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Fay smiled, warm and relieved.

As if getting him to come inside the bed-and-breakfast was some sort of personal victory... Glad he could help her put a check in the win column.

“Thank you,” she said. A car drove past, the driver giving them a friendly beep of the horn. She waved without looking away from Zach. “I promise to do everything in my power to make your stay with us pleasant.”

He thought again of how pretty she’d looked sitting in the sunshine. How good she smelled. How long it had been since he’d felt a woman’s soft skin. How long since a woman had touched him in a nonplatonic, nonmedical or nontherapeutic way.

A long time. A long, long time.

Yeah. Probably not what she meant by making things pleasant.

“I’ll just check out the room,” he told her, his voice gruffer than he’d intended. Inappropriate thoughts would do that. Especially ones of him rolling around on the front yard of a residential street on a bright, sunny day with a woman who, moments before, had hauled her screaming kid inside. “No promises I’ll be staying.”