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tonight?”
    “Probably,” Kasey replied.
    “What about you, Denise? You coming too?” Brody asked.
    Before she could answer an arm wrapped around Denise’s
shoulder. “Ah come on, Brod, you know my sister doesn’t go to those things.”
    Kat spun to look at the new arrival. Sweet baby Jesus, the
cowboys here were incredible. This guy made Duncan and Kasey look plain. Since he
hadn’t glanced at her yet, she allowed herself to look her fill.
    A worn cowboy hat covered his head, dark-brown hair poked
out beneath the brim. She scanned the body attached to the sexier-than-sin
face. Long, lean legs encased in dusty jeans and even dustier boots. Her eyes
lingered on the way he filled out the fly of his jeans and she gulped. Holy
cow. Continuing her survey, she focused on his rolled-up sleeves and the corded
forearms, arms that had flexed and moved as he’d ridden the bull. His broad chest
filled out the button-down shirt and she continued to look him over. Finally
she raised her eyes to his face and the air whooshed out of her lungs as she
was held captive by the most piercing blue eyes she’d ever seen. The pictures
she’d seen of him had not even come close to preparing her for the real thing.
She’d thought Denise’s eyes had been striking, but on a man they were so much better.
    A slow smile spread across his face as he did some looking
of his own. His eyes lingered on her breasts and her nipples beaded tightly
beneath the scrutiny. Damn things have a mind of their own. She fought
the urge to cover her chest.
    “Justin, this is Kat. She’s the reporter who’s going to be
staying with us,” Denise said, drawing his attention from Kat’s body.
    His smile grew as a look of pure male confidence spread
across his face. “Is that right?”
    Kat nodded.
    “Well then, this might not be nearly as painful as I was
thinking.” He stepped toward Kat and stuck out his hand. His warm, calloused
palm rubbed against hers and she couldn’t help wondering what those rough hands
would feel like against her most sensitive flesh.
    “It’s nice to meet you, Kat. I’m Justin.”
    His voice slid across her body like a caress as he held her
hand just a little longer than convention dictated.
    Denise snorted. “All right, Romeo, back off. Kat didn’t come
here to get hit on by a bunch of horny cowboys.”
    Justin glanced at Kat and raised an eyebrow at her in
question, daring her to disagree with his sister’s claim.
    Right, she was here to work. She needed this paycheck to
prove to her family she could stand on her own two feet. Her dad kept expecting
her to come home with her tail between her legs and she’d be damned if that was
going to happen. But as she glanced over at Justin again and the sexy smile on
his face, she wondered if maybe a little fling while she was here might not be
such a bad thing. She was a good multitasker after all.
    She let her gaze roam down his body again. Yep, hooking up
with a sexy-as-sin cowboy might be just what she needed to relieve some stress.
A ranch in Arizona was a million miles away from New York, no one would be any
wiser if she made the most of her time away.
    Justin watched her. She shrugged as if to say “who knows”
and turned her attention back to Denise. Just because she planned to have sex
with him didn’t mean she had to make it easy.
    * * * * *
    Later that night at the dance, Justin leaned against the
wall with his beer in hand, watching with amusement as Kasey and Duncan chatted
up a trio of bunnies who had approached them.
    Bunny one cut herself from the herd and moved closer to
Justin. She twirled the end of her blonde hair directly over her breast and her
hand dragged across her nipple each time she twirled, making her nipples
visible through her halter-top. She leaned in close to him. “So, cowboy, did
you get enough riding in today or do you still have some energy left?”
    She licked her full lips and trailed her long nails down his
chest toward his belt buckle and