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know you.”
    Mac nodded, not entirely sure whether she was speaking to Maria or him.
    Maria gripped Kelli’s hands and smiled. “I let you get settled and then you come tell me what you like for dinner, sí ?”
    “ Sí ,” Kelli agreed as Maria bustled off toward the kitchen.
    Across the dining room in the study, Mac spotted Hank, his second-in-command. Hank waved, then gestured to the phone held against his ear. Kelli turned and looked at Mac.
    “You have a lot of people here.”
    “Yes.” He lowered his voice. “And don’t think for a moment they aren’t watching.”
    He meant it as a warning not to let her guard down, not to trust anyone with their secret, with the details of their plan. Instead, she looked up at him with a saucy expression.
    “Well then, don’t you think you ought to kiss me?”
    “What?”
    She took a step closer, her cheeks flushed, and grabbed the front of his shirt with her pink-tipped fingers.. “Sure, honey. We’ve been apart for weeks, and obviously we can’t keep our hands off each other.”
    Mac glanced toward the kitchen, where Maria was busy polishing a granite countertop that sure as hell didn’t need polishing. Across the hall in the office, Hank adjusted the phone against his ear. From his peripheral vision, Mac saw Brian moving toward the house towing a wheeled cart loaded with luggage.
    Mac looked down at Kelli. Her features were fixed in an angelic smile, but there was something else in her eyes. Something daring him to kiss her, to make it clear to the household staff that this engagement was no act.
    “My pleasure,” he said, meaning it more than she probably realized.
    He pulled her to him, and she blinked with surprise, stumbling. He caught her in his arms, molding her body against his as she tilted her face up to look at him. Her eyes were wide and her cheeks flushed, and he felt a surge of lust as he lowered his lips to hers.
    She froze at first, and Mac wondered if he’d gone too far, too fast. Then she kissed him back, her lips parting as she gave a soft moan in the back of her throat.
    He pulled her tighter against him, marveling at how tiny she felt in his arms, how soft. He didn’t want to crush her, but couldn’t fight the urge to push her back against the wall of the foyer. She stiffened, pressing against his chest. His fingers tangled in her hair and he tipped her head back to deepen the kiss. He pushed her toward the wall again, and this time she went willingly, arching her body against his as her shoulders bumped the stucco wall. He slid one hand to the small of her back, curving her pelvis against his. His body responded, and he wanted her so badly his brain screamed with it. He kissed her harder, cupping her face with his free hand to angle her against him.
    He felt her hips swivel, felt her moving against him in a way that left him wondering if he’d seriously misjudged this woman. There was a fire behind the serenity, a passion behind the sweetness. Mac slid his hand up, traveling the silky smoothness of her back and around the side to graze her breast. Christ, she wasn’t wearing a bra? He traced the underside of her breast with his thumb as her leg twined around his.
    His other hand had a mind of its own, finding its way to the back of her thigh beneath her skirt. His palm slid up, up, up—
    Kelli gasped, breaking the kiss. Those turquoise eyes held equal parts shock and desire.
    The desire pulled him in, but the shock made him take a step back. He cleared his throat. His left hand still curved around a bare ass cheek that definitely wasn’t hidden beneath demure bikini panties. It was thong or nothing. Mac felt a surge of heat in his groin. He stared into her eyes, refusing to blink. He moved his mouth to her ear, wanting to make damn sure she couldn’t miss his words.
    “Don’t think I won’t do whatever I need to do to make this cover story believable for everyone,” he whispered.
    She shivered in his arms and drew back, looking at