Laurie Paige – The One And Only (страница 9)

She blinked and realized he thought she had accepted. But why shouldn’t she rent it? It was charming. It fit her needs. She would have it to herself. She followed him down the flagstone path to the road. “Wait, the rent,” she reminded him. “How much?”

“Two hundred a month.”

She stopped. “That’s a steal.”

He grinned over his shoulder. “So maybe you’ll feel guilty enough to invite me over for a home-cooked meal once in a while.”

With that, he strode across the grass and got back to work. His cousins looked at her, then him. Feeling that they knew every intimate touch that had occurred between her and Beau, she swung toward town and jogged back to the B and B as calmly as possible.

“Will you look at that?” Trevor said in awe.

Beau gave him a warning glare. He looked around, spotted his T-shirt and put it on.

“What happened while you were showing a prospective renter the house?” Trev demanded.

“Nothing,” Beau muttered, tightening a bolt against the mud sill.

Trevor looked at his watch. “Less than fifteen minutes,” he remarked. “Man, I wish I could make a woman so mad with passion in that length of time that she was clawing my body.”

“Yeah,” Beau agreed. “You should be so lucky.”

Travis, the quiet twin, grinned.

“Not going to tell us about it, huh?” Trevor, the irrepressible cousin, demanded.

“Not a bit.”

“Well, at least you got a trophy during the battle.”

Beau glanced down and spotted the blue headband dangling from his pocket. He shoved it out of sight.

Trevor continued his lament. “I was hoping for a few pointers. My love life sure isn’t anything to write home about. Have you noticed how few women our age live around here? You two have grabbed the prettiest ones to show up in a coon’s age.”

Beau glanced at Travis. The twin had recently gotten engaged to Alison, who’d come to town looking for her long-lost sister, who was pregnant and living with the owner of the ranch next to the Dalton homestead sans marriage.

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