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to eat her up. To fuck her until she was hoarse from screaming his name. But nothing had changed. He was still too old for her, and way too perverted. Hell, the first time he told her to get to her knees and suck his cock, she would probably bite it off. No, Zoey wasn’t for him. No matter how much they physically set each other on fire.
    He cleared his throat, and her blush darkened. “I better grab a shirt first. Can you manage her without me for a bit?”
    Zoey tossed that curtain of black hair arrogantly and glared at him. “For your information I’ve been babysitting since I was twelve. I can handle one tiny human without your assistance, Superman.”
    “Good, because I left my cape at home,” he called out as she left with Juliet clutched to her shoulder. Tanner sat for a moment in the cooling evening air willing his erection away before he went into the house to grab a shirt. The sounds of Zoey cooing to Juliet in the nursery burned into his brain and made his hard heart clench.
    He had already decided that Zoey wasn’t for him. Now he just needed to keep his distance. Even as he thought it, his inner voice scoffed.
    *****
    Zoey watched Tanner talking with the baby as if she was a regular little person and might respond back at any moment. Laughter built in her chest, overwhelming her discomfort at being alone with her dream guy. This wasn’t how she had intended the rest of her day to go, but then her day had been pretty fucked up from the beginning, so what difference did it make at this point.
    “Are you going to stand over there all evening and just watch from a distance?”
    Her head popped up and her blue eyes clashed with his in surprise and irritation. “I was just enjoying your rather adult conversation with an infant who hasn’t even found her toes yet.”
    “Sure she has. She was sucking on them earlier. Weren’t you Julie?” Tanner bent his head and pressed a sweet kiss to the little girl’s tiny foot.
    “You do realize that I would be fine with her by myself, right? You’ve already done the chores, so if you need to leave...”
    “Are you trying to get rid of me?”
    “Well, no, but I know how busy you are.”
    Tanner’s lip curled up in a smile. “Do I make you nervous, Zoey?”
    Zoey just snorted, refusing to respond to the question, but it seemed to please Tanner more.
    “Good, I like knowing I keep you a little off balance. You seem to rock my world every time you get close to me.” Tanner spoke the words as he continued to play with the baby, and Zoey stared at him in shock.
    “What?”
    “Oh don’t play the innocent. You’re standing just out of reach, so I can’t accidentally touch you because you know that if I get my hands on you, you’ll come undone.” His tone changed and when he turned his head to stare at her pointedly, she could see his eyes were darker and his nostrils were flaring. He really was affected by her. It was a stunning revelation and one she wasn’t exactly sure she was ready to handle. “Don’t worry, I agree it’s probably for the best.”
    Pain lanced through her heart, and she was reminded of the embarrassment and shame she felt when she approached him years ago. Stiffening her spine and tipping her head, she snapped at him. “I’m going to go see if there is something in the kitchen I can throw together for dinner while you keep her occupied.” Zoey spun on her heel and scurried away from the scene of domesticity that she craved more than anything else in the world.
    She couldn’t watch Tanner playing with baby Juliet and not crave him. It wasn’t possible. So it was just better if she kept her distance. She could be civil for a couple of hours and then avoid him forever. Maybe she should rethink this living and working in Stone River plan.
    Zoey managed to put together the ingredients for omelets pretty easily and before long she had two plates of fluffy eggs, ham and cheese ready to serve. Warming a bottle, she headed into the living