Why did he keep asking her hard questions? She inhaled and shook her head, tired of lying and the weight it added to her exhausted shoulders. “Not exactly,” she replied and rested her rear against the railing. His eyes narrowed. “Define not exactly.” “Dad.” A dawning entered his gaze as he muttered under his breath. Yeah, he was well aware of their over-achieving father’s pushy ways. Liam had been the only brother not to pursue a legal career. “I was home one day, Liam, one dang day from deployment, and he already had me enrolled in law school, interning at his firm, and engaged to one of the junior partners. Figuratively,” she added, pushing from the rail to begin pacing. “It didn’t matter that it wasn’t what I wanted. Didn’t matter that I’d already been accepted at a university here in Colorado and made plans to start this fall. No. So, I had to resort to drastic measures, and I…I kind of blurted out I was already engaged to Brett because I knew Dad admired him, and I’d hoped it would keep him off my back until the fall.
