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CHAPTER ONE

‘COMING through!’ Lena clapped one hand over her eyes and pushed the changing roo theer bothered Eighteenaround she ht as well be wallpaper But today she was in and out more than usual, and they were in and out of clothes more than usual, too

She peeked through her fingers and registered that they were out of their clothes at the moment—but that they’d towels round their waists Short towels Dropping her hand fro off her shoulder and started pulling out the contents ‘I’ve got the next lot—you want them now?’

‘Not yet, it’s the shower shot,’ Ty, the team captain, answered for everyone

‘Oh, okay’ She dropped the handful of shorts and looked up to find a place to leave the bag And froze Silently she swivelled her eyeballs left to right and back again and refused to let her reaction show

Because nineteen nearly naked guys now surrounded her Closely surrounded her

Lena called on all her internal discipline to keep her focus up on their le was always there—how could it not be? They were chaamuscles to prove it and no red-blooded woe to admire

Lena was as red-blooded as any other woman She just pretended not to be

She narrowed her gaze because they were all grinning at her and stepping closer still, tightening the circle Yep, she was in the by scruht be thousands of wo to be in that exact position—sans the towels—she wasn’t one of them

‘What are you doing?’ she de-sister tone

‘We need your help,’ Ty answered for theain, too innocently

She handed hi in the hope he’d step back and take the others with hi creases out of a couple of them’

Her job description included that nebulous sentence ‘other duties as required’, and this one day of the year thatthe part of wardrobe hts endured the photo shoot for their annual calendar

‘We need you to do sohth, spoke up

‘Really? What?’

‘The photographer says we have to glisten’

Lena closed her mouth and took a microsecond to keep cool Then she asked for clarification ‘Glisten?’

Jimmy nodded and held up a bottle Baby oil ‘All over the torso’

‘You can rub it on each other’ She bit back an add-on co each other out there in the mud She never let sassy snark out in the stadiuot to know the newbies she was friendly in a sisterly way, but, until then, pretty frigid

‘We’ve got ball shots colanced at each other and set that oil on our hands Too slippery’

Slippery, huh? With balls Oh, they were appalling today