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circled around her, Lucy sighed for a different reason—pure pleasure. “This feels fantastic.”
    The steam from the tub made his golden-brown hair curl at the ends. She’d thought he was sexy as hell with the longer hair and furry beard. When she’d expressed an interest in knowing what he looked like without the beard, he’d shaved it off and revealed a stunningly gorgeous face that she never tired of looking at. Looks aside, however, she was even more attracted to his sweetness, irreverent humor and undeniable charm.
    “Seriously fantastic,” he said of the warm water and pulsating jets. “I’ve spent all week splitting wood, and I’m sore as hell.”
    “How can you be sore when you do so much of that?”
    “I overdid it the last few days so I could take some time off.”
    She realized he’d done that so he could spend more time with her. “I don’t want you to get hurt on my behalf.”
    “I didn’t get hurt, and it was well worth the extra hours so I could relax this weekend and stay on schedule, too.” He glanced at her, the picture of innocence. “But I wouldn’t say no to a massage of my aching muscles.”
    She rolled her eyes. “A little transparent much?”
    Now he batted his long eyelashes, which made him even harder to resist. “I’m a hard-working guy looking for some TLC from his lady.”
    “Actually, you’re a schemer trying to get my hands on you.”
    “And that’s different how, exactly?”
    “Come over here.”
    “Oh yay!” He was like a delighted little boy who’d gotten his way, which made him downright irresistible.
    She’d found him difficult to resist from the very beginning. He’d walked into the conference room at his family’s store the day Cameron was presenting the first cut of the website they’d done for the store, and Lucy had noticed him immediately. She’d never been drawn to the rugged-brawny type until she’d taken one look at Colton Abbott, and all her girl parts stood up to take notice, which had never happened before.
    Then his parents invited her to join them for dinner, and he’d tagged along. Her fascination had only grown over dinner at the Abbotts’ favorite Italian restaurant, where Colton had eaten enough for two grown men. She’d begun to wonder over dinner what he’d look like under the beard that hid what appeared to be an exceptionally handsome face. She hadn’t been wrong about that.
    “What’re you thinking about?” he asked as he settled between her legs and leaned back against her, sighing with pleasure as she began to knead his shoulder muscles.
    “The day we met.”
    “What about it?”
    “I wondered what you’d look like without the beard.”
    “As I recall, you said as much to me a couple of weeks later, and I ended up shaving it off.”
    “After you went out to get a pair of hedge clippers.”
    His laughter echoed through the spacious bathroom. “For your information, they were
not
hedge clippers. And P.S., that was a critical mistake in our attempt to keep our ‘friendship’ a secret. Everyone was suspicious after I got rid of the beard I’ve had since high school.”
    “I’m not sorry. I was right about what was under all that hair.”
    “Oh do tell. What was under there?”
    “An exceptionally handsome face.”
    “I was quite surprised by that myself. I hadn’t seen it in years.”
    Laughing, Lucy poked him in the ribs. “You’re so full of yourself.”
    “Hey, Luce?”
    “Yeah?” she asked, immediately unnerved by the serious way he said her name.
    “Tell me again why we thought it was such a great idea to keep this a big secret from everyone.”
    “You know why.”
    “Tell me anyway. I keep forgetting.”
    “Since I don’t believe that for a minute, are you asking me because you want to change our status?”
    He ran his hand back and forth through the water, sending waves across the wide tub. “Maybe.”
    Lucy swallowed hard. “We kept it a secret because we didn’t want everyone involved in