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The first thing Nick Tyler saw when he entered the building of the trucking company he ran with his nephew was a small, but perfect feminine rear end encased in khaki trousers. It was stuck straight up in the air while the woman attached to it bent under the old metal desk one of his nieces had sourced for them to use in the main office.
The woman was muttering something dire as she reached for whatever she just couldn’t grab.
“I could help you with that, if you’d like,” Nick said. He mostly just wanted to figure out who it was under his desk.It was a very nice rear end, after all.
The woman yelped, bumped her head, and stood quickly.She stared at him.
He stared back.
She had hair that warred between red and brown that she’d pulled up in a twist. Big light-blue eyes stared at him and a soft pink mouth parted slightly. An absolutely perfect-looking mouth.
She was damned gorgeous. It was rather hard to miss.
“Nick? Wow. I think we both got old.”She gave a rueful grin that told him exactly who she was. She had sweet dimples and a smile that was crooked enough to say she liked to break the rules just a little bit.
Just like before.
Robin. It really was her. Staring right back at him.
He had always liked how little Robin Patton looked.
She hadn’t changed much. Just gotten older. A little curvier, but that was a good thing. A very good thing from where he was standing.
She had to be thirty-eight or -nine now.
“Robin, it’s good to see you.”
“You, too, Nick.” She eyed him warily. Like she was afraid of him? Robin hadn’t been afraid of anything.She knew what she wanted and she went after it.
She’d been pure hell on wheels once.
Until that damned Sheriff Gunderson had started harassing her. She’d been just a kid.Gunderson had been old enough to be her father. Nick had never forgotten the terror in her eyes that night he and Phil had found her and Gunderson alongside the highway.
That had been the deciding factor. She’d left town then—and hadn’t come back.
The last place he’d expected to see her was in his own office, acting as if she belonged there.
His nephew Chandler had let him know he’d hired a new secretary last week.Nick had been so busy with booking a large run that he hadn’t paid much attention.
Nick suspected he was looking at his new secretary right now.
Damn.
“Settling in ok?” He wasn’t sure he wanted Robin Patton working with him every single day.She was going to be highly distracting.
Just like before.
She remembered. Just like he did.
Robin had been taunting him, tempting him on purpose.
He could see the memories of those two stolen kisses in the blue eyes staring at him now.She’d been so sweet—and it had been Robin who had kissed him. Had put those hands of hers places she had no business putting them—back then.
Nick had done the right thing both times. Probably a bit more harshly than he should have. He’d just…wanted her to understand. She had to stay away from him back then. Or he would do something totally stupid. She hadn’t been ready. He’d known that. He was nine years older—when she’d been almost nineteen, that had mattered.
This woman had been enough to tempt a saint into doing something totally stupid. Nick had never missed that.
