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Just for a moment she would have sworn she saw something flash behind those eyes—something that could have been pain.

“What’s that expression about giving a dog a bad name?”

Without seeming to move at all, suddenly Tye had lessened the distance between them to no more than a few inches. Behind her, Susannah felt the hard edge of the counter pressing into her back.

“Give a dog a bad name and he’ll bite?” she ventured.

“That’s it.” He bent his head, obliterating the last of her precious buffer zone. “You can call me off anytime, Suze,” he said, his tone velvety. “But maybe you don’t want to. Maybe after a lifetime of putting the devil behind you, just this once you’d like to be tempted….”