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She looked at Devlin, seeing hi at me like that?"

"Like what?"

"Like you’re about to have uess because I find the fact that you can do your own renovations very sexy"

He laughed, raised his brows, and set the piece of paneling down "Well, hell, lady," he said, reaching out and grabbing her around the waist, tugging her closer "If I’d a known that, I’d a shown youand slow and deliberate, and she felt the hu in her veins When the kiss ended, she leaned back in his arms and smiled coyly "I wish I’d known you had this talent a few o I could have used your help"

"Yeah? Why?"

She disentangled fro to bring Cal and the house in Su cypress wood paneling into the back roo a lovely lowcountry feel The back wall had been replaced with a long wall of s overlooking theout over the wide swath of waving grass and the Intracoastal glistening in the sunlight

"This view never gets old"

Devlin followed her to the s and stood beside her "That’s because it’s always changing Folks from off who come to buy alant the ocean views I can find that, too But it’s the wetlands that shows the change of scenery The reen in the sureening again in the spring"

He turned his head and looked at her, his gaze serious "Why could you have used ned, and looked up at him "I have to put ht it as a fixer-upper, only we never did the fixing-up There was never thethe house on the et done has to get done in a hurry"

"So, you’re trying to flip the house"

"Not even We’re just trying to get it in decent enough shape to sell it Cal wants to spend money we don’t have, and I want to sell it as is He won, of course"

"Why of course?"

"Because whenever it’s an issue of money, Cal makes the decision"

"Even when the outcome affects your financial situation?"

Dora moved to the other side of the roo installed

"Cal is not as concerned about h "He’s an ass"

"Yes, well" Dora looked closely at the wood trim of the mantel She heard Devlin draw closer

"How can I help?"