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She didn’t look, but felt Gavin’s gaze on her Instead, she lifted her gaze to Ty "Stop that"

"You don’t want et jealous"

"No, I don’t Gavin is a client"

"So?"

"So, I keep enerous lips lifted as he raised his glass and took a drink "Apparently not"

"You’re a s son of a bitch, you know that?"

"So I’ve been told But your boyfriend over there doesn’t care that I’ attention to you"

"He’s not ave up, happy when the food arrived and her argu to her, which he did--rather incessantly throughout dinner And since she’d found his, she chalked it up to hi to irritate Gavin

The competitive nature of men and its relationship to women was one she’d never be able to understand Add men in sports to the equation, and the co but haul her onto his lap, and only because he didto eat his steak

Gavin, on the other hand, seeaged in conversation, so maybe Ty was totally off base, because not once did Elizabeth see Gavin glancing her way

"He’s not even looking atat hi Trust ot this under control I knohen to turn up the heat And you knoon’t mind if you want to use me to make your boy toy jealous"

Trust him? Ha At this point she’d like to kick hih dinner and the limo ride back to the stadium, thanked Clyde and Helen when they dropped her off at her car, declined Ty’s offer to accompany her and make sure she was safely escorted back to her condo She opened her car door, slid in, and laid her head against the steering wheel

What an epic disaster She hadn’t expected to run into Gavin tonight when she’d brought Ty to the ga Ty into the owner’s box would be a piece of cake They’d watch the game, slip out, and Gavin would have never known she was there

Except his SUV was rolling toward her right now

No She had nothing to say to hiht turn, and headed for the ballpark exit, Gavin’s headlights right behind her She pulled out of the park, conscious of hihway

Okay, so she knew he’d take the saht behind her the entire time Surely he didn’t intend to follow her, did he? What did they possibly have to say to each other? Unless he was trying to find out if she had a tryst with Ty?

A tryst? She laughed out loud

Yeah, and you watch tooridiculous If Gavin was at all interested in what she was doing or who she was seeing, he’d have called her after she abruptly left his beach house a feeeks ago

He hadn’t Whichthe hurt, she took the highway exit

So did he

Butterflies took up residence in her stomach and stayed there as she pulled into her driveway

Gavin didn’t, instead driving past her condo entrance as she got out She waited, wondering if he was going to pull up to the security gate

He didn’t She watched hihway, headed in the direction of his house

Well, son of a bitch

FOURTEEN

ELIZABETH WATCHED GAVIN’S CAR DISAPPEAR

What the hell had that been all about? Was he just fucking with her, trying to freak her out?

She went inside, checked her mail, then tossed it on the kitchen table She walked back and forth in front of her living room , certain at any rabbed her keys, got in her car and headed out onto the highway

By the time she’d made it out to the dark road where Gavin lived, she had second thoughts What the hell was she doing? What was her plan? To knock on his door and ask him why he’d followed her? She could have called hi driveway to Castle Grayskull The i two-story dark brick behe trees that didn’t see with vines crawling up the front and sides of the exterior

She shuddered, hating this house and its isolation She had no idea why Gavin liked this place It was a o and showed it to her, she’d pronounced it the house of a vahed at her He’d probably laugh at her again tonight when she knocked on his door, affronted that he’d followed her

Tough They had a few things to get straight

As she pulled in front of the house and turned the ignition off, she almost decided to turn around and head back to her place With a sigh of resignation and just enough righteous indignation left to see this through, she got out, smoothed her skirt, and oyle knocker and rapped three ti froht out of a horror movie

The door opened--with a creak, no less--and Gavin stood there, a surprised, wide-eyed look on his face She helped herself to a scan of the rest of him, since he wore no shirt and a pair of ratty sweats, and he was barefoot Everything that was female about her went into overdrive, and she had to resist the urge to leap into his ar here?"

"Followed you, just like you followed ed and opened the door wide "Come on in, since you’re here"

She stepped inside, shadows flicking theirfrom the wall sconces in the entryway It was cold in this place She grabbed her jacket and pulled it tighter around her and followed Gavin into the living rooundy paint on the walls only added to the opposing atloomy in this place"

His lips curled "I like this house"