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of is Leon Durham.”
    “The baseball player?” he asked, as if he really couldn’t believe it.
    “Yeah. He played first base. Talented player but unfortunately, there was the time he let a ball roll through his legs.”
    “In 1984. Cubs versus Padres,” he said. “Padres went on to win.” He paused. “How the hell do you know these things?”
    She had no idea. It was just there.
    It was horribly frightening. She had men chasing after her and all she had a grasp on was useless baseball facts. “Well, Mr. Hollister, it appears that I continue to be in your debt.” She looked toward the door, to give him the hint.
    “You can start paying up right now,” he said.
    What? He couldn’t be suggesting...that, could he? “It’s time for you to leave,” she said more sternly.
    “Nope.” He lay back on the pillow, stretched his long legs out and kicked off his boots. He folded his arms across his chest and closed his eyes.
    “You can’t stay here,” she said, louder and with more of a shrill than she expected.
    He opened one eye. “I’m tired. I’ve lost the better part of the evening helping you. Now, I don’t care if you want to sit in that chair all night or if you decide to stretch out next to me, but I’m getting some sleep. I suggest you do the same.”
    “But...”
    “Your virtue is safe with me. I don’t date married women and I certainly don’t sleep with them. And,” he said, “don’t get any ideas of rubbing that shampoo you’ve got cupped in your hands in my eyes. That would just piss me off.”
    She had never been so furious. Or so grateful. It was preposterous that he was bulldozing his way into her room but there was something about him that, quite frankly, made her feel safe.
    She needed sleep and she didn’t intend to do it in this chair. She got up, went into the bathroom to wash her hands and came back. “You don’t happen to have a nail file, do you?”
    He lowered his chin. “Do I look like I file my nails?” he asked, his tone low.
    “Not really. I thought you were the Abominable Snowman earlier,” she added. “And I guess he probably doesn’t file his nails either,” she finished weakly.
    He laughed. It was the first time she’d heard him do that. It was nice.
    He got off the bed, rummaged in the duffel bag that he’d tossed on the floor and came out with a small plastic box. He opened it and tossed a pair of clippers her direction. “Will these work?”
    “Yes.” She was so grateful to be able to fix her poor nails that she quickly started clipping. She put the discarded nails in a pile and, when she was finished, dumped them in the wastebasket in the corner of the room, on top of the horrible dress.
    “You really messed up your hands,” he said. “How did you do that?”
    She was ready for the question. Had anticipated it while she was clipping. Felt good that she was functioning at a level where her brain was working again. “Bridal shower,” she said. “Nasty boxes with too much tape.”
    “Uh-huh.”
    She pulled back the covers on her side and crawled in, ignoring the fact that six feet of handsome muscle was on the other side of the bed.
    He reached up and turned off the light. The room was not totally dark, however, because she’d left the bathroom light on and the door halfway open.
    She closed her eyes and concentrated on breathing deep. In her head, she counted. By the time she got to two hundred, he was breathing deep and she assumed he was asleep.
    She thought about trying to sneak out. He’d tossed his keys on top of the chest of drawers. All she would need to do was grab them and get out without him hearing her.
    She was good at that kind of thing.
    Didn’t know how she knew that but felt it.
    But where would she go?
    That was the truly terrifying part—to have no idea where her safe place was located. Where her family might be.
    She didn’t trust Cal Hollister but she trusted the outside world even less.

Chapter Four
    Cal felt the candy