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him.
    “Sorry, I forgot. But I must insist that you leave now. I’ll be by the shop later today for a look around.”
    “The shop?” Junior said, his voice high-pitched with apparent indignation. “What for?”
    Seth met his eyes, which were magnified to an unnatural size by his thick, black-rimmed glasses. “I have a warrant to search Savannah’s work area as well as her home.”
    Olive planted her hands on her ample hips and glared at Seth. “If you think I’m going to let you tear my shop apart on some wild-goose chase, you have another think coming. And if you get within ten feet of my bedroom, I’ll get the shotgun and fill your backside with buckshot!”
    “Unless Savannah has access to your upstairs apartment, I’ll only be searching the first floor.”
    Olive snorted with obvious disgust.
    “Are you going to leave her in jail while you do all this?” Junior asked.
    Seth shrugged, knowing that he could hold her for twenty-four hours before pressing charges or cutting her loose.
    Olive grabbed the basket from Junior and virtually slammed it into Seth’s stomach. “I made some breadand put in some of my strawberry preserves. You take this to Savannah in that awful jail so she can have some proper food or I won’t allow you to search my shop.”
    Seth nodded. “I’ll see that she gets it.”
    “You know you’re all wrong about her,” Junior said, subdued. “We watched them together until you made me leave.”
    “That’s true!” Olive piped in. “If you would have let Junior stay and keep an eye on them, none of this would have happened. I promised Savannah that Junior would keep her in his sight the entire night. You had no business sending him home at nine o’clock.”
    “That would have been difficult after Bill took her up to his suite.”
    Redness spread from Junior’s thick neck to his face. “ I would have gone up with them.”
    “Maybe Bill had other ideas,” Seth remarked as delicately as possible.
    Junior shook his head furiously. “Bill and I had a talk in his suite before Savannah arrived. I told him she wasn’t that kind of woman, so he shouldn’t even try.”
    “She did go to his room willingly,” Seth pointed out. “We have no way of knowing why they went to his room.” Seth’s gut knotted when he stated the obvious.
    Junior’s face was now a burning red. “I’m sure it was perfectly innocent. Bill gave me his word.”
    Seth didn’t want to argue the point. He wondered if Junior had any notion of the kind of ideas a man could get alone in a hotel room with Savannah. Probably not, since he was his mother’s eunuch. In fact, Seth couldn’t recall Junior having more than a dozen dates in recent history. None at all since Savannah had come to town.
    The light dawned sometime after Olive and Junior had marched haughtily out of the cabin. The normally meek Junior had displayed a lot of emotion. Seth guessed that Junior had a major crush on Savannah. Poor guy. It must have felt pretty masochistic when mommy had assigned him the chore of watching Savannah have dinner with one of his friends.
    Hell, Seth hadn’t exactly enjoyed watching the sensual way she had touched Bill’s hand. He could still hear the sound of her laughter, still see the way her dress complimented her figure. He wondered if she knew that candlelight made her eyes look even more exotic.
    He wondered why he was recalling personal details when he was supposed to be conducting a search. “Lack of sleep,” he grumbled as he moved into the bedroom.
    Her bed was at an angle and unmade. He could see the faint imprint of her head on the pillow. That required further investigation. He lifted the pillow from the bed and drank in the smell of her. A suddenvision of Savannah in his bed with her dark hair fanned out framing her face caused the expected physical reaction.
    “Geez, Junior has a crush and I’m teetering on the border of obsession. What is it about her?” he asked with a healthy dose of