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his head. “Tuesday, max.”
    “What?” Ethan asked.
    “You’ll do her by Tuesday,” Danny said.
    Ethan shook his head. “I don’t think so. She’s not my type.”
    “Oh, please, like that’s ever stopped you. Besides, when you talk about her, you get that look.” Derek said.
    “What look?” Ethan said. “I don’t have a look.”
    “Yes, you do,” Danny said around a mouthful of pasta. “It’s that look you get when you get a whiff of fresh pussy, and you won’t stop until you’re nose-deep.”
    “Jesus, not in front of Dad,” Ethan said, the back of his neck on fire. Ridiculous that at this stage in his life he could still be so easily embarrassed. But if anyone had the power to reduce his thirty-two-year-old adult self to an awkward teenager, it was his brothers. Fortunately, Dad seemed to be paying no attention, his mind on his upcoming trip.
    “I still say Wednesday,” Derek said. “If she’s as smart as we think, it’ll take awhile for her to fall for Ethan’s usual game. He’ll have to be more creative.”
    “No way.” Danny shook his head. “The nerdy ones are the fastest to fall. They’re not used to the same attention the bar bunnies get, so she’ll be all flattered to have a guy like Ethan sniffing around.”
    Ethan shook his head. Little did they know that despite the attraction Ethan sensed, Toni was throwing up barriers left and right. Ethan suspected Derek was right, that Toni wasn’t about to fall for Ethan’s regular tricks. It would take Ethan more than a few days to get her where he wanted her.
    But he didn’t want to talk about Toni, not even with his brothers.
    It was stupid, really. Usually he had no problem indulging in a little locker-room talk with them. It wasn’t like he gave detailed play-by-plays about his dates, but they were guys, and guys talked.
    But he didn’t want them talking that way about Toni, even in jest.
    Nevertheless, their comments summoned up a whole host of raunchy images of her. Naked on top of him. Naked underneath him. Naked on her knees in front of him, staring seductively up through those sexy-librarian glasses at him as she took his cock between those luscious lips. He shifted in his chair, mentally cursing Derek and Danny for getting him all riled up.
    His cell phone rang, and as though he’d summoned her, Toni’s number flashed on the display.
    “I found out who T-Bone is,” she said without preamble. “His name is Toby Frankel, and from what I’ve been able to dig up, I’m afraid he has Kara into some bad shit.”
    “I’ll be right over.” He hung up and met his brothers’ curious stares. “Speaking of Toni, I need to get back to her place. Make sure you wear your watch when you leave tomorrow, and make sure Dad has his.”
    Danny gave him a “duh” look and flashed his wrist where his watch was securely fastened. All three of the brothers and their father had tiny tracking devices in their watches so they could keep track of each other’s locations at all times. After what happened with their mother, they were a little anal about keeping tabs. But Danny had an annoying habit of taking off into the mountains for “private time” and leaving his watch at home.
    “You don’t forget your rubbers,” Danny shot back.
    “She’s a colleague. Nothing else.”
    Danny’s eyebrows wiggled lasciviously, and he pulled his wallet out of the back pocket of his cargo shorts. “Fuck Tuesday, my money’s on tonight.”
    Derek was still mulling over his bet when Ethan flashed them the finger and walked out the front door.

C HAPTER 6
    T ONI OPENED THE door before he had time to knock. She felt Ethan give her a quick once-over and was glad she’d taken the time to change her clothes. Even so, his intense blue gaze scorched through the thin material of her T-shirt. His lips pulled up at the corner as he took in the cartoon girl and the caption “Little Miss Sunshine.”
    “Cute,” he said. She prayed he couldn’t see the way