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despite his flaws as a role model. “How old were you?” he asked after a few seconds.
    “Twelve. My mom gave me a choice, move down with her or stay with the boys. Meemaw was too old to take care of us by then. I wanted to stay. So Johnny became my guardian, because Watt had just gotten married, and here we are.”
    “So your big brothers essentially raised you?” That explained a lot of things about Randi. Her whole life history explained a lot of things.
    “Yep.” She slapped her palms down on the table and shoved her chair back. “So there you have it. My whole story, give or take a few things.”
    “I’ve never met anyone like you,” he told her, amazed at what she’d been through.
    “And you never will again,” she said. “I just realized you don’t have a car here, do you? That’s why you stayed all night. You could have called a cab or woken me up. I would have taken you home. It’s the least I could do.”
    Ty tried not to be offended. “I stayed because I wanted to. I know I could have called a cab. I’ve done it in the past.”
    “Reminding me you’re a player?” she said, setting her bowl in the sink and turning to face him, leaning against the counter. “I get it. You’ve been around.”
    “So have you,” he said calmly. “But that doesn’t really matter to either one of us, so let’s move on.” He caged her in with a hand on either side of her and leaned down until their noses touched. “You don’t have to work today. I don’t have to work today. What do you want to do?”
    She blinked a couple of times, staring into his eyes. He could tell the moment she made her decision. “So you’ve met my crazy brothers and heard about my sordid past and you’re not running for the hills yet?”
    Ty shook his head. “Nope.”
    “Well, then, what do
you
want to do?” she asked, playing with the neck of his T-shirt a little, avoiding his gaze. Her sudden shyness was as sexy as her outrageousness had been.
    “I have a pool.”
    “I have a bikini,” she said with a grin, looking up.
    “Sounds like a match made in heaven,” he told her, kissing her softly. “Can I put on your sunscreen?”
    “I burn
everywhere
,” she said against his lips.
    “Good,” he said, and then he kissed her properly.

Chapter 5
    Brian leaned against the bar that sat in the back corner of Ty’s yard, behind the pool. It was a big bar, a half-circle type, covered. There must have been ten coolers sitting around full of beer on ice. He wasn’t sure if Ty even knew he’d joined the impromptu pool party. There were at least fifty people there, splashing in the pool, drinking beer, and generally having a good time. A typical Ty Oakes party, just like back in college. Brian had really thought Ty had changed. Last night’s fiasco and now this party made him pretty sure he’d been dead wrong.
    “Penny for your thoughts,” Marian said, bumping him with her hip. Brian had been hanging out at her house, with her and Cass and Beau, talking strategy for the preseason when they’d noticed all the cars around Ty’s house. When Cass called Ty he’d told them to come on over, so they’d dragged Brian with them. He’d had no idea until then that Ty lived two doors down from his new friends.
    “My thoughts aren’t worth that much,” Brian told her, sipping his cold Corona. She waited expectantly, just staring at him. That stare was vicious. No wonder she was a good coach. “Just remembering the parties Ty used to throw in college. Does he do this often?” He gestured out at the pool area.
    “Never,” Cass said from his left, leaning back against the bar beside Brian. “I think he has a new girl. Most of these people are her friends. I don’t think Ty even knows them.”
    “They seem all right,” Beau said, sitting on a stool on the opposite side of the bar from them.
    “You’ll be singing a different tune when they sell pictures of us to the tabloids,” Marian said dryly.
    “Is that why I’m in