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you out of this,” he said, pulling off her pajamas.
    “And don’t you be shy,” Rose replied, tugging his shirt off and reaching eagerly for his jeans.
    “No one can accuse me of being shy.” He tossed his jeans to the floor and kissed her belly. His warm lips caressed and teased, and he took his time exploring her, so that by the time he had kissed her all over, and made love to her again and again, early morning light was peeking in the window.
    “I’ve got to go,” Galen said, getting up to dress. “Not that I want to. Nothing more I’d rather do than let you tempt me back into bed.”
    “And I would,” Rose said, dragging the sheet with her as she climbed from the bed. “But duty calls.”
    He followed her into the bathroom, kissing her. “This cookies-and-tea thing could become a habit,” Galen said.
    “Just cookies and tea?” She lifted a brow, challenging him to admit that he hadn’t come to her room solely for treats of the gastronomic variety.
    “We’ll see,” Galen said. “’Bye, beautiful.”
    She walked him to the door, checked the hallway carefully then blew a kiss his way. His face lit up, and Rose watched him head down the stairs.
    The most wonderful night of her life.
    She went to shower and get ready for the day, floating on air.
    * * *
    “H AVE YOU SEEN J ACE ?” Galen asked Rose when she came down for breakfast. Fiona and Burke were busy cooking up eggs, toast and sausage links, and his brothers were all present and accounted for—except Jace.
    She looked adorably confused. “I just came downstairs.”
    “I didn’t know if you’d run across him upstairs.” Galen shrugged. “He’ll show up eventually. Breakfast is his favorite meal of the day.”
    “I like it, too. Good morning, Fiona. Burke.”
    “Meeting tonight,” Galen said. He had to work hard not to watch every move Rose made. It was hard to believe he’d spent the last several hours making love to her. He could easily skip breakfast, carry her back upstairs and do it all over again.
    His brothers mumbled and murmured about a meeting being called, but his focus was pretty much on Rose. She was wearing yoga-style black stretch pants and a black top. Clearly, she was on her way over to watch the kids, and he adored her looking all sexy nanny.
    Who am I kidding? She’d be sexy in a pair of jeans and an apron, working at the Books’n’Bingo Society, baking cookies.
    I really love looking at her.
    She made his heart happy. There was no two ways around that. Which scared him a little, because he didn’t have a whole lot of room in his life for an emotional attachment right now.
    On the other hand, he could make room for a woman as sweet as Rose.
    “What are you mooning at, Galen?” Dante asked, and he jumped.
    Tighe said, “You look like you’ve got indigestion or your jeans are too tight.”
    Everyone turned to stare at him. Galen sighed, tore his gaze away from Rose reluctantly. “I’m fine. Thanks for the concern, but I’ve never been better.”
    Of course, his gaze bounced right over to Rose when he said he’d never been better, and that was a dead giveaway.
    “Oh-h-h,” his brothers all said, and then Ash had to pipe in, too, and everyone glanced at Rose, who wasn’t paying attention to any of them. She held a biscuit she’d slathered with Fiona’s delicious strawberry jam, and was biting into it. Her blond hair was up in a high ponytail, and as Galen watched every move she made with her sweet lips, lust hit him so fast and hot his legs felt weak.
    His brothers and sister gazed at him, their faces knowing. They were dying to tease him, give him jazz about falling exactly the way he’d said he never would: for an employee of the ranch. But beyond that, tumbling hard, like a boulder down a hill.
    “Smooth, bro,” Sloan said.
    “This is not going to be pretty,” Ash said, smirking at her brother. “You realize you’re playing far out of your league.”
    Rose looked at them curiously, but then