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looked so beautiful in it she should consider it for herself as well. Grace wound up buying it later on sale. It was hanging in her closet at home.
    Grace paused at the bottom of the steps, feeling like she needed a moment to compose herself before joining all the others inside. She took a deep breath and climbed the first step up to the porch. As she looked up, three men dressed in black suits and black cowboy boots walked out the screen door onto the porch. One handsome cowboy would have been enough to make her salivate, but three of them?
    Jack looked so handsome in his new suit. Ethan, with his shoulder-length dark hair and those sparkling blue eyes, looked like he belonged in the pages of a magazine. The other cowboy was a stranger to her, but she imagined this was their other roommate, Adam Davis. What startled her most about their appearance, though, was how genuinely happy they seemed to be that she was there, even the one she didn’t know.
    He never took his intense pale green eyes off of her, this giant of a man.
    His hair was dark brown like Ethan’s but cut much shorter, so only a little showed under his hat. He was taller by two or three inches than Ethan, so they were like stair steps, but all three were so imposing in their own way.
    They were all muscular, but this stranger was broader through the chest, and she thought he’d probably had to order that suit coat-custom made to fit as well as it did. There she went again, thinking inappropriate thoughts at Rose Marie’s expense.
    Jack trotted down the steps, took her hand in his, and kissed her cheek.
    He led her up to the shaded porch. Her cheek tingled, and heat bloomed 28

    where his lips had touched her. Her hand trembled slightly in his big, callused hand. She found his work-roughened, capable, working man’s hands to be incredibly sexy.
    “Grace, you met Ethan at the house yesterday, I hear. I’d like to introduce you to my other roommate, Adam Davis. Adam, this is Grace Stuart.” Jack sounded so pleased that she was there.
    “Grace, it’s a pleasure to finally meet you. I’ve been looking forward to it.” Adam reached out to her, and his big hand dwarfed hers as he lifted it and bent down slightly to kiss her knuckles. She was surprised by the old-fashioned gesture but even more so by the undisguised interest in his eyes.
    Ethan leaned in and kissed her cheek, shocking her completely. She was not accustomed to receiving so much attention but had a feeling she could easily get used to it. He leaned in and said, “Supper was really good last night. We enjoyed it so much we thought about stealing you and bringing you home with us. Maybe we can cook for you some time to return the favor.”
    Surprised at his words, her lips popped open, but she wasn’t sure what to say.
    Oh, my gosh. Steal me. Plunder and pillage!
    “He’s serious, by the way,” Jack said, chuckling a little. “Maybe sometime soon, after things settle down a bit, we could have you out to the ranch for a nice meal.”
    She had no idea what to say. She wasn’t stunned speechless because she thought their invitation was inappropriate, though it might just be at the moment. She didn’t know what to say that would not come across as overeager . Then Owen reared his ugly head in her mind again. He was so out of there it was almost funny. Like Wile E. Coyote careening over a cliff with an anvil tied to his ass. He never should have asked for her ATM card.
    Thoughts of Rose Marie came to mind, and she could almost hear the old woman say, “Seize the day, baby.” It was a truly surreal moment.
    She grinned back at him and bravely said, “That sounds like a fantastic idea, Jack. I’d love to. Just give me a few days. I have some serious house cleaning to do first.”
    Though she meant it figuratively and not literally, it did bring her current housekeeping dilemma to mind, which made her pause and frown.

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