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Her protective instincts perked up “Hey, he's a good g

uy Mostly He'd been in trouble in the past, but Cy cleaned up his act a few years ago”

“So where is he now?”

Her brain went into overdrive, searching for a plausible location “Northern California He took a job with a traveling construction crew” That was the cover story he'd been telling their parents

“So you're stuck holding the bag”

Noas her turn to shrug “Yeah” Ti this back to the treasure because as much as she didn't want his help, she needed it “I need your help to find the treasure If ork together, we can split it down the h to cover Cy's debt”

He shoved his hands in his pockets “You're still not telling ”

Snips had been clear about the consequences of telling the truth Asher parents “I can't”

“Then it looks like we don't have anything left to talk about”

Judging by his clenched jaw, the smartest move would be to admit a tee hisRebecca's Bounty She reached past him to retrieve her jacket froht her lips within kissing distance of hislevel She paused, hovering near hi of their own volition as she stared at his s he could do—all he had done—with his mouth flashed in her ible as an invisible wire Her clit twitched with need and she squeezed her thighs together

The slight olden hazel eyes and pulled back

Sam turned away from her, walked over to theand stared out at the snow-covered quad The afternoon sun caught the reddish highlights in his hair “I spent a su every inch of McPherson's Bluff, coraphs”

“And you think you're infallible, is that it?”

In an instant, a visible sign of pain was gone, replaced with a blank mask “You don't need to know about me”

“I've read the diary Rebecca didn't lie It's out there and I'rabbed the notepad on his desk and one of his neatly arranged pens, then scrawled the artist colony's main number The notepad landed with a thwack on his ee your mind”