Shana couldn't help sharing a naughty giggle with her daughter. Lauren had such a naughty kind of innocence about her that it was hard to stay mad at her for very long. Her mother loved her. She was the baby of the family, of course, but there was a part of Shana that saw her as the younger woman who stole her husband.

"I have to admit I didn't know what to think at first." Shana kept the truth of her intense, first reaction to herself. "But you obviously know that your brother and I had a serious...talk."

Lauren giggled and her father's hand slipped back onto one of her...