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slammed the door shut and flattened herself against it. Okay, this took
roving
and
hungry
to a whole new level.
    â€œWhat brings your fine self to our little ol’ doorstep?” Anna winked. “If you can’t think of anything, Bella and I got a few suggestions.”
    â€œI’m here on Mercedes’s behalf,” I said, dragging the situation back to safe territory. “She says you’re in need of a housekeeper?”
    â€œAnd you’re volunteering for the job?” The twins exchanged looks and giggled. “I have to tell you that there’s the best news the two of us have had in months.” Bella snagged the waistband of my jeans and tugged me close, squashing her boobs against my chest, her hot minty breath on my face. “You’re hired, honey, and you can start this very minute. I do declare this is a fine Monday indeed.”
    I pulled free and ran behind the davenport. I’d never run from anything in my life but this was a terrific time to start. “Look,” I said, sweat beading across my forehead. “We’re talking business here,” I explained. “Just business and Mercedes has an opening now that—”
    â€œConway Adkins bit the big one,” Bella said in a pout. “We know. You’re a lot more what we’re wanting at the moment but Mercedes is good, too. We’ve got to be thinking about Clive and Crenshaw moving on like they’re bound to be doing in the near future.”
    â€œYour lips to God’s ears,” Anna added on a weary sigh.
    â€œYou know about Conway?” I asked, trying for more information. “What do you think happened?”
    Anna sat on the arm of the blue brocade wingback chair and unsnapped the next button on her already low-cut silk blouse. “He treated the workers at the Olde Harbor Inn poorly, sizzled the sheets with married women, bribed and lied to get what he wanted, and even tried to talk Clive and Crenshaw out of marrying us, and once we did, he tried to get the boys to change their will. Do you believe he did such a thing? We’ve never forgiven him for it, I can tell you that. Even his own son doesn’t have any use for him unless it’s to wheedle money, like that’s going to happen. Conway cut Tucker off long ago.”
    â€œAre you sure?”
    â€œHoney, if it had to do with money and it’s in Savannah, we’re sure,” Anna said. “But let’s not talk about that now.”
    Bella curled her fingers in my hair, her lips inches from mine, the front door really, really far away. “The only thing that matters to Anna and me,” Bella whispered, “Is you showing up all tall and tan and delicious. Do you really put notches on your bed?”
    â€œNachos in bed?”
    â€œNotches to keep count of your . . . exploits. That’s what we hear and this is your chance to add two more,” Anna said, coming closer, sandwiching me in the middle with Bella.
    â€œMore? There isn’t more. There aren’t any.”
    â€œOh, there sincerely should be.” Anna ran her fingers along my jaw and Bella pinched my butt. I backed down the hallway behind me, hoping for a door at the other end, Bella and Anna stalking.
    â€œYou got the wrong idea,” I said.
    â€œWe like the idea we have just fine,” Anna purred. “Bella and I share everything. Give us five minutes and we’ll show you how much fun it can be.”
    I’d been in gang fights, bar brawls, and courtroom knock-down-drag-outs, but none of them held a candle to two women on the prowl. What the heck do I do now?

Chapter Three
    My back connected with a doorknob. If it was locked I was dead meat, and visions of old men with big loaded shotguns flashed through my brain. Clive and Crenshaw just might not believe I was here for a business-only house call. Anna’s eyes got beady, and there was a sneer on Bella’s lips. “You