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thought about what was in the box. “She needs somewhere to stay or a phone to use or something.”
    Teri pranced up next to him and his nostrils flared at her now familiar scent, something soft, something sensual…something different. He inched away from her. “You got room at your place?” he asked Maybelle.
    She shook her head and looked regretfully down at Teri. “Sorry, honey, but my kids and my grandkids are staying with me for a week. I’m full to capacity.” She looked straight at Seth. “You’ve got plenty of room in that big old house of yours.”
    His heart pounded in panic. “It wouldn’t be right.” It wouldn’t be safe, for either of them.
    Maybelle rolled her eyes. “Your last housekeeper lived with you.”
    “I won’t go where I’m not wanted,” Teri stated and spun back toward his truck. She went up on tiptoes and attempted to reach for her suitcase in the truck bed. “Maybe I can get someone else to help me. I’ll set my things in the alley next to the diner and go to that bar. The Boot Scoot or whatever it was.”
    “The hell you will!” Seth barked, shocking himself. He might not want her close to him for obvious reasons, but he sure didn’t want one of them yahoos who’d be there tonight at the bar anywhere near her either.
    Maybelle chuckled and climbed into her car. “Believe I’ll head on home. You two can work out this little problem.”
    She backed up and gave him an odd smile, then waved happily at Teri as she drove off.
    Teri went back to trying to reach into the truck bed. He swatted her bottom. “Stop that!”
    “You hit me!” she accused, glaring at him, but something flared in her eyes. Something more than anger, almost sensual.
    “Smacked your sweet butt,” he corrected. “Because you’re acting nuts. You can’t reach the stuff and you’re going to hurt yourself if you keep on trying.”
    “What do you care?” she said in a pouty manner. Her eyes shimmered with heat. Desire?
    Just as he was about to answer a horn honked and his neighboring rancher leaned out of his pickup to yell out, “You coming to the Boot Scoot?” He grinned at Teri and winked. “Bringing the pretty little blonde? Can I have a dance with her?” He winked again.
    Seth bristled and nudged Teri around the other side of his truck. “I’ve got other plans tonight.”
    Teri glowered back at him. “Stop pushing me.”
    “Need some help, sweet thing?” his neighbor questioned hopefully.
    “I need—“
    Seth took her elbow and escorted her to the passenger’s side. “You need to get in the damn truck.” As she gave him a look meant to shrivel him to nothingness, he was sure, and climbed inside, he called back to his friend, “Show’s over. You can head on to the Boot Scoot now.”
    He heard the other man chortling as he drove away. Shaking his head at his idiocy, Seth walked back around the truck and got inside. She sat waiting for an explanation. He just wished he had one. “You can stay at my ranch until we get your car reported as stolen and arrange for a rental or something.”
    She sighed. “It wasn’t stolen.”
    Cranking on the engine, he gaped at her. “Looked like it to me.”
    “Looks can be deceiving.”
    Didn’t he know that! He was a perfect example of it. But he had an odd feeling she was talking about much more than her missing car. He was too tired, too confused to press her about what she meant. “You okay with staying at my place? We don’t have any hotels in Templeton, not even in the next town over. And I don’t particularly want to drive all the way into Emporia or back to Topeka.”
    “You’re inviting me to stay with you? Really?” She glanced at him, clearly shocked.
    He should change his mind. He should suck it up and drive her to Emporia. Yet he couldn’t spit the words out. Idiot man. “At least for tonight.” He’d make damn sure she was gone the next day.
     
     
     
     

Chapter Two
     
     
    Living with any man could be a trial