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him. “They?”
    He shrugged. “I figure he’s not working alone. But I’ve been watching. No one’s following. Right now we’re just one of several boats out on a hot summer afternoon. And no one knows about the house we’re headed to. We’ll be safe until I can reach my brother in D.C. He should be able to help us figure something out.”
    If Rand couldn’t help them, Riley wasn’t sure what they were going to do because based on what they knew so far, they weren’t going to be able to depend on Callah’s father for help.
    “I really appreciate this, Riley, but you’re a reporter, not some sort of bodyguard. And I’m no Xena Warrior Princess. I think we might be in over our heads here.”
    Riley tried not to be offended by her assessment. After all, it was true. He was no knight in shining armor and Superman was way out of his realm. But someone had sent him to her rescue. Someone who felt he was the man for the job.
    “Don’t you worry, Princess. We’ll get out of this somehow.”
    She closed her eyes and the sun beat down on her face as she stretched her hands above her head causing her dress to cup her breasts perfectly.  
    She looked like a goddess. She looked like a woman who knew how to please a man. She looked like a fantasy come true. Ah damn.
    “Sweetheart, if you’re going to sit here acting like a temptress, I better warn you I’m not the same man I was before.”
    Her eyes flew open in shock at his words as her arms slapped to her sides, and he called himself a fool. No way was he going to get her in bed if he kept harassing her like this.
    But it was too damn fun not to.
    Especially with the way her eyes widened so innocently. She might have been married to Mr. Hollywood Charlie Benson, but she was still the same good girl she’d always been.
    “I’m not trying to flirt with you, Riley.”
    He laughed at the color on her cheeks. “Sure you aren’t.”
    “You really are full of yourself.”
    “I know it, Darlin’. I just can’t help it. I see you and it makes me a little crazy like that.”
    He hadn’t had fun like this in…he frowned as he realized the truth. He hadn’t had fun like this in forever.
    She stood and walked carefully to his side. Her eyes spit fire, promised he was going to get burned. He relished the thought. Wondered what kind of comeback Miss Priss was going to throw in his face this time.
    She stared into his eyes, meeting him look for look. Her sweet lips looking entirely too kissable, just as they always had, and he thought about brushing his thumb just there under her bottom lip to see if it would tremble, to see if she would hold her own.  
    But she ruined it all with a naughty smile that seemed completely at odds with the woman in front of him.
    “Here’s the deal, Riley. I’m not the same girl I was twelve years ago. My boyfriend didn’t leave me at the prom because I wouldn’t sleep with him. You’re doing everything in your power to make me believe you’re still the baddest bad boy in town. Well, guess what? I never believed you were a bad boy. A real bad boy wouldn’t have thrown me out of his bed all those years ago and he sure as hell wouldn’t have been as tender as you were later. And honestly, a real bad man wouldn’t be doing everything in his power to scare me away now. Can we please move past this?”

    Speechless. She’d struck him speechless.
    Thank God. Because no way could she survive a full-on onslaught courtesy of Riley Sorenson. No way. She couldn’t even meet his eyes without falling into their deep blue depths. It would probably take a direct infusion of Godiva to cure this problem.
    She stepped back and tried desperately to mask the way her body reacted to him.
    “Sweetheart, don’t make the mistake of putting me in the hero’s category.”
    She sighed. To think she’d called him the most honest person she knew. “Don’t call me sweetheart. And have no fear. I won’t be calling you hero. Unless of course you can