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Fiona wrapped her arms around her waist and sat forward. “I won’t screw this up. And I’ll be whatever she needs me to be. There’s no question about me trying to replace her mother. But I can be her friend.”

“Yes, you can.”

She let out a breath and experienced a heady warmth low down. There was something in his expression which heightened her awareness of him on every level.

She pushed some words out. “So, I guess considering you’re her legal guardian, we should be friends, too.”

Another look, longer, hotter. Hot enough to raise her temperature a degree or two.

“Logically. But I get the sense that whatever’s going on here,” he said and flicked a hand in the air, “it’s got nothing to do with friendship.”

“I don’t think—”

“And everything to do with sex.”