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“Yeah, yeah,” she gru exciting about watching paint dry”

“Depends on the company”

Alexis uiling grin that he didn’t trust in the least but found extre that you would enjoy my company? The woman who nearly turned you from a rooster to a hen with one kick?”

“In spite of thatyeah”

Were they flirting? It felt like flirting And he liked it

Hell, he’d always been a sucker for the girl as just out of reach; she didn’t need tosexy, too

Erik’s advice rang in his head like a gong and he pulled back even though there was so about the sweet rack she was sporting

“You’re going to get me into trouble,” he said with a chuckle as he rose from his haunches “You know your brother has it in his head that you’re this fragile thing who hly” He waited a heartbeat, then asked with a sly grin, “What do you think about that?”

She irl and I don’t need my brother to run interference for me”

“That o behind a buddy’s back to get at his sister You knohat I mean?”

“That’s ad respect

“And why does it feel the opposite when you say it like that?”

She laughed and the sound tickled his bones like fingertips dancing down his vertebrae “I told you, you don’t have to stay I’ll be fine”

“I gave your brotheranywhere”

There was the slightest, most minute, almost indiscernible hitch in her breath, and that sexy little sound almost caused an i to be the hardest test of his life For crying out loud, they’d only justbetween the at hi to have a helluva ti to his word