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Accidentally broke it, although I don’t really regret that.”
    He blinked, and then grinned. “Broke his wrist, huh? Good for you.”
    Tanya’s warm blue eyes widened in surprise. After a second, she drew in a breath and said, “As your sister mentioned, I really do need this job. At least for a month or so. After that, I’ll try to look for something else.”
    He should hold firm to his decision about not hiring her. But, damn, she had the most amazing eyes. Amazing body, too, and that was really a potential problem for him. No, he couldn’t have her staying anywhere around here.
    “ Drew?” Mandy prodded.
    “ A month,” he blurted out, wanting to bite his betraying tongue off when he’d meant to say no . He set his cup on the counter and strode toward the back door. “Tomorrow. You can start tomorrow.”
    He stopped, remembering that his sister had overstepped the boundaries of his privacy and had shoved this blond walking temptation into his personal space. He met and held Mandy’s gaze. “We’ll talk about this later. In private. I’ve got some ranch chores to attend to right now.” His “talk” would involve mainly applying his hand to her bottom, and he was pretty sure from the way her eyes widened that she understood.
    A glance at Tanya caught him by surprise. Her eyes had widened, too. Instinctively he realized that she understood his hidden warning to his sister. Almost immediately he envisioned taking that little blond over his knee, and it wouldn’t take much of a reason for him to want to do that. It wouldn’t take but the barest hint of invitation and he’d want to take that same woman to his bed. Lord a’mighty, he was in more trouble than he’d first thought!

Chapter Two
     
     
    Tanya sat on one of the bar stools lining the longest eating bar she’d ever seen in a kitchen while Mandy stirred a pot of beef stew across the room. They’d unloaded Tanya’s few belongings in the little log cabin, and then driven into Dodge City to buy some things to help feminize the place. They’d also picked up groceries. Mandy had wanted to smooth over some rough edges with her brother by cooking for him. The smells swirling around the kitchen almost made Tanya’s mouth water. Almost. She couldn’t get past the idea of beef parts swimming around in all that mix of vegetables and broth.
    Mandy turned her way and shook her head in amusement. “These men—including my brother—work hard. They need sustenance, lots of it. Good thing cooking for him isn’t part of your job description.”
    “ I’m a good cook,” Tanya protested, pinching off a piece of rice cake to nibble on.
    “ I’d hardly call warming up pre-cooked vegetarian dishes in the microwave cooking . Certainly Drew wouldn’t.”
    Mandy’s cell phone rang and she dashed across the room to answer it, saying, “Drew should be coming in any minute now. Can you get the cornbread out of the oven? Put the stew in a bowl? While I take this call.”
    Abandoning the rice cake, Tanya went to do as asked. She had to hold back the urge to gag, though, as she poured the stew into a bowl and noted all the chunks of beef. She’d just put the bowl on the counter where Mandy claimed her brother ate all of his meals when heavy footsteps came their direction.
    “ Damn that smells good,” he said in a tone of pure male pleasure. He glanced at Tanya, with a curious look. “You cook this?”
    “ Hardly!” she countered and took a seat again, as far from the bowl of stew as possible. To settle her stomach, she picked up the rice cake and took a bite.
    Mandy disconnected her call and carried over glasses of iced tea. “Tanya doesn’t eat meat. She has a hard time even being around the smell of it cooking.”
    Drew looked horrified. His gaze shifted to the cake in Tanya’s hand. “Is that one of those taste-like-cardboard vegetarian things I’ve heard about?”
    Tanya rolled her eyes and primly said, “They’re quite tasty actually. Better