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Tony's ent to get her another nonalcoholic beer and Julie stared into the fire pit, amazed at how quickly her life had done a co an oversized Outlaeatshirt to ward off the slight chill, getting hot and tingly thinking about a football star's big muscles

"Letabout," Ty whispered into her ear and her nipples immediately went hard

"You like kids, don't you?"

He sat down next to her and took a swig fro you'd say"

She grinned, lowered her voice "Woreat with kids are sexy"

He grinned back "Now that's more like it"

Tony's grandkids were chasing each other around the laater guns, screairl pleaded and he put down his soda and jogged over

Even five-year-olds fell for Ty He was utterly irresistible to every oing to enjoy every last bit of pleasure he offered

"Want to see one of the s in the world?" Ty asked as they left Tony's front porch "I'd love to," she said

Ty reached for her hand and led her down Tony's long, redwood-lined driveway On the way to the barbecue, she realized that Tony had built his house on property adjoining the camp

"Lucky bastard, getting to live down the road from a football field"

Julie pressed her lips together She wasn't going to offer an unsolicited opinion Everything was going so well between them, and it wasn't her place to tell him how to live his life He had a fantastic hborhoods He was already happy

Without her

Ty turned his head and looked at her, his features lit by the ht

"You want to say so, you should say it"

"Your house is beautiful," she began and he held up a hand

"Stop right there You don't need to o Hell, you're one of the few people who hasn't told ot an opinion, I'd like to hear it"

Julie licked her lips, gripping his hand tighter She took a deep breath She never spoke out of turn, never said anything a client didn't want to hear, not unless she reworked it until it was totally palatable

"Have you ever thought about ? I mean, if you want to be somewhere more like this?"

He was quiet for a long o she'd gone out of her way to publicly insult his

"When I was a kid, I used to drea to have I'd ride over the Golden Gate Bridge and tool around Seacliff onthe houses in order of which ones I'd buy"

She sot what you wanted"

"The first year I lived there was all one big party It's a great house"

"A," she echoed

"But I'es"

She turned to look at hireed with her And what did he es?

They were standing on the edge of a football field she hadn't yet seen with stadiuhts and bleachers Ty walked over to a rass turned bright green beneath the powerful lights

Julie felt like they were standing in a private wonderland

"See what I mean?" T

y said and she shot a glance at him

He was facing the empty field with a look on his face that spoke volumes Usually, he kept his true e their lovelimpses of another Ty He always had such an easiness about him, but now in addition to his usual relaxed, confident stance, she saw joy too

"I never thought I'd say this about a football field," she said, "but it is pretty a"

"Co her forward

"I've only seen one football game before in my whole life," she admitted "On TV This January When you won the Super Bowl"