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didn’t take his eyes off her, liking the way her eyes revealed her desire for him. He hadn’t missed the increased heart beat in her soft, sexy neck when he’d touched her either.
    He could tell that she was nervous but trying to hide it. He tried to think of some way to ease her fears of him, but nothing came to mind. Because in reality, she should be scared. The things he wanted to do to her, with her, would probably make her run screaming from her own house.
While she was upstairs, the doorbell rang. “Can you get that?” she called down the stairs? “It is probably my neighbors.”
    Sid walked over to the door with the silent grace of a cat. He glanced up the stairway, hoping to get a glimpse of whatever she was doing but the only door was closed. He opened the front door on the second ring and within moments the house was immediately inundated with people smiling and shaking his hand, introducing themselves to him as if he were their next best friend.
    It was not an experience Sid had ever been through before. People in his circles didn’t immediately offer their friendship. In his world, his only friend was his brother. Everyone else was kept at a distance where acquaintances were permitted but never reached more than mild friendship and never instantaneous trust such as these people seemed to be offering without question or hesitation.
Sid hid his surprise but he stepped back from the group that was forming around him in the tiny house.
    “Hello! Aren’t you the most handsome man I’ve ever seen in my entire life!” an attractive woman with loads of makeup, probably about forty years old said as she took a step closer, instantly eliminating the space Sid had just put between himself and the group of strangers. Her thick, Texas drawl and her died blond hair were out of an old fifties movie. “I don’t think we’ve met. I’m Janice and this is my husband,” she said turning to the man behind her, “William.”
“I’m Sid,” was all he said, shaking the woman’s hand, and then her husband’s.
    Janice smiled up at him, patting him on the back and handing him a plate of something covered and mildly warm to his hands. “Glad you’re here Sid. I’m thrilled that Sabrina is finally breaking out of her shell and dating. You can’t do better than Sabrina,” Janice finished then moved on to the kitchen.
    A lady with brown hair and friendly, soft blue eyes followed behind Janice, instantly taking his spare hand and shaking it warmly. “I’ll second that. We’ve been trying to set Sabrina up on blind dates since she arrived in Vegas,” the brown haired woman said, her eyes twinkling with mischief. “But now I understand why she’s turned us all down. I’m Sarah. This is Jim, my husband and my son Jacob,” she said and reached up to hug Sid. “You’re worth the wait!”
    The three of them moved off to the living room and the next set came in and immediately took him into his arms as well. “Oh, aren’t you a hunk!” a woman with shocking red hair said, pressing her hands against his muscular biceps admiringly. “I’m Dorris. I live right next door. If Sabrina gives you any trouble, you just let me know and I’ll knock some sense into her,” Dorris said. “And if you’re in the mood for someone older and wiser, I’ll dump this lug for you!”
    The “lug” simply smacked her bottom which created a squeak and a wink at Sid. “I’m Bob,” the man said and took Sid’s hand in his, shaking it energetically. “Sid, glad to have you here. And ignore Dorris,” he said, waving his hand in the direction of the woman walking into the kitchen. “She’s just mad at me for telling her the potatoes were burning,” he said nodded meaningfully. “Can’t trust her to keep her eyes on the cooking where a woman should be,” he said, raising his voice at the last to make sure his wife and all the other women heard him.
Immediately, two napkins pelted Bob in the face and he chuckled along with