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Molly Devaney needed a hero

She could think of no other way to solve her dilemma

She’d been tossing and turning at night for the past teeks, obsessing over what she’d done, wishing and praying and hoping she could figure out how to fix things and fix them fast

It had taken fifteen days and fifteen hellish nights to come to the conclusion that she needed some help—and pronto—and there was only one man who could save the day, just like he’d previously saved her on plenty of other days

Her hero of all times, ever since she was three and he was six, and Molly and her sister, Kate, recently orphaned, had ended up living with his rich and wonderful family in their San Antonio mansion

Julian John Gage

Okay The guy was definitely no saint He was a ladies’ man down to his very sexy bones He could have any woman he wanted, in any way he preferred, at any time he felt like, and the stupid meathead knew this Which meant he was determined to sample them all

It really rankled her sometimes

But while he was an incorrigible rake with the ladies, a handful to the press due to his position as head of PR for the San Antonio Daily, a problem to his brothers and a bane to his ownshort of the boreatest friend, the reason she’d never really found a man until now and the only person on this earth ould be honest enough to tell her how to seduce his hardheaded, annoying older brother

The problem noas that Molly could’ve found a better ti into his aparthtest idea But then she was losing precious tiently needed Garrett, his older brother, to realize he loved her before she all but died from the misery of it all

Now, if only Julian would stop staring at her as if she’d lost it big-ti for the past couple of minutes, ever since she’d blurted out her plans

The guy just stood there, easily the nificent work of art in his flawless contemporary aparthtly ajar

“I can’t have heard right” When at last he spoke, his huskyvoice was laden with incredulousness “Did you just ask me to help you seduce my own brother?”

Molly stopped pacing around the coffee table and, all of a sudden, she felt very much like a tramp “Well…I didn’t actually say seduce Did I?”

An aard silence followed as they both thought back to five o Julian lifted a lone eyebrow “You didn’t?”

Molly sighed She couldn’t reue-tied when the living sculptur