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what it would feel like to have a man bury his head between her
legs and lick…but that would also mean… “No!”
    “Okay. Enough.” Cade took her by the
shoulders and pulled her flush against him. “I want you. I want to have sex
with you. And you want me. I didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday. So,
what’s it going to take, Abilene? Let’s negotiate.”
    Good Lord. Abby shut her eyes. “I can’t.”
    “Can’t or won’t?” Cade was damn confused.
    “Can’t.” She hung her head.
    “Explain.” Seeming desperate, he ground
out the word.
    Bam ! The door opened, letting in a blanket of
frigid air and a cloud of cloying perfume. “Abby? Abby Grace?” The voice was
grating and then it turned suspiciously amused. “Oh, my! What do we have here?”
    Abby had to smile. This was the first time
she’d ever been glad to see her future sister-in-law. “Nothing, Pam, not a
thing. I was just considering putting down a bothersome polecat.” The polecat
chuckled. “Cade was helping me decide.” She met his hot stare. “Excuse me,
Cade. The bride needs me. We’ll have to talk another time.”
    Abby left with Pam, listening as she
talked wedding plans, guest list and last minute problems that didn’t seem to
be nearly the crisis that Bridezilla made them out to be. Abby made notes and
promised to make some phone calls that would ensure the flowers were perfect
and the chocolate fountain ran warm with Godiva. Only once did Pam stop talking
and that was when she got a text, a text that unnerved her so much that she
stumbled over the only patch of smooth ground they covered.
    “Something wrong?” Abby asked.
    Pam still stared at the screen. “No, just
an old friend I haven’t heard from in a while.”
    “Is she coming to the wedding?” She tried
to show interest in the woman who would soon be family.
    “No, no,” Pam shook her head. “He won’t be
coming. That wouldn’t be a good idea at all. ”
    He? Interesting. “Not everyone likes
weddings, they make some people sad.” Abby muttered. Unfortunately, she knew
that from experience.
    “My wedding is going to be the event of
the season!”
    Abby grimaced. It was her opinion that Pam
was more excited about the ceremony than she was about marrying Jase.
    And that was a crying shame.

Chapter Four
     
     
     
    “Yuck!” The small boy spit out a mouthful
of food on the floor. “Gross!”
    As the catering staff hurried to clean up
the mess, Abby elbowed Trevor. “Look, even Pam’s nephew doesn’t like the vegan
food.”
    “Be nice, Sis,” Jase spoke in her ear and
Abby jumped. “Little Harold doesn’t like anything. You can’t judge culinary
cuisine by a two year old.”
    “Don’t sneak up on me!” Abby whacked the
prospective groom. “I’m trying to be nice.”
    “It’s just so hard for our sister to be
nice.” Shiloh sipped his scotch and water. “Is Cade still alive? I hear he’s
been rooming with you.”
    Abby kept a poker face. Cade was driving
her crazy, but in an entirely different way than normal. “Oh, he’s here
somewhere. I haven’t killed him. Yet.” She’d been watching his every move,
actually. When he’d gone outside a moment ago, it had been all she could to
keep from following him. But she’d gone out of her away to avoid him. They
hadn’t talked since she’d made her escape with Pam earlier in the day.     
    Jase ruffled her hair as if she were the
same age as Harold. “Cade and Abby sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.” She tried
to elbow him, but he grabbed her in a headlock. “Stop it, squirt. That’s what
you get, having six brothers twice your size.”
    “Five brothers, I have five brothers.” She
had to make that distinction and she didn’t want to give the reason why a lot
of thought at the moment. “And paybacks can be excruciating.” Abby threatened,
and then laughed as Jase turned her loose. Their father was giving them an evil
eye. Even though they were all adults, Sam still could