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we?” Jessie said, trying not to analyze why she was sorry that that was true, and why she was also sorry to be pulled away so suddenly.
    â€œLooks finished to me,” Flint confirmed.
    To Ella, Jessie said, “You can tell Gramma I’ll come home as soon as I wash out these paint things.”
    â€œCome on, Adam, let’s go,” Ella said as if she’d just been given the upper hand.
    â€œOuw go wis Mama when she goes.”
    â€œAdam…” Ella said in the warning tone she always took when she was in the mode of oldest-child-as-boss.
    This time it was Flint who stepped in before a fight broke out. To Jessie, he said, “I’ll take care of the cleanup, go ahead and go home.”
    Jessie laughed. “Be careful. I’m the mother of four—I don’t get offers for other people to cleanup too often and I never turn them down when I do.”
    That made him smile back at her—a wide grin that showed perfect white teeth and drew ever-so-appealing lines around the corners of his mouth. And the very fact that his smile made her flush was a phenomenon Jessie didn’t want to delve into.
    â€œGo,” he urged with a nudge of that sexy, slightly dimpled chin.
    â€œIf you’re sure…”
    â€œI’m sure. It’s nothing.”
    So he’s not only hot, but he’s also a nice guy, Jessie thought, remembering the previous day’s conversation with her sister.
    But that, too, wasn’t something she should be caring about and she decided that before she started to actually like this guy, she’d better go home where she belonged.
    â€œOkay, I’ll take you up on that, then,” she announced, scooting around on the drier so that she could get down.
    But that set the tarp into motion and it began to slide, taking her with it until Flint lunged forward to catch her.
    And in a split second Jessie found herself with Flint Fortune’s handsome face scant inches from hers, hisarms on either side of her, his hands flat against the tarp but so close to her rear end that she thought she could almost feel them.
    And her own hands somehow clasped to his power-house shoulders to catch herself.
    Wide-eyed, she stared into his dark eyes and wasn’t quite sure whether it was the near fall from the drier or Flint that had stolen her breath. But one way or another, for a moment she was frozen there, so close that they could have kissed had either of them moved an inch.
    And why that went through her mind, she had no idea.
    â€œMama?” Ella said with some shock in her voice.
    It took Jessie a moment to remember herself, to breathe, to veer away from Flint and pull her hands from shoulders she was enjoying the feel of much too much…
    â€œWhoops,” she said feebly.
    â€œMama aw-most fawed off—tha’s funny,” Adam said with a giggle.
    â€œThanks for the catch,” Jessie muttered, leaning as far back from Flint as she could.
    But still he stayed where he was, anchoring the tarp, looking into her eyes, while a much more intimate smile slowly spread agile lips. So intimate that it made something skitter across the surface of Jessie’s skin—a sensation she hadn’t had in longer than she could remember.
    â€œNo problem,” he said in a voice that had a deeper, almost sensual timbre.
    Then he pushed off the drier and took hold of the tarp from behind her. “Okay, now slide off,” he advised.
    Under the watchful eye of two of her children, Jessiedid, wondering at the scowl that had come onto Ella’s pretty, freckled face as the little girl glared at Flint as if he’d done something wrong.
    â€œOkay, we better get going before Gramma sends more troops,” Jessie said in a tone she hoped sounded normal. Inside, though, she was a jumble of excitement and confusion and something that seemed to remind her she was a woman—a feeling she hadn’t experienced in a very, very long