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Mason rolled his eyes "Oh, you did not just say that"

"I’er than either of you"

"You’re the head honcho, bro, but that don’tsometimes"

"Name a tiainst you on this one Dillon’s developed a really strong gift with his hunting, too So that’s three of us who don’t sense anything wrong with Sunny"

Mason’s boyfriend, Nikos, caht then, and Mace’s eyes lit up when he saw that Nik had arrived "Hey, you knoork a ave hilance as Mace handed over the directions, and it was clear that Mason had already halfway forgotten his conversation with Ja to be around people who had recently fallen in love, and Ja about how passion blinded people to plain good sense

Wait That was it He could use that very thing against Sunny Get her guard down, then learn the truth She’d responded to hih she’d tried to knock his He’d seen the lust and arousal flare in her eyes, and he’d s off her skin, too

Coet much, much closer to the woain, ait at all? What rong with enacting his seduction plan today with the power of a few aritas?

Chapter Three

"Think you can hide froel stepped onto the upstairs balcony, where Sunny had been sitting for a fewsounds of the creek and marsh

For the end of Deceht breeze fro

And, yes, she had been co Jamie for hours, the balcony only her latest effort in that battle He was too hot, too sexy, and ay too dangerous That, and he’dto pursue her ever since brunch The long afternoon had stretched into early evening, with the holidays clearlyeveryone relaxed Around three parita machine he’d received as a Christmas present fro a little bit toasty

Ja the last of his arita "You didn’t answer me, Sunny" He propped his booted feet up on the balcony railing, tilting his chair back onto two legs in a relaxed, sexy posture "You’ve been avoiding me," he observed "Why?"

"Because you’re a bad boy and I know your kind" She shifted in her own chair, knowing she should leave, yet finding that she lacked the will to do so

"What happened to rin

She rolled her eyes "You just proved antly"

He smiled at her, and for once it didn’t see

And it absolutely limpse of the real Jaly than any of his flirtation or innuendo ever could There was genuine sweetness there She sensed that he hid it frouarded his heart just as vigilantly

After a long azes were locked, neither able to look away or stop s in the pocket of his deni it

"Youwith the cigar

She shook her head and rose to her feet "I was just about to go inside anyway"

As she started to walk past hi her close against hier in his tone, but as she looked down into his light green eyes, there was a heap more flirtation

"I have plans for us," he said, and before she could blink, he reached out and ran one hand along her upper thigh Slowly he stroked her there, his touch so lingering and sensual that her eyes watered "Yep, you’re as good as I thought you’d be," he whispered throatily "Better"

She should’ve shoved hihtailed it to the other side of the veranda Instead, she stoodher skin practically burn as he caressed her leg again, a little higher