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Brant breathed a sigh of relief when the bathroo day! He was about ready to cli ti had been hell The ache in his crotch was approaching near epic levels No matter how many ti and couldn’t happen again, his body didn’t see bullets with a near constant hard-on His usual control had deserted hi in heat Hell, he was afraid he would be huh

He had followed her cue and acted like nothing had happened, but it was killing hi the subject was the fear that she would cut hi was no myth No man wanted to be rejected or made to feel he didn’tfro to have what he considered a knock-your-head-off sexual experience and then find out that the other person didn’t seem anywhere near as awed He wasn’t vain, but he had never had any co with her? He wasn’t an inexperienced schoolboy; he knew she had come He still had the marks on his shoulders to prove it So why the indifference?

Except shouldn’t he be happy that things hadn’t gotten complicated? Out of nowhere, he reiven his brother when he had been tied up in knots over a woman at as now his wife: Never shit where you sleep or work; it always turns out badly Well, apparently that applied only to his had turned out fine for Declan, Jason, Gray and Nick Hell, he was the only one having a problem with it

He decided to skip the cold shower that he so desperately needed since Ee of clothes E downstairs andin the roo over her firrabbed a pair of cargo shorts and a University of South Carolina T-shirt They were both a little wrinkled but it couldn’t be helped He refused to give Eardless of what she said, he could do casual He quickly changed, pulling on a pair of Nike flip-flops that he usually threw on after a shower He heard the water stop in the bathroom and took off at top speed He couldn’t handle any ht now

He made it down the stairs to the front door Freedom was but a few steps ahen the door handle beneath his hands started turning without his help Uh-oh He stepped back in surprise just as a group of woroup stopped mere inches away frohtly across her rather large chest that said SMUT-LOVING WENCHES DO IT ALL NIGHT, and then in s to sort that out in histhat sounded suspiciously like a histle and said, "Ladies, we have just hit pay dirt Look at this yumroup of women spread out and looked hi, but nothing see objectified, and he had to adreat Instead, he wanted to run back upstairs and hide behind Emma Surely, she had clothes on by now "Erhello," he stuttered

Just as he was trying to figure out an escape path, Elad to see her Her enthusiasm and ability to jump from one subject to the next in the blink of an eye was a little scary, but he liked her Emma’s father was a lucky man because Kat Davis was a knockout She reminded him a lot of the actress Andie MacDowell He had noticed in the airport that Ely resembled her mother and, in his book, that made her lucky Mother Nature definitely had a soft spot for the Davis woh his "Down, girls Don’t scare the poor hter’s new boyfriend who I was telling you about Isn’t he delish?"

Delish? Good grief, he had at least ten wo at him now as if he were a pri proudly on "Maybe I should run back upstairs and check on Emma"

As he turned tobeside hiirls" Then turning toward the group, she offered theht smile "Brant and I can’t wait to sit in on your book clubabout since Moave her a forced ss of murderous intent "You know, since there are no other roup, maybe we should sit this one out, dear I wouldn’t want to impose" As everyone rushed to assure hiroup, he kneas screwed How bad could discussing soray be? He was relieved that the name indicated that it wasn’t any type of romance book God, that was a relief

Everyone fell in line behind Kat as she led them out the patio doors off the kitchen Brant took a deep breath, s scents of the grill Beside him, Emma suddenly squealed and flew across the patio into a man’s arms "Daddy!"

"My Emmie!" Emma’s father was a tall,to gray at the tips It was obvious from his tanned skin that he spent a lot of ti him once that her dad was a builder and his athletic frame supported that Her father kept one ar forward to extend his other hand to him "I’m Ken Davis, father to this handful"

Brant tried to keep a blank expression as he thought that his interpretation of "handful" and Emma’s father’s where she was concerned were probably very different "Nice to meet you, Ken, I’m Brant Stone, Eme Of course, what else was there? Lover? Yeah, that would go over ith her daddy "This is a beautiful place you have here Did you build this house?"