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agreed.
    “You’ll show up tomorrow at Lucky’s with your ideas, and then once they are okayed by us you are to complete the dates within the week. Capisce ?”
    “We got it.” Candace nodded.
    “Okay. Great. Think romance, flowers, candlelight.” Reagan moved for the door to leave. “Chocolate-covered strawberries … lingerie.”
    At that, Candace gave her a gentle but firm shove out the door. “We got it.”
    “Okay.” Reagan laughed. “See you tomorrow.”
    Candace shut the door behind her. Turning back around, Candace found Tad had slid on his hat and grabbed his keys. “You’re still going?”
    “I’ll be back in a little bit,” Tad said as he brushed by her.
    “Okay, I won’t wait up.” Candace shot that back at him and headed away at the same time Tad mumbled something under his breath as he shut the door behind him.
    Candace didn’t know why she was so sore about it. She just didn’t like Brenda, or like that the woman was married—separated or not, married was married. She sighed and let the dogs back in the house, and then sat down to finish the game by herself.

Chapter 4
    Tad had picked Brenda up and was on his way to take her home as they drove to the other, hillier, side of town. The farther up you drove the higher the tax brackets went. Pulling up in front of Brenda’s huge white house, he put the car in park and waited for her to jump out to get her keys.
    She was a petite blonde with huge boobs that she’d had to purchase, along with a nose that had been sculpted, but she was hot. She looked great for her age and she knew it. And she liked them young. With a smoking body like hers, she could have them.
    “Want to come inside for a minute, help me find them?” Brenda asked, her hand high on Tad’s thigh.
    “No, I think I’ll just wait here.” He nodded for her to go ahead and run in and grab them.
    “I may need some help.” She leaned in and whispered into his ear as she trailed her hand up his inseam. She was a mere millimeter away from grabbing ahold of him.
    “I think you’ll be able to find them without me.” Tad’s hand came over hers to stall her progress.
    She pulled back and looked at him with shock written all over her face. “You don’t want to come in?”
    “No, sorry, not tonight.” He didn’t even dare look at her.
    “All right.” Brenda climbed out of his truck, quickly retrieved her spare set of keys, and climbed back into the cab. The ride back to her car was pretty silent. Pulling back up to her car in the parking lot where she’d left it, Brenda unbuckled herself and turned to him. “You didn’t have to come get me.”
    “Yeah, I know.”
    “But you did,” Brenda pointed out.
    “I’m a nice guy.” No, he wasn’t. He’d come with every intention of sleeping with her.
    “Yeah, real nice.” Brenda scoffed.
    Tad was irritated enough, mostly with Candace, mostly with himself. “You’re welcome.”
    “I could have called anyone,” she said angrily. “I didn’t have to call you. What? Are you sick of me?”
    Tad didn’t answer her because the fact that she was pissed about him not coming in sort of pissed him off a little. He wasn’t some toy of hers that she could use whenever she wanted to. He didn’t want to be anyone’s sure thing.
    “I didn’t have to have you come and get me. I could have called any other man in this town and he would have come—and I’m sure any of them would have come inside too. Not just lead me on.”
    “Well, maybe next time you should,” he said calmly.
    “What?” Brenda asked, wide-eyed.
    “Call someone else next time.” Tad leaned over and shoved her door open.
    * * * *
    It was a tied game in the ninth inning with the bases loaded … and Tad walked in the door. Candace jumped clear out of her skin. Popcorn went flying everywhere. The dogs rushed over themselves to get it eaten up.
    “Why are you so jumpy?” Tad asked, kicking his work boots off.
    “I wasn’t expecting you.” Candace