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dangerous combination.  Thankfully, if she were to head out of town this weekend, he wouldn’t be tempted to knock on her door any longer.  He could get back to focusing on work and let his days fall back to their usual routine. 
    Although, he had no idea what tennis balls and basements had to do with anything. 
    “Honey…”
    She lifted her hand to stop whatever he was about to say.  “Okay, here it is.  You’re gorgeous,” she started off, then rubbed her hand over her forehead.  “No, that’s not the best way to start this off.”  Andie took another breath and turned sideways so that she wasn’t looking at him.  “I think you’re a very handsome man and I’m very attracted to you.  I was wondering if you might want to have dinner with me tomorrow night.  At my place.”  She blinked, then looked up at him.  “Well, at your place.  I mean, at your place that I’m renting from you.  Where I’m living.”  She closed her eyes and pressed her lips together.  “I will cook dinner for you if you would like to have dinner with me.  Tomorrow night.”
    Knox stared at her, trying to sift through all the things she was saying.  “You’re asking me out?” he finally realized.  The relief that surged through him with that realization was strong and swift.  She wasn’t leaving?  She was still going to try and live here? 
    Good for her! 
    Wait!  No!  Not good!  She had to go!  She had to leave, to go back to where she belonged.  Her words were wrong.  She’d said the wrong thing!  “Honey, you’re asking me to dinner at your place and you’re going to cook?”
    Andie continued to press her lips together, not wanting to say anything else that might come out sounding stupid.  But the look in his eyes when she stared up at him made her stomach feel almost nauseous.  “You don’t have to!” she told him quickly.  “Which was why I wanted to ask you this out here.  That way, if you don’t want to have dinner with me, then no one in town will know anything about this silly conversation and everyone will just think I’m talking to you about the house that I’m renting from you, and maybe there are problems with something.  But they won’t know that I stupidly asked you out to dinner.” She took a deep breath.  “So if you would please just tell me no, then I can leave and go do that tennis ball thing.”
    Knox stared at her, hard, still confused and trying to catch up with all of her words.  “Tennis ball thing?”
    Andie shook her hands in the air as if they were explaining something, but then she shook her head and let her hands drop back to her sides with a huge expulsion of air through those pretty, red lips of hers.  “Don’t ask.  Just a protection thing that’s…well, not really protection but so far, it has worked and so I’m sticking with it.”
    He had no idea what she was talking about.  “A tennis ball thing?   You’re sticking with the tennis ball thing?”  How could tennis balls protect her? 
    She almost stomped her foot with frustration.  “Look, forget the tennis balls okay?  Just answer the question!  Do you want to have dinner with me tomorrow night or not?”
    He almost laughed at her spirited interruption.  He should tell her no.  He should just walk away from her because…well, because she was so adorable and sexy and his mind couldn’t get the image of her standing in front of him in those amazing silk negligées that she probably wore every night. 
    But those silver eyes staring up at him made the lust almost impossible to ignore.  Which was another reason why he should tell her no.  He couldn’t get involved with Andie Kingsley.  She was everything sweet and cute, and too damn sexy for his peace of mind.  And she was going to leave as soon as things got tough around here.  He didn’t want to get involved with a woman like Andie only to have her head out of town when she couldn’t handle life here in Alaska.
    But then