Sleepless in Savannah

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Authors: Rita Herron
man could gawk at her voluptuous figure.
    Worse, once Sophie had sucked the hulk into her web of desire, would she decide he was worthy of a walk down the aisle?
    He cursed a blue streak, banning the images from his mind as he attacked the master suite bathroom. He did not care if Sophie wound up marrying the hulk.
    No, not one bit.
    Marriage gave him the willies. Why, at Maddie and Chase's impromptu ceremony, he'd had to take antacids to keep his last meal down. And owning a house was another trap—his own parents had been so in debt with their own when they'd died that Lance had had to forgo college in an effort to work, take care of Maddie and Reid, and get the house in good enough condition to sell.
    Jazzy loped up beside him and glared down her pink nose, green eyes scrutinizing. He ignored the cat and ripped at the pipes with a vengeance. He'd focus on completing these renovations as quickly as possible and avoid her as well. He might not want marriage, but he couldn't help but want Sophie in other ways.
    What man with any degree of testosterone wouldn't want Sophie Lane?
    The way her big eyes danced with mischief screamed sex appeal. And though he normally preferred long hair, the way that short spiked black hair swirled around her ivory skin made him itch to claw his hands in it and muss it up. And those voluptuous breasts... God, they would swell in his hands....
    He turned the wrench with gusto, but a screw fell out and the pipe cracked, then literally broke in two in his hands. "Blast it all to hell."
    The cat screeched and darted out of the way, skidding on the floor as she barreled around the corner. Water gushed out, pelting Lance in the face and drenching his clothes.
    He fought the onslaught and reached down to turn off the water, frowning when he noticed the pipe had already been welded in three different places. Someone had done a shoddy job of temporarily glossing over the earlier damage to the house, most likely to make the sale. What other cosmetic repairs had been done to the place to hide major problems?
    It reminded him of most marriages he knew. All appeared well on the surface but who knew what problems lay below. Take his parents' relationship. His father had been a well-known doctor, his mother a doctor's wife. They had both seemed happy.
    Then they'd died.
    His life had been snapped in two. He had been afraid the courts would put Maddie and Reid into some foster home, so he'd taken over the responsibility of raising them, but he'd been young himself.
    Of course Maddie and Chase seemed happy. But their relationship was still in the honeymoon phase. Once that passed...
    He didn't want to think about it. And he couldn't imagine himself married. He'd probably only disappoint Sophie if he got involved with her.
    She'd want sophisticated, the jet-setter type. And he was nothing but a homeboy, a construction worker/developer who liked working with his hands, not hobnobbing in front of a camera.
    The fact that she'd use her own date as a TV show proved they weren't compatible. She would make a spectacle out of her personal relationship with Rory in front of thousands for everyone to see.
    Including him.
    Which absolutely proved that a relationship between him and Sophie would never work. If he ever chose to get romantic with a woman, he wouldn't make a public spectacle of himself or their relationship. He'd woo her in subtle, simple ways. She wouldn't need a cameraman or voters on her Web site to tell her he was the one.
    She'd know it every time he touched her.
    * * *
    Sophie tried to call Lucy on her cell phone, while she maneuvered her car through traffic. Her diet Coke sloshed on the console, and she swiped at it, grateful when her little sister answered. Lucy was breathless and laughing as if she weren't alone. She was obviously doing better in the love department than her big sister.
    "Lucy, sorry if this is a bad time, but I'm on my way to the airport. Deseree said you were coming to Savannah."
    "I

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