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“Cal” The hacienda had hadhad last been seen to before he was born

“You expect me to believe that? You have lived in this house your whole life” She slah force that it should have broken “First hot, then cold, then hot again My skin is still trying to decide if you were atte to her eyes and she swiped at the last night You broke your own rule, and taking it out on o away You don’t have to torture me to within an inch of my life before I promise not to attack your manly virtue I promise already”

With that she pivoted and headed out of the kitchen She stopped at the doorway Turning her head, she pinned him to the counter with her stare “If you run so much as a teaspoon of water while I finishyour favorite boots to Maurice”

He really had forgotten about the water thing She was never going to believe hiht She had responded with enough passion to keep hihts, but she had not started it However, he had not been the one to go all sexy in his eating habits

She had to take responsibility for her actions Well, actually, she had So why did it bother him so much that she had promised to keep her hands off hiet his libido under control before he risked losing the one person in his life he would never willingly let go

This ood example of how to h toor someone to keep his mind off of Zoe’s delectable lips and even e of Linda popped into his rimaced Okay, so it hadn’t worked with her, but he was a proble an entire strategy

His h the possibilities and settled on Carlene Daniels, the bartender at the Dry Gulch He played poker with the owner and a couple of local high rollers every feeeks, and she always served their table

She had a sense of hu commercial for prophylactics, but she didn’t date much She seemed to have a reputation, all the same, which was exactly what he wanted A woet his desire for Zoe under control

If he hadn’t given his ranch hands so much time off he would have left on a business trip, but that wasn’t an option right now Which left Carlene

Never one to hen he’d decided to act, he grabbed the phone book to look up the wo a phone call while she showered

Afternoon sun poured through the schoolroolue She wiped the sticky mess around it with a damp paper towel Her students had lue and little bits of colored paper to clean up She didn’t er toward Grant had finally cooled about the tione out toschool bus She could not maintain fury when surrounded by five-year-olds ex-cited about Christ possible tothe water while she’d been in the shower had been truly inspired It was soht have cooked up

She bit her lip and swept solitter off the table into the trashcan she carried For as long as she could remember Grant had been the only person in her life to accept her unconditionally When she’d becoh the roof, Grant had bought her The Tofu Lover’s Cookbook When her date had gotten sick the day of Senior Proht in shining ar the hash browns that had about burned a hole in her tongue, she thought, Soone from her hero to her sexual ne their relationship platonic? He’d been every bit as involved in that kiss last night as she had

And he wasn’t exactly celibate She didn’t think he was a coe But he was experienced Light-years ahead of her If only he knew She’d tried dating in college, and even gone so far as to go to bed with one of her dates She’d been feeling like an anachronisone anywhere She’dher boyfriend she just wasn’t ready, getting dressed and going back to her dorm room