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So dented in Matt’s chest, a foundation treant bones of her wrist Hold her hand

Ruthlessly, he looked around the roo the chill that lived inside of him

Do not get attached to these women, he told himself

“Thank you,” Savannah said and he swung around to look at her, made speechless for a moment by her beauty, by the look in her eyes “For what you said to those officers”

There was sohtly different in her, a fierceness transforone on in a dark house His conscience, quiet for so long, , woke up

Don’t do this, he thought Don’t look at me like that Don’t let me in, I’m only here to hurt you

“No problem,” he said

“Who are you?” a s him the once-over

Matt’s lip lifted at the quicksilver change in topics “My naarden”

Katie’s eyes narrowed and she harruirl could, which, actually, was pretty damn skeptical

“He’s going to be staying here In the sleeping porch At night,” Margot said, and she ht as well have shot off a cannon into the silent room

CHAPTER FOUR

SAVANNAH LOOKED DUMBSTRUCK She blinked Blinked again Matt resisted taking a step back, away from her

“I’m sorry?” she finally said

“He’s staying,” Margot repeated, showing a whole lot of that steel under her nolia exterior “I know, I know” She waved her hands in Savannah’s face as it grew stormier by the second “You told him to stay at the Inn, but I told hi porch and frankly, after what’s happened, I think it’s a daood idea to have a man around here”

“What?” Savannah cried “This is not the Wild West, Margot”