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her, not just inside of bed but outside it, James’ cool, master-of-his-domain attitude left a lot to be desired. She often questioned her attraction to him, wondered if she subconsciously searched for the father-figure she’d lost when her father dressed her down for lying with a Double R wrangler he thought much too old for her.
    Presently, Tamara cleared her throat. “Jay, you said?”
    “Yep. I’m your ride to The Double R . ” He jutted his chin toward the suitcase at her feet. “That it?”
    “And this.” She nudged the matching Keepall on her shoulder, and before she could object, he took the bag from her shoulder. He Ebook piracy is stealing. It is a federal offense.
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    flipped his hat back onto his head and slung the strap of her bag over his shoulder in one fluid movement. “You don’t have—”
    “It’s not a problem, really.” He looked at her, his expression so joyless and stern he reminded her of her father when he’d burst into the barn on her and Noah.
    Tamara’s stomach flipped over.
    A grown woman, self-sufficient and thriving, Tamara yet doubted whether she could go through with this without some sort of liquid fortification. In fact, she decided she could use a stiff drink before heading out to McCoy. That is, a stiff drink for now. She’d welcome a stiff something else later if Jay proved amenable. “I’d like to make a stop before we go to the ranch.” Thinking about it now, she didn’t know why she hadn’t had a drink on the plane.
    “You have some place specific in mind?”
    Hmm, she loved his lazy drawl and caught herself sneaking looks at his profile as they headed for the exit. She let her gaze drift down to his left hand to check his ring finger. She released a breath when she found it empty. “Is there a bar nearby?”
    “We have a saloon at The Double R . ”
    She shook her head. “I’m not ready to go to The Double R yet. Is that going to be a problem?”
    He paused to look at her, his gaze raking her from head to toe and leaving a trail of heat over her whole body as if he had touched her with his hands or tongue.
    Tamara put her hands on her hips, more for something to do with them than to be defiant, although there was that too. When she noticed Jay quirk his brow in apparent amusement, she lifted her chin and gave him her best intimidate-the-witness-on-the-stand glare for good measure. “Well, is it?”
    “Not a problem at all, ma’am.”
    She couldn’t put her finger on it, but she found something familiar about him. Her body tingled with awareness as if they shared a past.
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    course, it had been nearly twenty years since she’d been back, and he couldn’t have been more than twenty-five. He’d probably just been a toddler when she’d made her explosive departure, so it wasn’t possible she could know him or him her.
    Tamara decided she wanted to get to know him—at least in the biblical sense.
    Intellectually, she realized herself on the rebound, but her body refused to have a nickel in that dime, hot for the young cowboy like she hadn’t been for any man in a very long time.
    She followed him to his vehicle, a spanking new, shiny black Chevy Silverado. If he had been a man of smaller stature, she would have automatically thought he tried to compensate for some shortcoming with his choice of truck, but Mr. Jay had no shortcomings as far as she could see. Not a one at all.
    Tamara licked her lips as he walked around the truck to open the back door and bent at the waist to carefully stow her bags on the floor of the truck. She watched the way his back and shoulder muscles flexed beneath his white western shirt. He had the nicest ass too, round, firm and beckoning her to sink in her nails and