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Blowing out a breath, I kneeled and crawled around the side of the island I’d just snagged the escapee sock when the door to the laundry room flew open But it wasn’t Rose

Nope Definitely not Rose

Jesse tossed his hat onto the island before tugging his shirt free of his jeans They were just as tight as the ones he’d worn yesterday I was ready to bolt up and de in front of me when he pulled the dirty, damp shirt from his body and tossed it into one of the laundry carts

He didn’t knoas there I wasn’t exactlyspot I ht have been on all fours on the floor of a laundry slash torture rooht then, I had the best da his way over to the utility sink, Jesse cranked on the water before leaning down and splashing his face and hair Hello, fine, fine ass How I’d ing over the edge of the sink As Jesse straightened up,that backside up the seam of his back

Hot damn, did that man have more than his fair share ofon the shadowed groves and highlighted peaks, I had the nearly uncontrollable urge to touch hi up Jesse Walker

My heartbeat picked up, along withto life in a familiar way

What the hell?

Was I about to get off in a laundry roo on the back of some cowboy I’d known for all of a day and a half?

After Jesse finished drying his face, he tossed the towel into the cart, too Okay, he was done He’d reet out of here so I could get back to taking full breaths again

That hen he unfastened his belt buckle and ht as his thumbs hitched beneath the waist of his jeans If I had to watch the rest of the Jesse Walker strip tease, I would moan the alphabet

Jesse spun around His look of surprise fell when he saw aze shifted froht his back had been worthy of building the pyra down to his tapered waist, trailing down to his

The undone belt buckle and button of his jeans did not make it easy to not think about certain pieces of anato about when he looked aton me?" Those sky blue eyes sparkled as he took a few steps my way

I forcedaway fro their way to hisahe it any easier for me to not think about it

"No," I replied,for soyour clothes off" In addition to h, it was also a few notches too loud

"And you decided to stay silent and hidden for the entire ti because?" he asked, but he wasn’t really asking That s When I didn’t answer, his s the free show" Not a seon of doubt

My eyes snapped open, and I forced the them out, to stay north of his neck Not that Jesse’s face calmed my heartbeat, but at least

"Not even," I said, narrowingpatiently for you to be on yourwhatever you so egotistically think I was doing," I snapped back

"Whatever, Rowen You were checking me out so hardcore your face is still red" Jesse took a fewdown beside me, his smirk shifted into a smile "Mind if I join you down here?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I do," I lied "Besides, I don’t think there’s enough rooo down here"

He leaned his ar his shoulders roll forward Soas hi athis chest popped a bitto hover a foot in front ofit cool because I’d failedtothe way I was unraveling

"If I put on a shirt, will you do so for me?" His eyes, for the first time since he’d kneeled beside me, shifted from my face They skied down the plane of s His eyes went a shade darker before he clamped them closed "Could you sit up? Or, better yet, stand up?" When his eyes reopened, one side of his face lined when he found me in the same position On my hands and knees With a short skirt on andin the air

I don’t know if I’d ever sat up so quickly inI didn’t knohat the big deal was It wasn’t the first short skirt I’d ever worn, and I’m sure it wasn’t the first ti one, but Jesse had a way ofa bitout back here" He flashed ize" He grabbed a white undershirt froed it over his head "I wasn’t coently punched him in the stoht you cowboys were supposed to be gentlemen"