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    â€œThanks, but I’m currently between addresses.”
    â€œOh.” Chad glanced over at Noah, then back at her, as if trying to decide if they were a couple. “Well, uh, feel free to stop in anytime. We always have specials.”
    â€œThanks. I’ll remember that.” Picking up the plastic bag containing her purchases, she looked at Noah. “Ready?”
    He gave a curt nod.
    â€œBye!” Chad called. “Come back anytime!”
    She turned and smiled at him. “Bye.”
    Noah held the door for her as they left the store. Judging from the set of his jaw, she didn’t think he was very happy.From all signs, he was a wee bit jealous—of a boy barely old enough to shave. Amazing.
    Once upon a time she’d turned herself inside out trying to arouse Noah’s jealousy, to no avail. Now it seemed that she’d done it with one hand tied behind her back. She decided to test the waters. “He was a nice kid,” she said as they walked along the street.
    â€œThe way he was drooling I thought he might flood the store.” Noah sounded quite irritated. “I think with a little more encouragement he would have asked you out, even though you’re old enough to be his—”
    â€œBig sister? He wasn’t that much younger.”
    â€œHell, he probably got his driver’s license yesterday.”
    â€œHe looked more like eighteen or nineteen to me. And by the way, men date women who are ten years younger than they are and nobody says boo.”
    He stared at her. “Don’t tell me you’re interested in him?”
    She wasn’t, not even slightly, but a jealous Noah was something she’d waited years to experience. She wanted to savor the feeling a little longer. “Well, he was very sweet, and he had the cutest dimple in his chin.”
    â€œYou’re putting me on.”
    â€œOkay, maybe I am. But, for the record, I don’t think it would be the end of civilization if I happened to be interested in him. Some of my friends have deliberately taken younger lovers.”
    â€œProbably so they can lead them around by the nose.”
    Oh, this man had some things to learn, and she was just the gal to educate him. “I don’t think that’s the part of their anatomy they care about. A younger guy is usually so eager to please, and he generally has more…staying power.”
    Noah snorted. “Yeah, if you’re into quantity instead of quality.”
    She pitched her voice lower, so it came out a sultry purr. “Quality can be taught. And young men are so coachable.”
    The sound that came from Noah bordered on a growl.
    â€œWhat was that? I didn’t quite understand you.”
    â€œNothing.”
    She didn’t think it was nothing. She thought it was the sound of a male animal whose masculinity had been challenged. From her experience, a man so challenged would be looking for opportunities to prove his prowess. Even if he hotly insisted otherwise.
    Before long, Noah would beg to make love to her, and that would go a long way toward healing the hurt he’d inflicted, knowingly or not, when he’d rejected her sixteen-year-old advances. Maybe a few words of desperate need from him were all she needed to finally get him out of her system.
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    I T WAS ALL coming back to him now. Not only had he been tortured with feelings of lust where Keely was concerned, he’d also been ready to kill every guy who so much as looked at her. Leaving Saguaro Junction to follow the rodeo circuit had kept him away from Keely, but it had also saved a lot of cowboys from having their jaws busted.
    Apparently he hadn’t changed in that regard, either. The drugstore clerk was a mere baby, but when his hormone-driven attention had settled on Keely’s breasts, Noah had been ready to take the kid apart. He’d have to work on that reaction, because men