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it’s something you normally do.”
    “How do you know what I normally do? I cancelled three appointments to replant your aunt’s garden, so don’t get a big head.”
    “You’re not very dedicated to your career are you?”
    “Right now,” she said, “I’m dedicated to convincing a certain socially demented man that he is the provoker and I am the provokee.”
    He sipped his coffee. “I wish you luck, particularly since I’m certain that provokee isn’t a word.”
    Phae watched him purse his sexy lips as he gently blew on his coffee. Sipping coffee shouldn’t have been erotic, but with this guy, it was. When he swallowed, she swallowed.
    “Ho! What do we have here?” a voice boomed from above them.
    Although she was disappointed to be interrupted from studying Kent’s lips, she smiled at the burly middle-aged man standing beside the table. She said hello and reluctantly introduced Kent to her Uncle Leon.
    “Well, then,” Leon said in his usual loud voice. “So you’re Genia’s nephew. Didn’t I see you in here yesterday? How’s that head of yours holding up, boy? All I see is a little bruise. Buck up and tell that aunt of yours to quit bending everybody’s ears about how you’re dying.”
    Kent shook his head. “I’m not fighting her. She’s too tough for me. Why don’t you go over to the house and tell her yourself? I’m sure she’s home. Or at least she was when I snuck out the back door an hour ago. Sneaking around has been the story of my life lately.”
    “Ho, ho, boy. This old rabbit’s foot I carry is real powerful, but not powerful enough to protect me from your aunt. I know better than to tangle with Genia. I figured since you’re family she’d take it easy on ya.”
    “Then you’re living in a fantasy world, sir.”
    Leon laughed and slapped Kent on the shoulder. “Yep, you’re okay, boy … for a billionaire. Ha-ha! That was the best one ever, Genia going around telling everyone how you’ve got a billion dollars! Why didn’t she go on and say you’re a trillionaire, or a goo-goo-gagillionaire. Ha-ha!”
    Kent chuckled. “Aunt Eugenia. She’s a caution.”
    Leon laughed some more then glanced at Phae. “So how do you know our girl here?”
    “I met her the other day when she replanted Aunt Eugenia’s garden.”
    “Don’t get any ideas about her, if you know what I’m saying. Yeah, she’s good-looking enough and she’s got a good heart, but when it comes to men, she’s mean, boy. Real mean. She doesn’t take no pity on a man, I hear, and seen some of it myself. She’ll tear ya down and leave ya whimperin’ before you can count to ten.”
    Kent glanced in question at the glowering Phae.
    “She doesn’t care about a man’s ego,” Leon continued, settling into his blustering tale, rocking back and forth on the balls of his big feet. “And she’s too darned independent. We gave up years ago on the hopes of her marryin’ and settlin’ down. When my mother died, she left all her money to Phae so she’d be taken care of in her old age. The rest of us were okay with that, we’re all that sure about our Phae. Why, one time this fellow took a liking to her and we all had high hopes that maybe somebody could handle her, but she knocked him down a peg or—”
    “I’d like to knock you off, Uncle Leon,” Phae broke in. “I thought you said you were in a hurry to get back to work.”
    “Did I? Oh, all right, girl. Don’t get mean on me.” He winked at Phae and gave Kent a hearty handshaking. “Well, as they say, hardware waits for no man. I’d best get back to the store. See you around, boy. Be careful that aunt of yours doesn’t catch you AWOL.”
    Phae and Kent watched his retreating bear-like figure.
    “Well, that was a new one,” Kent said.
    Phae winced. She needed to have a talk with her uncle about his opinions. “He’s a little eccentric. Also, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
    Kent blinked in wonderment. “Do you mean to tell