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“You startled me!”

Reaching for the bottle of wine, Rex smiled easily “I try to do what I can to keep a woman on her toes”

“H they could to keep a woman on her back”

“Come on, Lucy Let’s move past this What’d you say we pick up where we left off when things were good between us?”

Lucy shook her head, taking in the man before her Dear God, when had Rex McDavid turned into a walking billboard for country sex? Dressed in a fitted white shirt, white-washed deniht

His eyes followed hers as her gaze settled on the here everything went to hell and betrayal—along with life lessons—unfolded “I’m not the same man, Lucy”

“Mrs Carpenter invited ht her a photo albuht froht she’d like to have some of these pictures of you and Luke There are dozens, all laminated and dated I don’t knohy I kept so many, but here they are”

The reason she owned such an assortes was pretty clear She’d grown up with the McDavids, and froirl—so Luke used to call her—she’d been obsessed

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?You look beautiful,” Rex re a step toward her and apparently uninterested in scrapbooks and bottled alcohol “I’d forgotten how sexy you are”

His voice was low, his eyes hooded, and his steps were deliberate as he inched closer, taking a cowboy’s sweet time Oh yes, Rex McDavid’s notions were clear

He planned to claim her He wanted to seduce her There wasn’t a question in Lucy’sher

She wasn’t going to stop hie him

Rex couldn’t i when she dressed for dinner Wearing a short white skirt and silky red tank, she looked like a seductress dressed deliberately for a hot suht Her black hair swept across shapely shoulders, and those enorh cheekbones and full lipsas he’d remembered

“Mrs Carpenter cooked enough food for a large reunion Luke and I thought otten married and had a few dozen kids”