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Sawyer looked up at her and she did her best to look cold instead of turned on "You asp, Maddie hopped up to come look Seconds later, Chloe had her sister, her sister’s fiancé, and thefar too close, staring at her injuries She tried to close her legs but couldn’t and tossed up her hands "They’re just scratches!"

"Oh, Chloe," Maddieher brow "Honey, you should have called aze ran over Chloe’s entire body now, as if he could see through her sweats A very naughty part of her brain considered telling him that the scratches went all the way up just so he’d deh inspection

Bad, bad brain Because at just the thought, her chest tightened, and she had to reach for her inhaler, thanks to the asthhtly breathless

And sexless "It’s nothing," she said "I’ht shove away fros fro Chloe out without qualm

Maddie shook her head, clearly horrified "Chloe God That was…crazy dangerous"

Hearing the worry in her voice had guilt tugging at Chloe She couldn’t believe how ers that were her half-sisters, or for that matter, about Lucky Harbor and the people in it The fact that she’d let down her guard enough to care at all was new

For most of her childhood, it had been just Chloe and her mom, and the lessons had been clear: Connections weren’tpass Only traditionalists let the relationships or full-tis and live life fully and freely

Like Chloe and Phoebe

"Raybo is crazy," Maddie said, ly"

Chloe wished Saould e with her foot Actually, it ht have been more like a kick Didn’t matter, he was a mountain and didn’t move

"It’s awfully hot in here," Maddie said, and opened the

"It’s called sexual tension" Jax sent an eyebroiggle in Sawyer and Chloe’s direction

Huallery

Sawyer sent Jax the sort of long, level look that undoubtedly had bad guys losing control of their bowels, but Jax just s to ht her breakfast first"

Chloe nodded "That’s what I said"

Maddie plopped into Jax’s lap to cuddle up to hihtmoves," Sawyer said Maddie and Jax stared pointedly at his position between Chloe’s thighs He lifted his hands fro up with his hands in the air "Okay, I’ to bed now Alone"

"You knohat your problem is?" Jax asked "You don’t kno to have fun Haven’t for a long tieneral vicinity of Chloe’s lower body--"look anything like fun to you?"

Jax choked back a snort, and even Maddie bit her lower lip to hide a smile

"Jesus," Sawyer said with a small head shake "You knohat I mean"

Yeah He’d s, as well as the risks she’d taken last night, but she said "hey" anyway in token protest Because daot to use it, that is

Chapter 2

"If things don’t seeer

One week later, Sawyer Thoun and cell phone onto the nightstand, and glanced at his bed It’d been a hell of a day, and the only thing that could have saved it would have been a wo for him

Naked

With nefarious intentions in ht ahead when he’d broken it off with Cindy a few months back But after four dates, the sweet, quiet, unassu out with a guy as on call just about 24-7

He couldn’t bla a hot shower, he stripped and stood beneath the spray Pressing his palms to the tile wall, he dropped his head and let the water bead over his aching neck and shoulders Today should have been a day off, but the county was perpetually understaffed, and fellow sheriff Tony Sanchez had taken a personal day to help his wife take their newborn twins for a checkup This left Sawyer covering not just Lucky Harbor but two neighboring s, he’d faced a dead ho to the ME--and delivered a newborn out on Highway 37 froood idea to drive herself to the hospital with contractions only one and a half minutes apart

After that, there was still time left in his day to break up a barroom brawl, deal with a domestic dispute call, and his favorite, rescue a five-year-old and his puppy from a muddy stor to him from that last call, but it didn’t revive hiut A pizza and a beer ht make a dent, but he didn’t have time for that Earlier he’d heard a ru ato et pizza and beer afterith Ford and Jax Either of his best friends would join him no ht

And in any case, what he really craved was a woman to bury himself in, and it wasn’t sweet Cindy who caainst all the reason and logic that he prided himself on, he wanted the one wo his buttons

The thought of it, of having Chloe, was about as crazy as his week had been She was obstinate, impulsive, trouble with a capital T…and da reiven up--the wild part There was a lot of sexual attraction, but no future Because while he was a permanent fixture in this town, Chloe was just a sexy little tu incident, there’d been an article in the opinion section of the local paper about recent vandalisone on to include a list of people in town known for trouble seeking, and Chloe had been on it

Not a big surprise