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his jeans and put them on without bothering with his underwear. “I’ll make this up to you, I promise.”
    Ram handed Gray his shirt. “Yeah. Some other time,” he mumbled.
    Gray shrugged his shirt on and stuffed his feet into his boots. He balled up his socks and underwear to hide in the garage until he could come back to get them before turning towards Ram. “Is this a deal breaker?”
    With his thumbs hooked into the belt loops of those sexy as fuck jeans, Ram shook his head. “I’m disappointed, that’s all.”
    “Me, too.” Gray gestured towards the door. “I’ll see ya in the mornin’.”
    “Call me if you get lonely.”
    “I already am.”

    * * * *

    Gray made it to the stable with time to spare. He was checking on Sir Lindley of the Downs, nicknamed Flint owing to his colouring, when Raleigh walked into the stable.
    “Something wrong with him?” she asked.
    “He’s favouring his left hind leg. I’m just trying to figure out why.” Gray didn’t bother standing to address his niece. “The way you acted at dinner was embarrassing, pumpkin. What the hell’s gotten into you?”
    “I don’t like your new manager, and I won’t pretend I do.”
    Gray’s first reaction was to jump up and defend Ram, but he held himself back. If Ram were any other of the hired hands, Gray would be impartial. It would serve him to remember that if he had hopes of hiding his budding feelings for the man from the rest of the staff. “Jack Ramsdale just moved from Arizona to Arkansas to take this job. From what I hear he’s a damn good manager. So unless you plan to quit school and help me manage the place, I’d suggest you keep your tongue in check when he’s around.”
    “I don’t like the way he looks at me. Are you sure he doesn’t have some kind of record or something?”
    Gray dipped his chin down and grinned. He knew what a sexually charged glance from Ram looked like. Gray’s body started to respond to the memory of their first night in the tack room. “You’re too young for him. I can guarantee Ram isn’t interested in teenagers. What you’re seein’ is probably disbelief that anyone so darn pretty could have a mouth so filled with venom they could give a rattler lessons.”
    “I can’t believe you’re sticking up for him!”
    “Not sticking up for anyone. All I’m sayin’ is that you need to work this out with Ram because I’m not about to fire him before he’s had a chance to prove what he can do. Now get on back to the house.”
    “Uncle Gray!” Raleigh yelled, stamping her foot on the concrete floor. “I don’t want him in my house! I just saw him standing in front of his window completely naked. I know he was waiting for me to come home so he could flash me.”
    Tired after a long day and on edge after the evening’s events, Gray got to his feet. He stared at his niece and shook his head. “Part of Ram’s hiring package was the loft apartment and meals. That’s business. That’s my business. I’ll talk to Ram about lowering his blinds in the evenings. The loft’s his home now, and I’m not about to tell the man he can’t walk around nude in his own home.”
    Gray’s body reacted predictably to the thought of Ram’s naked body. He moved to put the stallion between him and Raleigh.
    Raleigh bit her bottom lip as tears started to roll down her cheeks. It was an old ploy she’d used with Gray’s father, but it didn’t have the effect on Gray it had once had. “I don’t understand why you’re taking his side.”
    “I told you. I’m not taking anyone’s side. I’ve worked hard for too damn long to make this place one of the top breeding operations in the country. I’m not about to start making decisions that could hurt the ranch just because you don’t like someone. Like I said, you’ll have to learn to deal with Ram being here.”
    Raleigh narrowed her almond-shaped eyes. “Fine, but don’t say I didn’t warn you about him.”
    Gray watched Raleigh leave with