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He’d been tagged on Facebook In fact, on the Lucky Harbor page there was an entire note on his and news They called hihthter stopped him and drove into town Lucky Harbor was nestled in a rocky cove, its architecture a quirky, eclecticwas lined with Victorian buildings painted in bright colors, housing the requisite grocery store, post office, gas station, and hardware store Then there was a turnoff to the beach itself, where a long pier jutted out into the water, lined with more shops, the arcade and Ferris wheel, and the diner

Eat Me was like so from an out-of-tiotten laid at Vets’ Hall, in a storage attic above the entire town

Noticing the brand new front door, he entered the diner and took a seat at the counter A of coffee This was routine; they’d been doing the sa He really appreciated that in a waitress, and he liked her infinitely rumpy diner owner Jan scared him, just a little bit

Then Amy dropped the local paper in front of hilasses to the top of his head and gave her a level look Her return look had bad attitude all over it She wore a black tee with some Chinese symbol on the front and the requisite frilly pink apron that looked incongruous with her short deniestured with a short jerk of her chin to the paper, and he took a look

The headline read: COUNTY HOSPITAL’S AUCTION--A HUGE SUCCESS

So far so good, he thought, then read the first paragraph, which credited the success of the auction to the nurses, specifically Mallory Quinn, who along with her new boyfriend had gotten the entire Vets’ Hall on its feet by starting off the bidding with a bang

Ty reread the article New boyfriend? Mysterious Cute Guy? He graced Amy with his no-nonsense, don’t-fuck-with-me look It had cowed many

But Amy didn’t appear impressed or even particularly intimidated

He set down the paper and pushed it away

She pushed it back with a single finger

"Do you have a point?" he asked

"Several, actually First, Mallory’s e in her life You were that change Don’t make me sorry"

Ty wasn’t much used to threats, however sweetly uttered Never had been He’d been raised by twohim when one or the other had been on tour overseas He’d been loved, but weaknesses had not been tolerated Even his current job added up to a life lived by rules, discipline, sheer wits, and honor

The honor part was troubling him now

Soed to find celebrity status in this crazy-ass, one-horse town, and even worse, there was Mallory, wanting him to take her for a walk on the wild side

Bad idea

The baddest

He’d done it anyway, fallen captive to thoseout of Lucky Harbor any irl," he finally said

Asoenetically flawed

Ty was inclined to agree with her He paid for his coffee and received another long, careful look fro to heed the warning, the jury was still out He went straight back to his big, e levels, he worked on the Shelby He’d seen the car in the newspaper on his first day in Lucky Harbor had hadn’t been able to resist her

He’d never been able to resist a sweetheart of a car

Or, apparently, a sweetheart of a wo surrounded by a bunch of administrators that included her boss and herof her life Instead, her mind was a e rooe roo her warotten nad with him

Well, not quite nad, she reminded herself She’d been in such a hurry that she hadn’t even lost her panties, not coers

Just reone up in flames so hard and fast in her entire life

Heaven

He’d taken her to heaven in seven ain, in a heartbeat

That is, if the man who’d taken her to heaven hadn’t vanished from the auction without a word That should teach her to have completely inappropriate sex with a man whose name she’d learned only twenty ht her was that she’d beenout Worse, she knew the nitude of her attraction for him now, and she was afraid that the next ti to shove him into the nearest closet for round two

And round three

Mallory took athe next tiain; he’d seemed to really like it And maybe next time she’d leave the panties at home--

"Mallory?"

She blinked away the vision of Ty and her panties and came face to face with a not amused Jane

"The amount?" Jane asked in a tone that said she’d repeated herself several tihteen thousand" Mallory looked down at the check in her hands, a check she was incredibly proud of--the total of the proceeds from the auction "You said the board would donate twenty-five percent of it to the Health Services Clinic"