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running back for the LSU Tigers? Star running back?”
    Good lord! The fantasy gods were obviously working overtime tonight.
    One corner of his mouth ticked up in a half-grin. “The same. I take it you’re a football fan?”
    “Yes.” She laughed. “But not LSU, sorry to say. University of Michigan all the way.”
    Beau picked up his bottle of beer, poured some into his glass, and swallowed a little of it. “Too bad.” He winked. “But I’ll forgive you.”
    Sarah watched with fascination as he drank from the glass again, the corded muscles of his neck flexing smoothly as he swallowed. She had an unexpected urge to smooth her hand over his skin and feel those muscles shift and play beneath her touch. As she studied him, a little piece of information niggled in her brain. “You play for the New Orleans Panthers now, right?”
    He lowered the glass and nodded. “Busted.”
    “Sorry.” She shrugged. “Work’s hard, but I hang onto my Sundays. My family thinks I have an uncontrollable addiction to the game.”
    “I’ll bet you have brothers who are pigskin hounds,” he guessed.
    “No. Only a dad I idolized who taught me everything there was to know about it.”
    “In that case, I’ll drink a toast to him.” He lifted his glass, tilted it slightly, and took a deep swallow. “So, how come you only get Sundays to yourself?”
    Sarah sipped her wine again, savoring the smooth taste of the Riesling. “Law school. Grind, grind, grind.” She chuckled. “I figured out they think if they don’t kill us, we’ll survive in the legal world.”
    He lifted an eyebrow. “You don’t even get Saturdays off?”
    “Ha! Saturdays are no different than Wednesdays when you’re a law student, except you spend them in the library or a study group instead of in class.”
    “But you’re finished now,” he guessed.
    She nodded. “Just got the word that I passed the Bar.” She flipped her hand at the empty chairs. “All of us. We went to law school together and were in the same study group. We decided we’d treat ourselves to a weekend blast to celebrate.”
    He tilted his head, studying her. “How long have you been in town?”
    “Three days. We’ve partied plenty, but tomorrow, it’s back to work.”
    “Three days in New Orleans, huh? There’s plenty to party down with here in the Big Easy.”
    He leaned forward, studying her intently. Light from the small lamp on the table highlighted the flex of muscles in his forearms and caught the golden hair scattered over the skin.
    “Sarah?”
    She blinked herself back to reality. “Sorry. Must have spaced out there for a minute.”
    He flashed that hundred-watt smile at her again. “I’d hate to think I was boring you,” he teased.
    “What?” She brushed her hair back from her face. “Oh, no. No, no, no. Not at all.”
    Wow. Wasn’t she turning into the most brilliant conversationalist? What was next, drooling on the table? Well, maybe, if she kept looking at the sex god sitting next to her.
    “What I meant to say is, I’m glad you sat down with me. Did you say your friends ran out on you?”
    Oh, damn. “Ran out” wasn’t the phrase she wanted to use.
    He chuckled, that sexy, raspy sound that made her nipples ache and a pulse throb hard between her thighs. Oh, my god. What was going on with her? Two minutes with this guy and she was like a horny teenager.
    “More like they had things to do, and I didn’t,” he said. “I thought maybe two people sitting by themselves would have more fun if they sat together, so I took a chance.”
    Sarah made herself relax. After all, how often did she get to have drinks with a football god like Beau Perini? What a great way to end this trip to the Big Easy.
    “I’m glad you came. Over,” she quickly added, her face heating.
    “Me, too.” He winked. “So, what brought you all to New Orleans for your big party time?” He pronounced it N’Awlins, like most of the natives.
    “One of the guys in our study group