman was caught tiptoeing out of your room like she’d just stolen something.”
Only his heart.
What. The. Fuck.
Where the hell did that come from?
“Nope,” he muttered.
“Then that same staffer went back to the desk and checked the name on the room.”
“And saw it was mine,” he said. “So she ran to you? Whatever happened to confidentiality?”
Eli held up a hand. “Relax. She didn’t say a word to me. She told Griffin, just in case. Because that woman checked out before the first ferry. Nobody does that.”
Goddammit. His brother was putting the pieces together faster than he wanted.
“I didn’t know that,” he said carefully.
“Just like you might not have known, or wanted, her sneaking out. Jones is a common name, but I don’t know any other men named Norris. Eleanor was on the room, which Nora could be short for. Related?”
He exhaled. “His daughter.”
Eli burst out laughing. “You’re shitting me. Did you know who she was that night?”
“Nope,” he said, thephitting harder than he intended.
That only made Eli laugh harder. “So she ghosted you and then showed up to apply for a job?”
