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knows you well enough to sleep on your sofa.”
    â€œOn my sofa,” she reiterated. “Not in my bed.”
    â€œYour sofa is your bed,” Timmy reminded her.
    â€œIt is?” Brad said, staring at her. “Where did you sleep?”
    â€œOn the floor and that’s not the point. There is a difference, Timothy Michael Chambers, between having a man fall asleep on the sofa and inviting him into my bed!”
    After another moment of tense silence, her brother nodded sheepishly. “You’re right. I apologize.”
    â€œMaybe you should go home and get some sleep,” Karyn suggested. She wanted him out of there before he began cross-examining Brad about his career prospects and bank balance.
    â€œAre you sure?”
    â€œI’m sure.”
    Tim directed another measuring glance at Brad. Heseemed to visibly relax finally, though that didn’t keep him from warning, “If you hurt her, Willis, the world won’t be big enough for you to hide in.”
    Brad gave him a faint smile. “I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
    Karyn’s heart tumbled at the tenderness in his voice. It was almost impossible for her to draw her gaze away, but finally she was forced to walk Tim to the door, since he didn’t seem inclined to get there on his own.
    â€œYou’re not going to say anything to the others, are you?” she pleaded.
    He glanced over her shoulder at Brad, who was watching the two of them with interest. “I don’t think it would do any good. Just be careful, sis. You could be playing out of your league.”
    â€œI thought so, too, at first.”
    â€œNot anymore?”
    She felt herself smiling. “No. I think I’m right where I belong.”
    â€œI’m happy for you, then.”
    â€œThanks.”
    She closed the door behind him and leaned back against it with a sigh of relief. Brad came over and pulled her into his arms. She nestled against him, awed by how right it felt for her to be there.
    â€œThat wasn’t so awful, was it?” he whispered.
    â€œIt could have been worse,” she admitted. “Frank would have slugged first and asked questions later.”
    â€œThen I’m glad Tim was the brother who showed up. Did you mean what you told him? Are you feeling comfortable with what’s happening between us?”
    â€œMore and more every minute.”
    She could feel his sigh. “I’m glad, sweetheart.” Brad tilted her chin up and touched his lips to hers in the lightest of caresses. But the passion that had been kept at bay all night flared into full flame, the heat swirling through them. Karyn lost herself in the enveloping warmth.
    It was Brad who pulled away eventually. “We’d best slow down or those brothers of yours will really have grounds to take me apart.”
    Karyn’s knees felt so weak without Brad’s arms around her that she sank down on the sofa. “I don’t understand what you do to me.” She cast a look of appeal in his direction. “I’ve always been in control of myself, but when you touch me, it’s like I just float off to some incredible place.”
    â€œAnd you see that as bad?”
    â€œI see that as terrifying.”
    He sat down next to her. “I promise you that you have nothing to fear from me. I meant what I told your brother. I won’t hurt you.”
    The comment was reassuring, but hardly realistic. “You can’t possibly guarantee that.”
    â€œThere you go again. You’ve obviously had too much legal training. Let me correct myself, then. I will do my very best never to hurt you.”
    â€œI think I liked it better when you were making more adamant claims.”
    â€œYou can’t have it both ways, sweetheart. Now, how about getting out of here? We’re wasting our vacation.”
    â€œJust let me take a quick shower and change.”
    â€œI don’t suppose,” he began, but