“Hello?”

“Ms. West. It’s Lance at the front gate. You have a visitor. Cutter Bryant?”

She vaguely remembered that being the name of her new body- guard. Jolie Quinn, the clothing designer dressing her for the next season of the show, had passed her Cutter’s contact info. She and the savvy woman had met during her first fitting and they were fast be- coming friends. So when she’d said during a moment of weakness a few days ago that she needed a bodyguard, Jolie had wholeheartedly recommended the man.

“Send him up.”

Taking one last look around the house for clutter, she shoved a few magazines back in a stack, then she adminished herself. She was hiring him, not rolling out her southern hospitality for a houseguest.

Two minutes later, an SUV rolled up her graveled front drive and parked beside the truck she’d driven here from Texas and insisted on keeping because it reminded her of home. He exited the vehicle. Through the front window, Shealyn couldn’t see him much since dusk was falling and what was left of the sun backlit him, obscuring his face. But his shape was enough to catch her breath. He was what her former castmate, Jessica Jarrett, had called a Dorito. His wide shoulders and powerful chest tapered down to a lean waist and downright narrow hips. Yum...

As he secured the vehicle and stepped onto the wide porch, a litany of pleas rolled through her head. Please be ugly. Please be a jerk. Please be gay… She was lonely and a little bit vulnerable, damn it. She didn’t need temptation in her life.

When he knocked, she pulled the big arched door open, a subdued welcome already planned. The moment she ladie eyes on him, her mind went blank and her heart started pounding ninety-to-nothing.

Dear lord. That was a man. Sandy hair, piercing dark eyes, and a mouth that looked wholly capable of sin. That was before she noticed his muscles all but bulged from his black T-shirt. He looked big everywhere.

“Ms. West?” His deep voice sounded gentle and low, but she already knew from reading his résumé that he could be a dangerous bastard.

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