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Rourke joined Hunter and Meara as the others left the house "I’ve got to run by the newspaper office and leave off soht, Meara?"

Meara nodded "He says four of his ht like to vacation here" She cast Hunter an interested look

He grunted

She stood straighter and folded her arh, Tanner, the one he mentioned most, prefers redheads"

Hunter took his eyes off Devlyn "He’s not coave him a devilish smirk "Uncle Basil called and said he’d heard about our bad storh He wanted to know if you took care of Tessa"

"Eliured once the two of you met, you’d keep her safe Not like he could"

Hunter shook his head "Uncle Basil could have been less cryptic" He yanked open the back door and headed for Tessa and Devlyn

Devlyn stepped back, a knowing look on his face, acknowledging the possessive alpha male ants another to stay clear, no old," Tessa said, her face beareatest treasure of all is finding fa your mate" She reached to take Hunter into her arms, but he moved to do so first

And with one fell swoop, he lifted her in his arht leaves soon," Hunter said over his shoulder to a bemused Devlyn "Better not miss it And by the way, if your cousins are alphas, they’re welcome to stay at our resort All except for Tanner"

A sed a dark chuckle

"Why not Tanner?" Tessa asked

"He likes redheads"

Tessa said her good-byes to Devlyn, although Hunter hovered nearby, one, the house was nice and quiet--time to show Tessa how important she was to Hunter

She headed for the heater and turned it on No response

She rubbed her arht switch "Electricity’s working" He opened the closet and checked the circuit breaker "Circuit breaker’s tripped" He flipped it back, but as soon as Tessa tried the heater again, it tripped the circuit breaker Hunter growled "The brothers Gri electricians" Hunter lifted Tessa into his arms and stalked toward the bedrooetat least"

His chuckle was deep and dark and silkily seductive "In your dreams, sweet Tessa In your dreams"

The End