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"You didn't say anything about trying to get in his pants!"

"Duh" He rolled his eyes "What do you think all of those wo to do to me?"

"It looks like you're trying to get into their pants, not the other way around"

He shrugged "Sometimes I am But not as often as you'd think"

Which was true He tended to be a et and women just threw and threw and threw theht

Ty had never really wanted any one woman in particular--except for this one Only Julie He'd wanted her when he was eighteen, and he wanted her now

"Try again," he said in histo help," she argued

"I'ht?"

She chewed on that for a while He liked watching her face while her ot to be in control of absolutely everything, and when her white teeth came out to bite her lower lip she was sexier than any skimpily dressed model had ever been

"You're definitely a dog"

He was just going to let that one go "So it's tih"

She glared at hi this little exercise with one of my assistants is because I can't trust you to behave with any of them"

"Their loss," he said "I'et my pants off"

Sighing in resignation, she fluttered her eyelids and said in a high-pitched baby voice, "Oh Ty, you're just h I just slept with a bunch of your teaht"

He couldn't help laughing

More eyelid batting "I hope this doesn't co, but would you ave you a teensy-weensy little kiss and let my friend take a picture of it so that everyone will believe reat Ty Calhoun?"

Julie's parody was hitting a little too close to home How many women had he slept ho actually did talk like this, who had the brain power of an ant?

A little ame"

Julie cah at me"

He held his hands up "Did I laugh?"

"No, but if I' the straight man You need to play yourself"

"Now you're going to tell ht, I already know there's no point in trying to stop you Who am I?"

She waved her hand in the air "You're the obviously jaded yet horny sports star You only think about your own needs, but you're er after a good game to celebrate"

Ty couldn't think of the last ti to his face

"You really believe that's how I am, don't you?"

She frowned, possibly noticing for the first tis with her blunt assessments

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and all that

"It's not just you, Ty All sports stars are exactly the same"

Ty wanted to disagree, wanted to tell her about all the guys he kneho spentcare of their faed than they did their own health He wanted to tell her that his friend Tiotten out on that field every day for ten years as a defensive tackle and let the other team beat his body all to hell, out of sheer desperation to help his whole extended family rise up out of the trash heap of a town they'd been living in