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her arms to return to her sides, she sighed. “Garrett...”
    “What will that obsessed client of yours, Missy Something, do without your currant muffins? What will I do? Hmm, Kate? It’s a tragedy to think about it.”
    “I don’t want to argue about this now, Garrett.” She rubbed her temple.
    “All right, Katie.”
    She blinked.
    “All right?” she repeated.
    Confused by his easy concession, which was not like Garrett at all, she suddenly heard him shift on the bed and spread his big body down the length beside her.
    Eyes widening in horror, she heard him plump one of the two pillows.
    “All right, Katie. We’ll talk about it in the morning,” he said in that deep, slurred voice.
    She heard him shift once more, as if to get more comfortable. Sitting on the bed, frozen in disbelief, she managed to sputter, “You’re not planning to stay here the night, are you?”
    He made a move with his head that she couldn’t see but rustled the pillow.
    “Garrett, you moron, go to your room, ” she said, shoving at his arm a little.
    He caught her hand and squeezed it. “Relax, you little witch. I’ll go back to my room when I stop spinning. Come here and brace me down.” He draped his arm around her shoulders and drew her to his side, and Kate was too stunned to do anything but play rag doll.
    Minutes passed as she remained utterly still, every part of her body excruciatingly aware of his powerful arm. Garrett was not the touchy-feely brother; that was Julian. In fact, Garrett seemed to do his best not to touch her. But his guard was down and he seemed not to want to let go this time.
    She frowned when he tightened his hold and slid his fingers up beneath the fall of her hair. Cupping her scalp, he pressed her face down to his chest.
    “Garrett,” Kate said, poking on his abs. They were hard as rocks under his shirt.
    He breathed heavily. Oh, no. Seriously. Was he asleep?
    “Garrett?”
    She groaned when there was no response and wondered if she should move into Garrett’s room and leave him to sleep here, because she was certainly not dragging him to his own room. He must weigh double what she did, even if he was all muscle, judging from the hardness of the arm around her and the abs she’d just poked.
    Instead, she grumbled and complained under her breath, and ended up using her pillow as a barrier between them. She eased his arm from around her, setting it on the pillow. His hand was enormous between her fingers, and for a moment, she seemed to be unable to let go, kept her hand over his just to feel that he was not a figment of her imagination. Then she realized what she was doing and that it was stupid and foolish, and she yanked her hand away.
    Damn him.
    He was going to do everything possible to keep her in Texas, she knew.
    But he wasn’t going to take Florida away from her.
    Oh, no, her life had stopped revolving around Garrett Gage ever since she’d decided she didn’t want him anymore, and now she’d be damned before she let him screw up her perfect plans, too.

Three
    M onday morning, business at the San Antonio Daily was more intense than normal.
    Usually Landon, the eldest Gage brother, would bark about the grammar mistakes in that day’s print edition. Julian John, the youngest, was no longer working at headquarters since he’d started his own PR firm, but he still occasionally dropped in and offered his services in weekly status meetings. Lately, Garrett had been focused on maneuvering their assets to make one of their greatest takeovers, one that would absorb Clarks Communications into the Daily and the rest of their holdings.
    Which was why Cassandra Clarks was visiting today. She sat in Garrett’s office, quietly eating the remaining muffin from the batch Kate had sent to the office this morning.
    It made Garrett grumpy to see that muffin go.
    But he feigned indifference as he flipped to the next page of the current stock statistics for Clarks Communications. Still, he wasn’t really