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last one.” She threw her head back
and laughed. He should have been embarrassed but he wasn’t.
    “How convenient. Sounds like
scuttlebutt to me. Where we going now?”
    She
thought he was bluffing, “St. Croix. I’m serious.”
    “Aha.
Keep dreaming. I need fencing supplies.”
    He
liked this and he liked her. “Let’s go out to dinner sometime.”
    “Absolutely not! Uh-ah, no way,”
she answered firmly, as she slowly and purposefully shook her head back and
forth, punctuating each syllable and word.
    Don’t
give up. Undeterred, he continued. “Why not? I meet my
guy friends for dinner from time to time.”
    Unimpressed,
she shrugged her shoulders. “That’s nice, you should
give them a call, go hangout.”
    He
laughed. And here was the one woman who wouldn’t care one lick if he went out
with the guys and had a good time. This should get her. “If not dinner, then
how about we meet for drinks some evening?”
    Snapping
her head around, she looked at him like he’d lost his mind. “Hell
no! Were you like, kicked in the head or something when you were little?”
    She
was pretty damn funny. Grinning, loving that sexy voice of hers and wanting to
hear her talk, he ignored her question and asked, “Why not?”
    She
went back to looking at the road. “Because.”
    “Because
why?”
    “Because
I said no, that’s why.”            
    “You’re
making this hard.”
    “ Mmhmm ,
exactly.”

 
    *****

 
    Sitting
at the breakfast table the next morning, Nik started in. “I think she could
take you in a fight.”
    Kris
shook his head, perplexed by the woman called Dani. “Yeah, you think?”
    Nik
nodded. “Yep, and I believe it when she says she can change you from a bull to
a steer in under minute. One crack of that whip and your nuts are toast. She’s
a handful, you may want to wear a cup, you know, protect the family jewels.”
    There
were chuckles all around.
    “You
gave up pretty damn quick,” Kris said snarling, narrowing his eyes on Nik.
    “Hell
yeah, it’ll be more fun watching you go down. You’re hooked, and damn near
whipped already. You need a nut cup and a bib. Linnie give him one of the
baby’s bibs.”
    “Excuse
me?” He was not whipped, he would never be whipped. They all ignored him.
    “It’d
be too small,” Linnie answered, laughing at his expense. “We could use a
burping cloth though, that would work.”
      “A bib? I don’t need no bib,” he responded firmly, annoyed with their ribbing.
    “ Ahh , yeah, you do,” Nik answered, nodding his head while
exaggerating his words. “You’re slobbering like a baby and it’s embarrassing.
Next you’ll be holding her purse while she shops the mall.”
    More chuckles.
    “Shut
up, you’re an ass.”
    “An
ass with nuts, thank you very much.”
      He ignored them. Taking his egg in one big
bite, he chewed and swallowed as he sat thinking of things, the topic of her
lingering in the air. “She’s a tough cookie. She won’t allow me to treat her
like a lady, she won’t answer any personal questions, and she refused to go out
to dinner or meet for drinks. And it’s abundantly clear, she’s the boss and means business, no messing around. It’s her way or no way,
and I see no way out. My hands are tied, so I ain’t worried about holding her purse or going shopping as I’m going nowhere fast.”
    “You’ve
met your match,” Jake said, high fiving Nik. “I’m going to love watching this.”
    “Yeah
me too,” Nik added with a glimmer in his eye, happy to poke the rattlesnake.
“You’ve always been domineering, but she’s the one with the whip. It’ll be
entertaining watching her knock you on your ass.”
    Pausing,
he glared at his two smiling brothers. “You two are starting to piss me off
with the less than flattering characterizations.”
    “ Awww , poor baby. Dad get your
hanky, Kris’s feelings are hurt.”
    “You
need to find out where her interests lie, go from there,” Jules