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cheek, settled the issue.
    "If you don't behave and let Liam help you, I'll get him to take you to emergency, and I'll sign your mulish butt in there myself. You know I can’t take the heat in that tub, so I can't go in with you, but if Liam doesn't mind, I'll sit with you while he checks out the change room for a pair of trunks , and then he can babysit you—"
    "Not a chance in hell."
    "You're not going in there alone, especially after the pills I gave you. Besides, I’m really not a hundred percent certain about you not having a concussion. You need someone close by in case there's a delayed reaction to the accident. Meantime, I'll get supper started. The girls will be home soon."
    "Liam ignored Sadie's frustrated sigh and set her down like a collector would handle precious china. Then he moved to do Bea's bidding.
    He supposed it was the least he could do, staying with her in the water and keeping her safe. After all, it was his stupidity and carelessness that put her in this devastating state.
    His interest in the little firebrand increased every time he laid eyes on her. She made his blood pump at such an alarming speed it left his heart racing and his mouth drier than the plains in the thirties.
    He grinned coldly when warnings bombarded and wouldn't be shut down.  “ So who's going to keep her safe from you?”
    As soon as he’d shut the door to the change room, Liam reacted. He swung around, waiting for his shadow to appear, and sure enough, there he was. Medium build, wearing his gay pirate’s outfit and the famous grin the actor used so convincingly.
    “What the hell do you want from me?”
    “I want you to leave her alone. She’s delicate , and you like to break things.”
    “Look, I’m not interested in women right now. I have a lot on my plate. But I can’t ignore the fact that I almost killed her today, now can I? If her mother asks me to help, then, buddy, you better believe that’s exactly what I’m going to do.”
    “You didn’t kill her because I stopped you. And, buddy , women have always flocked around you like you were chocolate, but this girl’s different.  She has no ammunition against your experience.”
    “I beg to differ. She’s shot me down at every turn.” The droll note in Liam’s voice made the angel smile happily.
    “I should think so. She sees right through ya, she does.”
    “Then go away and let me do what I have to do.”
    “And that be…”
    “I’ll help her in the hot tub, and then leave.” Liam blinked and the spirit disappeared—poof, gone! Except for his parting shot that echoed in the small room:
    “Just be sure that you do. The less time she spends around a bounder like you, the better.”
     
     
    ***
    Both women's eyes widened when he returned dressed in the only choice of bathing suit that would suffice—a cargo camouflage style that, no matter how tight he tied the strings, hung low on his hips. Their stares made him uncomfortable, especially when he realized he'd pulled in his gut and tightened his chest muscles. 
    “ Do us a favor then, Stud. Don’t let it swell your head.” So, his ghoulish friend hadn’t left after all, probably just hovered around, spying like some otherworldly peeping tom.
    “Sticks and stones…”
    Liam answered . “You can do me a favor…go away!” The spook’s laugh faded, then disappeared.
    Bea whistled softly and caught his attention. Stares always followed him whenever he bared his toned and tanned body. Usually it annoyed, but today he felt kinda flattered until Sadie's words left him rather deflated.
    Sadie slipped off her cover-up clumsily and then said, "Are you waiting for a drum roll?"
    He pulled out the smart-ass, one-sided grimace he used when the guys in his troop gave him the gears, lifted her up in his arms, and strode up the steps, intending to gently lower her into the bubbles.
    Instead, an outside force gripped him, and before he knew it, he’d dumped her in without any warning.
    Once she