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stared up at him. Lord. He was so tall. So big and broad. So intent. So thoughtful. So freakin’ hot. So…here.
    “You okay, sweetheart?”
    “I-I don’t really know.”
    Kade ran the knuckle of his index finger down her jawline. “You feel fine to me—
    very, very fine, but maybe you oughta be in bed.”
    Her mouth went dry as powdered milk.
    “Let me take you to bed and take care of you.”
    Yes! “Ah. Okay.”
    “What say we get out of here?” His voice dropped to a sexy growl. “Now?”
    Before Skylar could drag him home, forcing him to fulfill the promises darkening his eyes, Annie shouted from the office. “Sky. Yellow Wheel Promotions. Line two.”
    She backed up so fast Kade’s hand shot out to steady her. “Easy. Didn’t mean to spook you.”
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    “You didn’t.” Liar, liar . “I-I have to take that call.”
    “I’ll just wait and have a look around. Do you mind?”
    “Not at all.”
    Then Dee was right there. Grinning and batting her fake eyelashes. “I’d be happy to take you on a tour.”
    “That’s not—”
    “It’d be my pleasure, yes-sirree, a real pleasure. You look awful familiar to me, honey,” Dee cooed. “Have we met?”
    “No, ma’am.”
    “He looks familiar, Dee, because his daughter looks just like him.”
    Kade shot her a startled glance.
    Skylar couldn’t withhold a smirk. “This is Eliza’s father, Kade McKay. Kade, Dee Bancroft.”
    “Nice to meetcha, Miz Bancroft.”
    When Annie yelled, “Sky. Did you hear me? Line two,” Skylar had no choice but to dump him with Dee.
    Ten minutes later, she found Kade and Dee chatting in the herb drying room. He turned around at her approach. His heated I-wanna-eat-you-up look made her nipples hard and her belly clench. Then his handsome face lit up when he noticed Eliza was in her arms.
    “There’s my sweet girl.”
    At the sound of his voice, Eliza’s tiny feet kicked.
    His grin widened. “Didja miss me, baby? You been behavin’ for your mama today?”
    “Your sweet girl hasn’t slept for more than fifteen minutes at a time all day.”
    “Maybe that means she’ll sleep all night for a change.” He nuzzled Eliza’s pudgy neck. “Which ain’t fair because it’s your night to be up with her.”
    “My night? I thought we were taking turns?”
    “Me too, sweetheart. But I took all the turns last night. You didn’t move when I got out of bed. At midnight. At two. And at four.”

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    Dee chuckled. “Oh. I get it now.” Still smiling, she said, “Nadia wants to talk to you before you leave. She says it’s important.” Dee disappeared around the corner.
    Skylar withheld a groan. She liked Nadia. She liked that Nadia wasn’t afraid to talk to her when she kept her distance from everyone else. She liked that Nadia wasn’t a drama queen. But it bugged the heck out of her Nadia was so fickle, and Sky didn’t have to guess what Nadia wanted to talk to her about. Again.
    “Lemme take Eliza home so you can get back to work.” Kade lifted her from Skylar’s arms. “Come on, girlie. You and me gotta date with a warm bottle and a hot bath.”
    “Do you want to drive my car? Or just take the car seat out of it?”
    He frowned. “I have a car seat in my truck.”
    “Since when?”
    “Since the day after I moved in. I bought one, figurin’ it’d be easier if we had two.”
    “I didn’t know.”
    “You didn’t ask. You assumed. I’m findin’ you do that a lot with me, Skylar.” His eyes met hers. “See you at home.”
    Why was everyone acting so weird today?
    The second Sky returned to her office, Annie, a forty-something, no-nonsense native Wyoming cowgirl, descended on her like a rabid coyote. “So Eliza wasn’t an immaculate conception as you’d led all of us to believe?”
    Sky snorted.
    “Granted, that spectacular hunk of a man is pretty damn close to god-like.”
    No argument here.
    “Not that he had