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e—aka Julian—had opened the door, gloriously bare-chested and wearing only a pair of low-slung drawstring linen paja and sheer, in fact, that Molly could clearlyjust under Julian’s flat, bronzed navel, a tidbit which was playing havoc with her mind since she’d never seen a man partly naked before

Plus, Julian was not just any er brother

The hotter one

Good thing their friendship made Molly immune

“Okay, maybe I did say that, I can’t reet back on track “It’s only that I’ve just realized I need to do soood I need to get him, Julian And you’re the expert seducer, so I need you to tell me what to do”

His eyes—green like the leaves of the oaks outside—flared slightly in concern “Look, Molls I don’t quite kno to explain this to you, so let rew up together My brothers and I saw you in diapers There’s no way Garrett will ever look at you and see anything else but a little sister, the key words here being little and sister”

“All right, so it’s too late to do anything about the Paet it, but I have solid reasons to believe Garrett’s feelings toward ed! I mean, has he ever even said he only thinks of me as a little sister, Julian? I’rown up to be quite a sophisticated and sexy lady” With really nice breasts that he quite happily fondled at the ly

But Julian regarded her attire—certainly not one of her best outfits, she’d grant him that—with a look that was the opposite of thrilled

“Your sister, Kate, is sophisticated and sexy But you?” He stared pointedly at her boho skirt and paint-splattered tank top, then plunged his hand through his sun-streaked hair as though supremely frustrated “God, Molls, have you stopped by a mirror recently? You look like you’ve been smacked, kicked, then put for a spin inside a blender”

“Julian John Gage!” Molly gasped, so genuinely hurt her heart constricted “My next New York solo exhibit happens to be in four weeks—I don’t have tiiving me crap about my work clothes when you stand there half nak—”

A door slammed shut in the depths of the apartment, and Molly whirled around with a scowl, ready to keep shouting But she spotted so out of the corner of her eye and in that instant, she lost all power of speech That someone was, of course, a woman

The leggiest, blondest blonde Molly had ever seen was currently stepping out of Julian’s bedroo a pair of crimson stilettos and one of Julian’s button-down shirts, which seemed to barely contain as easily a set of enorirls suddenly shrink before her eyes

Now that woman looked as if she’d been inside a blender But at a really marvelous speed Molly wished she could pull off that tumbled look so well

“I have to go,” the mystery woman told Julian sultrily from afar “I left my nun and puckered her lips “It was really nicea shirt? My dress didn’t seele, and when Julian reracefully crossed the room to leave

The instant the elevator doors shut behind her, Molly’s gaze jerked back to Julian “Seriously?” Annoyance flared through her with such force that she stalked forward and shoved his rigid shoulder That womanizer! “Seriously, Julian? Do you have to sleep with every woman you meet?”

She shoved hied aswould