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offered. “Ain’t exactly comfy, but it’s better than freezin’ to death in your truck.”
    “You’re a ray of sunshine, old man,” Adam bit off in his direction. “But . . . the fact is, the woman in the cabin happens to be an old friend of mine. And since the place has bunks, it makes more sense for me to stay with her. Whether she likes it or not.”
    T his was starting to feel like a bad movie. If things kept going like this, a crazed cabin killer probably would show up soon. And if Adam had been in a sour mood when he’d first gotten here, now it had progressed to being downright rotten. To think he had a perfectly nice house that he’d willingly chosen to leave behind for this.
    He stomped back in through the cabin door, not bothering to knock since it was damn cold out. And Sue Ann looked up with a start, now sitting in the same chair where she’d been standing a few minutes ago. Apparently, she hadn’t meant to leave the door unlocked.
    “I’ve got some bad news for ya,” he said without ceremony. “You’ve got a roommate.”
    Her eyebrows shot up. “What?”
    “All the cabins are booked for the night, and I’ve gotta sleep somewhere .”
    He watched as she sucked in her breath, an expression of disbelief on her pretty face, her blond hair pulled up into a messy knot behind her head, loose tendrils falling down and calling attention to her slender neck. And like before, something about seeing skin that was usually covered, here, now, in such a private setting, felt more personal than any other time she might have worn her hair that way over the years. Strange. Strange in a way he couldn’t explain to himself.
    You flirted with her earlier. Behind that silly reindeer head .
    Damn, he had. And he hadn’t quite known why, just like he couldn’t understand the way he was feeling now . At the time, he’d been bored, pressed into the situation by virtue of being den leader—it had been his last official act of fatherhood before driving the twins to Sheila’s parents’ house for their trip. He’d assumed Sue Ann would recognize his voice. And when she hadn’t, something uncharacteristically devilish had perked to life inside him, urging him to play with her a little—and before he’d known it, it had turned into flirting.
    It had, if nothing else, provided a momentary distraction from his crappy mood. And it had been . . . fun, even if a little weird. But he didn’t think this was the time to break the news that he was the bold reindeer, because, pretty or not, she looked completely upset, even more than before.
    “Well, if you insist on staying,” she said, “then I’ll just leave. Because if you’re here . . . ” She let out a heavy sigh. “It just ruins the whole thing.”
    Adam heaved out a hot breath. “Thanks a lot,” he said, trying to be more offended than . . . aroused. Since she’d just pushed to her feet to face him—and she apparently still hadn’t noticed what she was wearing in front of him. And hell, he wished she could leave, but . . . “If it was that simple, Sue Ann, I’d have left.”
    “What do you mean by simple?”
    “There’s a freaking blizzard going on outside.”
    She blinked up at him, confusion now shading her brown eyes. “Really? How can that be? It’s only November.” The bulk of southern Ohio’s snow typically showed up after the holiday, and it was downright rare to get a full-blown snowstorm this early.
    But he only gave a disgusted nod. “Really. And November or not, nothing’s making it up or down the hill, so we’re trapped here, at least ’til morning. Afraid you’re stuck with me.”
    This forced another thick sigh from her, the kind that came with a heavy shrug—which drew his attention back to her boobs, to the fact that her nipples were clearly visible through that pajama top. The bottoms, they were okay—flannel, with different colored snowflakes on them. The top, though—the top was getting a little hard to