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to North Carolina?” her cousin Stern asked, grinning.
    Megan returned his grin and shook her head. “Although I miss
Bailey, I’m not going to North Carolina.”
    “Let me guess. You’re either going to visit Gemma in Australia
or Delaney in Tehran,” Chloe said, smiling.
    Again Megan shook her head. “Those are on my to-do list for
later, but not now,” she said.
    When others joined in, trying to guess where she was headed,
she held up her hand. “Please, it’s not that big of a deal.”
    “It’s a big deal if you’re taking time off. You like
working.”
    “I don’t like working, but I like the job I do. There is a
difference. And to appease everyone’s curiosity, I talked to Clint and Alyssa
today, and I’m visiting them in Texas for a while.”
    “Texas?”
    She glanced down the table at Riley, which allowed her to look
at Rico again, as well. He was staring at her, and it didn’t take a rocket
scientist to see he wasn’t pleased with her announcement. Too bad, too glad. She
couldn’t force him to take her to Texas, but she could certainly go there on her
own. “Yes, Riley, I’m going to Texas.”
    “When are you leaving?” her brother Zane asked. “I need to, ah,
get that box from you before you leave.”
    She nodded, seeing the tense expression in Zane’s features. She
wondered about the reason for it. She was very much aware that he had a lock box
in her hall closet. Although she’d been tempted, she’d never satisfied her
curiosity by toying with the lock and looking inside. “That will be fine, Zane.
I’m not leaving until Friday.”
    She took another quick glance at Rico before resuming dinner.
He hadn’t said anything, and it was just as well. There really wasn’t anything
he could say. Although they would end up in the same state and within mere miles
from each other, they would not be together.
    Since he didn’t want her to accompany him, she would do a
little investigating on her own.

Three
    T he next morning Rico was still
furious.
    Now he knew what Ramsey’s warning had been about. The little
minx was going to Texas, pretty damn close to where he would be. He would have
confronted her last night, but he’d been too upset to do so. Now here he was—at
breakfast time—and instead of joining Zane, Riley, Canyon and Stern at one of
the local cafés that boasted hotcakes to die for, he was parked outside Megan’s
home so he could try and talk some sense into her.
    Did she not know what red-hot desire was about? Did she not
understand how it was when a man really wanted a woman to the point where
self-control took a backseat to longing and urges? Did she not comprehend there
was temptation even when she tried acting cool and indifferent?
    Just being around her last night had been hard enough, and now
she was placing herself in a position where they would be around each other in
Texas without any family members as buffers. Oh, he knew the story she was
telling her family, that she would be visiting Clint in Austin. Chances were,
she would—for a minute. He was friends with Clint and Alyssa and had planned to
visit them as well, during the same time she planned to be there. Since Forbes
wasn’t that far from Austin, Clint had offered Rico the use of one of their
cabins on the Golden Glade Ranch as his headquarters, if needed.
    But now Megan had interfered with his plans. She couldn’t
convince Rico that she didn’t have ulterior motives and that she didn’t intend
to show up in Forbes. She intended to do some snooping, with or without him. So
what the hell was she paying him for if she was going to do things her way? He
got out of the car and glanced around, seeing her SUV parked at the side of her
house. She had a real nice spread, and she’d kept most of it in its natural
state. In the background, you could see rolling hills and meadows, mountains and
the Whisper Creek Canyon. It was a beautiful view. And there was a lake named
after her grandmother Gemma. Gemma Lake was