“You’re going to be okay,” Ian said. “You have the best support system there is and more aunts and uncles than your baby will know what to do with.”

She smiled. That much, at least, she knew to be true. She stepped back and looked up at her half brother. “Do we have an understanding, though? You’ll stay out of my personal life?”

“You’re going to want me around when the baby is born,” he said smugly.

“I’ll take that as a yes.” It was the best she was going to get from him, she knew.

* * *

Standing in his apartment in Manhattan, Ethan felt like he’d been gone a month instead of the week he’d been in Miami. In fact, if he didn’t know better, he’d say he’d become an entirely different man. Sure as fuck, he was going to be a father.

He ran his hand through his hair, shocked when a knock sounded on his door. Nobody knew he was back in town. He purposely hadn’t told anyone, wanting time alone to process what had gone down and decide how he was going to handle things going forward. He walked over and opened the door to find Sebastian on the other side.

“John told me you were back,” Sebastian said of the doorman as he strode past Ethan without waiting to be invited in. “Any reason I didn’t know?”

“Because I needed time alone,” Ethan said pointedly.

Sebastian sat down on the sofa in the family room, deliberately not taking the hint. “Talk to me, Ethan. Last time I saw you, I found out you’d slept with Ian’s sister. Now you’re home out of the blue. Why?”

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.” He settled into his favorite club chair across from his brother.

“You fucked her again?”

An unwilling smile tipped Ethan’s mouth. “I tried.”

Sebastian raised his eyebrows. “She turned you down?”

“And threw a salt shaker at me.”

His brother burst out laughing. “I think I like this woman. At the very least, she challenges you.”

“That’s putting it mildly.” Ethan clasped his hands together and met his brother’s gaze. “I asked her to have an affair and keep it a secret.”

Sebastian shook his head. “Oh, brother. You are a piece of work.”

“How the hell was I supposed to know her father kept her mother a dirty secret for years?”

Leaning forward, Sebastian rested on his elbows. “And you think that’s the only reason that was the wrong move?”

Ethan rose to his feet, unable to sit still. “No. It was a shitty thing to do. In my defense, I was trying to protect the stadium contract.” Which, he still had to tell his brother, was in jeopardy.

He walked over to the window and glanced out at the nighttime sky, feeling small in comparison, which was ironic because his problems felt huge.

“What’s really going on?” Sebastian’s voice interrupted his thoughts.

Ethan drew a deep breath and turned to face him. “Sienna is pregnant.”