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"No, the crack in the windshield is our fault Not the battery"

She stared at the ser’s side and felt an eye twitch coht"

"Christ Hang on" He covered the phone and hed, and then Joe was back "Mal, if all you need is a jump, ask anyone around you" He lowered his voice "I’m on a date With Ashley"

She had no idea who Ashley was but she was assu it wasn’t his blonde "What happened to whatshernausted sigh "You’re aup

Grinding her teeth, Mallory called hih her contact list again Her mother was out of the question Ella wouldn’t have a set of jumper cables, not to mention she’d want to talk about Mallory’s social life Maybe Taht, and hit her sister’s nuiveup, her usually dor for any one of her fale one of thee the fact that she was still wet, cold, and stranded in a dark parking lot Again she thumbed her contacts and stopped at one in particular

Mysterious Cute Guy, aka Ty Garrison

She had the stuffed ani on her bed, like she elve and insteady with the town bad boy

Except would the bad boy really have stood up at a townin front of everyone and defended her? Would he have stopped and helped a stranded woman on the side of the road? Grace had told her what he’d done And so had A that he’d patched her up with calm efficiency

Yeah, Ty was far ure him out

She shouldn’t call him for help For one, they’d had inappropriate sex without involvement To compound that mistake, she’d discovered she liked hi about sleeping with hiood reasons not to call hiood reason to call him

He would actually come She hit his nu, his voice low and calm as always "Garrison," he said

"Hi It’s Mallory"

He absorbed that inforotten his number, a conversation she absolutely didn’t want to have so she rushed on "I’m at the HSC," she said, "and my car won’t start, and I’hts aren’t working and--"

"Lock your doors I’ll be right there"

"Okay, thanks--" But he was already gone She slipped her phone into her pocket and put her head down on the steering wheel So tired…She thought about that and how her feet hurt She could really use a foot rub And a body rub She’d gotten a e once, last year for her birthday It’d been a present froer, orked at the Lucky Harbor B&B where there was a lovely day spa The e had been fantastic but Mallory wondered what it would be like to have a man rub his hands over her body

And not just any man, either

She knew exactly which one she wanted Ty She sighed again, picturing lying on her back on a deserted beach at sunset, Ty leaning over her in a pair of low-slung jeans and nothing else, his big hands all over her bikini-clad body

No, scratch that

No bikini And Ty in board shorts Yeah, board shorts that fell disturbingly low on his hips, his eyes creased in that way he had of showing his feelings without e, and she sighed dreamily

He was aroused She could feel hi Hard She s back, he flipped her over, face down on her towel, leaving her to gasp in shock, waiting breathlessly for hiled for h coroan He said her naer down her spine, then between her legs until she rithing with a ain, until she was oscillating her hps in sers He pushed a thigh between hers to spread her legs, and then pulled her up to her knees and entered her

She came hard, her cries shen she pressed her face to the forearht behind her, shuddering in pleasure as he collapsed on top of her--

A rap on herhad her jerking straight up and banging her head on her sun guard

Mouth quirking, Ty waited patiently while she fumbled to roll down the

"Hi," she said breathlessly "I was just…" God Drea?" he asked

Or that Which was far less e She nodded and swiped at her sweaty temple with her arm "Guess I’m tired"

"You look all flushed; you okay?"

She pressed her thighs together She wasit now"

She realized that not only had she slept through hi next to her, he’d popped both their hoods and had hooked her car up to a set of cables

Some nap At least she hadn’t screamed out his name She turned the key, and her car started

Ty turned and bent over her front end, his head buried beneath her hood Absolutely not noticing how very fine his ass looked from that position, she pushed out of the car and stood next to hi to need a new alternator sooner than later," he said

She stared into the engine coht be "Is that expensive?"

"Not for the part" He was still fiddling around "The labor’s expensive, but it shouldn’t be It’s an easy thing to replace"

"So you are aHe pulled out her dip stick and checked the oil "Always been pretty good with taking things apart and putting theain," he said

She could vouch for that A week ago, he’d certainly taken her apart and put her back together again The ease hich she’d coe attic still fueled her fantasies She’d had sex before, even soone off like that "I don’t think that was much of an answer," she said

He looked at her "You don’t think so?"

"No"

His mouth curved "Anyone ever tell you that you’re a little--"

"Stubborn? Deter?" She nodded "Yep Trust overn the same sort of stuff I did in the military"

"Stuff?" Her inner slut drooled over the sleek backthe material of his shirt taut as he replaced the dip stick "Like I’d-tell-you-but-I’d-have-to-kill-you stuff?"

He actually turned his head her way and s off a few ood She needed those brain cells