I jerked. Only Roy sat inside the room, in the same chair he’d used yesterday. He was dressed to the nines once more, this time in a navy-blue suit and black button-down. No tie. His hair was combed into a smooth low ponytail.

I cleared my throat. “Hi.”

He smiled. “Hi, silver.”

“You can’t—”

“Call you that when everyone gets here. I know.” He looked at his watch. “Right on time. Where is everyone else?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t check Lacey’s office before I came.”

“I’m sure they’ll be here soo—”

Reid walked in the door then. “Hey. Where’s Rock?”

“Isn’t your office right next to his?” Roy asked.

“He wasn’t in it. I assumed he was here.”

Jarrod and Terrence arrived behind Reid and sat with me on the other side of the table.

“Hi, Charlie,” Jarrod said. “Hanging in there?”

I smiled. “Trying.”

I looked over at Roy and his gaze was stern. Had Jarrod been flirting with me? He was just a flirtatious kind of guy, from what I’d seen so far. He was also gorgeous. And single.

I smiled inside. Roy was jealous.

I liked that. I liked it a lot.

Roy didn’t have anything to worry about. Jarrod and Terrence were both handsome, but Roy was something else altogether.

“Where the hell is our brother?” Reid said to Roy.

“How the hell should I know? Don’t you have him on a leash?”

Reid rolled his eyes. “I wish.”

A few more minutes passed in awkward silence, and then Rock and Lacey entered, looking flustered. Lacey’s hair was in disarray, and one part of Rock’s shirttail was hanging outside his trousers.

“For God’s sake,” Reid said.

I held back a giggle. Things had apparently not changed since that first time with Rock and Lacey in her former office.

Lacey took her seat, her cheeks red. She still didn’t know that I’d heard her and Rock that first day, during a break in the reading of Derek Wolfe’s will.

“This is an office,” Reid said.

Rock didn’t reply, just took his seat at the head of the table. “I’ve got some people joining us today,” he said.

“Who?” Reid asked. “We’ve got enough to do as it is.”

“Some friends of mine from back home.”

“This is your home now, Rock,” Reid said. “Unfortunately for all of us.”

“You’re telling me.” Rock riffled his fingers through his short hair. “But this is important. They have information for us.”

“Who are they?” This time from Roy.

“One’s a lawyer, the other’s a gynecologist. I’ve finally convinced them to tell me what they know. At least I think I have.”

“Why would anyone in Montana know—”

Rock interrupted Reid. “One of Manny’s patients—”

“Wait a minute.” This time Reid interrupted Rock. “Manny? Seriously?”