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"It also couesthouse behind my pool That’s where a couple of our nannies have stayed, though not our last one; she was married It’s only seven hundred and fifty square feet, but it’s furnished"

Grace shook her head, but the truth was, he’d had her at free She’d been staying at the local B&B, and loving it The three sisters who ran the place, Tara, Maddie, and Chloe, had been lovely, but the B&B wasn’t exactly bank-account friendly "I’ll have more job interviews this week" Hopefully

"We can work that out," he said

She nodded, but she was thinking that he s, even better than chocolate So much so that she wanted to bite him

And was he suddenly closer? She leaned her head back on the door to look up at him, into those warm, mocha eyes Yeah, he was closer She could actually bite hiood "There’s no family to help you?" She knew his dad had passed away, but that was all she knew "What about your s? Or…Toby’s one," he said "And I have no other siblings As for Toby’s mom, she’s not available"

His face was an iuess his thoughts, though--the guy was in a rough spot with no support syste but a sucker, but there was so his kid, his sister, and an entirehe could to make it all work "Okay," she said softly "I’uesthouse; I’ll let you know But I’ll take care of Toby for the week" She expected hie was the sheer expanse of his chest

"There’s one last thing," he said

She wondered if he looked as good without his clothes "What?"

"That ship sailed?" he asked, repeating her earlier words to Anna

Again she tilted her head up "I just meant we’ve been there, done that We already kissed, reaze heated Yeah, he remembered

"And it was…fine"

He’d probably shaved thatin And his eyes Fatho away of himself or his secrets "The kiss was…fine," he repeated, eyes narrowed

"Well, yeah" Fine plus a times infinity

He just looked at her

"Okay," she adainst the door "So it was a little better than fine But I’uy like you"

"Like me," he said slowly, as if the words didn’t quite compute any more easily than "fine" had

And probably they didn’t Look at him He could have che to be in Lucky Harborfor…fun"

"Fun"

"Yeah It’s a new thing I’"

"And you think I’m not," he said with a hint of disbelief, "fun"

"It’s nothing personal"

"Hmm" He took a step toward her, and since there was already no place to go, she found herself once again sandwiched between the door and his deliciously hard body His hands went to her hips, where they squeezed lightly and then slid up her sides, past her ribs, to her arot to her throat and cupped her face, her bones had gone AWOL

"What are you doing?" sheyou how much fun I can be"

Oh boy Just his husky whisper sent a shiver down her spine, the sort of shiver a woet for a man she didn’t want to be attracted to And then her body strained a little closer to him

Bad body!

Josh’s eyesthe anticipation, along with the heat working her from the inside out

"Still think I’m not fun?" he asked softly

"You’re not" She sed hard "You’re…"

He quirked a brow

Hot and sexy, and da-down-for-the-count kind of trouble Ti, she decided And she would In just a minute…

"Say it, Grace"

"Okay, so maybe you’re a little fun," she ad it with his tongue, then stroked and teased her with his mouth until she let out a helpless murmur of arousal and fisted her hands in his shirt

His eyes were heavy-lidded and sexy when he pulled back "Bullshit, a little fun" His aze, she realized she was still gripping his shirt She forced herself to sers over the wrinkles she’d left "Fine You’re a barrel of fun Happy now?"

"Getting there" His eyes were dark with lust and focused on hers, his hands on her back, fingers stroking her through the thin material of her dress When he lowered his head, he did it slowly, giving her plenty of time to turn away