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"You guys call hih

"Either that, or Sleazebag Paul It’s hard to pick one, seeing as he’s both an ass and a sleaze We tend to alternate"

Shelby peered past Carson’s iliame had ended, becauseback their chairs and heading for the door A few approached the doorway, poking their heads in and thanking her for opening up the bakery She just smiled, waved and wondered where the hell Garrett had run off to Probably to find a woman as into kinky sex and threesomes

Too bad Because if he’d ever bothered to ask her, he ht be surprised to know that she was exactly that kind of woman Just because she’d never acted out any of her fantasies didn’toff," Carson was saying "But we thought we’d help you clean up a bit before we left Garrett took the beer bottles out to the recycling bin I ca so I could wipe down the tables"

She was genuinely touched "You guys don’t have to do that"

"It’s the least we could do You didn’t have to open the café up tonight but you did

Might as well repay you with some clean-up"

He shot her a crooked smile, and a flicker of heat sparked inside her belly Carson really was an attractiveshe’d barely noticed what any of his friends looked like, and for the first time, she actually took the time to look at Carson Scott, really look at him And she definitely liked what she saw Dirty blond hair, cut short but not short enough that he looked like all the crew cut boys alked around Coronado His eyes were blue, his features classically handsome, and he was as ripped as his friend Garrett Obviously you couldn’t be a Navy SEAL without possessing one of those hard, sleek bodies that never failed to ?" Carson teased "Damn, I knew I shouldn’t have eaten one of those cupcakes you brought out to us"

"No, nothing on your chin," she said, cheeks war hi, then walked back and handed it to hi not to stare at his ass, she trailed him into the café and watched as he efficiently wiped down all the tabletops Carson had just finished when Garrett returned, the chi as he walked inside

Shelby’s heart i jacks Dae tous," Garrett said, his voice slightly gruff

"No problee back toward the door, suddenly anxious for hiht she was vanilla, and ot the feeling a golden opportunity was staring her square in the eye That tonight would be her one chance to show him that she wasn’t the sweet freckle-faced prude he obviously thought her to be

"Well…good night," Garrett added

Their gazes locked, and she could swear the air hissed and crackled withthe crackling noise, but still…

She broke the eye contact, slowly glancing over at Carson, who’d dropped the rag on one of the tables and was ent voice inside her head caught her off-guard, but only for a second