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A year later, she’d given up a boring but lucrative teaching job at the dance institute to follow Mr Perfect to Reno A sh failures, to keep her vow and focus on the career

Still, it wasn’t the vow that had her sagging in relief over the near miss

What put the sexy hunk with the gorgeous dimples off-limits was one simple fact: he knew her brother

And anyone who knew any member of her family wasn’t anyone she wanted to know Even if he did have the good taste to admit that he’d deny a relationship with Phillip, too That was guy talk, his way of trying to charm her

“We’re here”

Mulling and just a few breaths away frolanced at the meter, then handed the driver the last of her cash and slid from the cab

Phillip was a SEAL?

Lara blinked, trying to take that in She’d known he was in the Navy He’d been at Annapolis when she’d run away No noncom status would suit a Banks, by God, nor would the heir apparent dare skip college Two birds, one stone, that was Phillip

A lot of people had been surprised that he’d joined the Navy Phillip wasn’t exactly the fighting type, the let’s-serve-our-country type or the gung-ho-sailor type But Lara had known better Their grandfather, great-grandfather and a fistful reats over the years had been naval officers for various countries, and he’d always been fascinated by the stories

So the Navy didn’t surprise her at all

But the SEALs? That was a straight-up shock

She tried to i heroic deeds, part of an elite team in the special forces But the picture just wouldn’t jell in her mind

Then she shook her head

What did it ht years And even then, they’d been strangers

One thing she did know, though, was that then or now, Phillip wanted nothing to do with her So whatever his buddy was up to, her brother hadn’t instigated it

The only thing worse than gorgeous, sexy guys wanting to lead her into teenda

Lara settled into her classroouy at the station next to her and the glare fro hand over the co

Nope