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The chimes that announced a customer’s entrance mixed with the musical notes of a set of wind chimes Roxanna lifted toward a hook on one of her displays She shot an absent glance over her shoulder as she said, “Sorry, but it’s closing—oh”

Her surprised gasp was punctuated by the discordant clanging of aze held his for a heart-stopping moment, then she quickly stooped to pick up the fallen merchandise

Loyal flipped the Open sign to Closed, turned the lock, and sloound through the shop displays toward her

“Hi,” he said

She hung up the chiister counter, her dark brows furroith her sideways glance “What are you doing here?”

The breathless tone of her voice sparked hot, vivid, replay snippets of the stables, and sent blood rushing below the waistband of his khakis She earing that earth-toned skirt from last weekend, the one that covered her fro was, now that he knehat she hid underneath, he wanted to sit her up on that counter, lift the material to her waist, and bury himself in her heat Then he’d take her upstairs so he could take his time and taste every inch of her body while she breathed his name over and over

Shit Noas hard again And, unfortunately, the moment he’d entered the shop, he realized “let’s do it a fewbetween us fizzles out” wasn’t really a plan after all

Honor?

??s coue him the past couple of days Had Roxanna really been upset when she left the other night, and if so, why?

She lances as he stopped with the counter between the akin to relief flickered across her expression

He narrowed his gaze at that glimpse of emotion Is that why she’d been upset—was she afraid of hiht be turned his stohten her, had he?

“Did you hire a new accountant yet?”

Her head jerked up, and she gaped at him “What? How did you know I—”

“That night you were drunk You coot married and left, and now your numbers don’t add up”

Color infused her cheeks “Oh”