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their parents’ house. Being around Russell and Allison, the domestic scene had gotten both men thinking. On the way home, they walked in silence, neither of them willing to share their troubling thoughts with the other.
    Chase couldn’t get his head around how easily a playboy like Russell could go from dating everything in a skirt to suddenly becoming monogamous and loving it. Grant. Russell. Nik. They’d all been champion womanizers in their past lives. But now, they’d settled down, devoting all of their time and energy towards one single woman. He just didn’t get it.
    Variety was the spice of life. He liked women. No, he loved women. Too much to ever imagine himself being satisfied by just dating one of them.
    No, marriage might be for those other saps, but not for me. Someone has to keep the female population happy, and I’m willing to make the sacrifice.

Chapter 4
     
    Pearl woke up the next morning to the ringing sound of her cell phone. She answered it without paying any mind to the caller I.D. “Hello?”
    “Hi, this is Chase.”
    Chase? Who the hell? Oh yes, smoking hot shirtless guy. Given the straightforward way he’d propositioned her, she’d expected him to call her yesterday. But he hadn’t, and she’d gone to bed slightly disappointed.
    “Good morning. No shirtless workout this morning?”
    “I actually just returned from my morning run. And I was wondering if you’d like to go out with me to the Lighthouse Bar this evening?”
    Pearl tried to contain her victorious grin and answered coyly. “Tonight? Well…I don’t know…”
    “Look, Pearl, I’m sorry I didn’t call yesterday. I visited my sister and got so busy playing with my little nephew, I completely lost track of time.”
    “Your nephew?” she asked for clarification.
    “Yeah, little Jackson is nine months old and trying to master crawling.”
    She sat up in bed, her eyes wide with surprise. “So you like babies?”
    He didn’t seem like the kind of guy who would play with kids, let alone a baby. And his voice had taken on a softer tone when he talked about him.
    She felt her heart melt a little as she envisioned the bad boy she’d met yesterday playing with a baby. Now she was totally swooning over him – even more turned on by his behavior than by his sexy looks. A guy who loved babies? Was there possibly anything sexier than that?
    “Uhm…” Chase chuckled lightly. “I like my nephew. So about tonight?”
    “Let me check…” She paused to let him sweat it out a bit. “Okay…how about I meet you there around six o’clock?” Even if he was the hottest looking, baby-loving, swoon-worthy guy in the world, she wasn’t ready to give him her address just now.
    “Sounds good. Can’t wait to see those gorgeous grey eyes again.”
    Pearl hung up the phone, a goofy smile upon her face. Suddenly her day was looking so much brighter.
    As six o’clock rolled around, she found herself sitting at a hi-top table with a beer in front of her and a surprisingly funny and witty Chase by her side. The live band played upbeat and catchy music. Not too shabby for a tourist location out-of-season.
    Pearl tapped her foot to the rhythm of the music and was thoroughly enjoying herself and his company. Chase proved to be a good observer and asked her, “You want to dance?” as the band started into their second song.
    This time it was a slower ballad, and she almost had to giggle. He was a nice guy and she was here to let herself get distracted from reality and all her problems. What harm could a little dancing do?
    She nodded. “Okay. Let’s dance.”
    Chase pulled her from the stool with his strong arms and escorted her to the small dance floor, his palm pressing against her lower back. The warmth of his fingers sent her synapses flying off in a thousand different directions – all of them ending with her lying beneath him.
    While she still tried to get a grip on her attraction to him, he pulled her into his arms; letting his