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Cassie watched Tanner push up from the chair effortlessly. Oliver didn’t protest, but instead seemed to snuggle closer to his uncle. “He was restless,” Tanner explained and gently touched the baby’s head. “And he seems to like this.”

She smiled warmly. “Thank you for taking care of him for me while I was sick.”

Tanner met her gaze. “That’s what family is for, Cassie.”

Her throat tightened. Family. It had been so long since she’d thought she had anyone to call her family, besides her baby son. To have someone to rely upon … to need someone herself, was a different kind of feeling.

“How about I put him in his crib and then make you some tea?” Tanner suggested quietly.

Cassie nodded. “That would be good.”

He moved across the room and stood beside her. Cassie’s heart rolled over when she gazed into the sleeping face of her son and she touched Oliver’s head gently. She glanced up and saw Tanner watching her with a kind of blistering intensity, and the look made her insides quiver.

This was physical attraction … pure and simple.

An attraction she’d always been able to ignore. Until now.