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“I knew places like this existed, but this is the first time I’ve ever been inside one of these cabins,” she said, taking the sweatpants, pullover, and T-shirt he handed her “It’s gorgeous, and I’ll be sure to have a good look at everything in the aze locked with his “Before we leave”
He flicked on a tight sreat shower”
Piper growled quietly to herself, sounding not unlike the miserable cat, as she peeled off her daer to leave in the arments on the tiled floor So, okay, Matt DeLeo had possibly saved her life, but that didn’t iven her a roof over her head for the night and fed her entles considered
“You are a heel,” she muttered to herself and turned the shower on full blast
Matt yawned and stretched as she reached the bottom step of the stairs after her shower “I’m beat You must be, too”
“I feel half dead, but so rin The least she could do was try and be nice, since none of this was his fault But being brittle was her instinctive way of denying the attraction she felt toward hi him knoas hotter than Sanibel in July “And is there under floor heating in here? The wood feels great on my bare feet”
He nodded and picked up a beer bottle from the low side table next to a squashy red sofa “I needed a drink to settle , but I rened an innocent look “I don’t re up the tapas bar”
“You knohat I e of this situation, and would you let o”
“And ould you want to take advantage of h “You’re on Forbes’ most wanted bachelor list, why the hell would you want to choose h standards, especially ory?”
“I could eat reat that I have three freezers stocked with gourmet food and TV dinners then, huh?”
“Seriously?”
“Three is ein the world right now and uest”
She grinned “I don’t want lobster”
“Too bad, there’s bound to be a ton of it That’s one of the reasons the rent on this place is so high”
She tugged at an earlobe as she considered the challenge and was tenawing in her story to peel crustaceans froer, sweet potato fries, Jack Daniels barbeque sauce, and jalapenos on the side”
He chuckled “You want a stack of onion rings with that?”