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Cutter’s Creek where there was no big competition and where the people might actually care about him enough to see his business succeed. Settling down and creating a real life someplace where people knew his name wasn’t too much to ask, was it?
    “I’m heading to bed for the night. Martha, where do you have me bunking?”
    She consulted her list again then smiled and handed him a key. “It’s the first one down the path on the left. Sleep well, dear.”
    He yawned deeper with each few steps. He was so tired after his long day meeting the rest of Travis’s family and…and everything with Tessa. So much for working on lesson plans tonight. Inside, the cabin was small and cozy with two single beds and a bathroom and not much else. One bed looked claimed already with the blanket pulled back and bags resting on top of the dresser next to it. He put his things next to the other and was in the process of taking off his shirt when the bathroom door opened.
    “Why are you getting naked in my cabin?”
    He didn’t have to turn around and see the face to recognize the voice—Tessa.

Chapter Three
    T essa stopped in the doorway at the sight of Logan’s bare back. That was not what she expected to see when she opened the bathroom door. When she’d gone into the bathroom to get cleaned up and ready for bed, the cabin had been empty, but now…
    Now she was staring at Logan, half naked. He turned to face her, and her gaze fell to his sculpted chest. Most guys she’d dated in the past had a decent thing going on. They’d had healthy physiques, not too muscular, not too flabby, and she’d been completely content with that.
    After all, she wasn’t a world-class supermodel or anything herself. Not that she minded how she looked. In fact, she was happy with herself, extra padding around the edges and all. She was a healthy weight and didn’t feel the need to be a stick figure. But Logan Ridley…well, he was a different species altogether.
    His clothing had done a fine job of hiding the treasure beneath his shirt. He’d looked of average build before, but now, seeing him in the flesh—heat flared in her cheeks, hotter with every passing second—he was far more than average. He could easily be a bodybuilder if he wasn’t already. She’d never actually seen six-pack abs in real life before, only on TV and in magazines of unrealistic celebrity man-candy. Until tonight.
    Logan had a perfect set of washboard abs and pecs that made her want to reach out and touch them. She wasn’t usually one to put much stock in how someone looked, but…
    Damn, he’s hot.
    But I have a boyfriend—fake boyfriend—and getting through this weekend without anyone finding out Richard isn’t real is more important than enjoying the hunkfest in front of me.
    If anyone found out the truth, her family would be unrelenting about her moving home. A serious relationship in the city was her safety net to help keep her there—her logical reason for not moving back.
    Feeling as if she were about to drool at any second, she snapped her mouth shut, pulled her lips into a cheery smile, and hoped he didn’t notice her eyeing him like a life-sized ice cream she wanted to lick from the tip of the cone to the sprinkles on top.
    “Apparently, this is my cabin too,” he said, finally answering the question. It felt like hours ago that she’d asked what he was doing getting naked in her cabin when it had surely only been seconds. Time had simply stood still while she’d ogled him inappropriately.
    “How do you figure that?”
    “Because this is where your mom told me I was sleeping for the next week and since she’s the boss around here, I didn’t think it would be polite to argue. You don’t have a problem sleeping with me, do you?”
    She swallowed hard as her mind went to naughty places. Her mind definitely wasn’t allowed to go to any of those places with Logan. “If by sleeping with you, you mean sharing a cabin, then nope.”
    He arched his