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health if she couldn’t run.
    The phone chirped again. “Well hurry the hell up! I’m dying to meet her!”
    Kendall turned on his side to twiddle a lock of Maya’s long blonde hair between his fingers. “Grace is my cousin Jack’s wife. She lives here on the ranch with him, Ethan and Adam, her other husbands.” His eyes shone with amusement as her jaws flapped together a couple of times.
    “She what? Her what ?”
    “Jack is my cousin. He and our distant cousins, Ethan Grant and Adam Davis, own this ranch. Grace is their wife. She’s expecting.
    That’s why I told her not to run.”
    Expecting? Whoa. She was a wife to three men . Maya flopped back onto the pillow and thought about that for four seconds before she jumped up from the bed and ran to the bathroom.
    She peered back at Kendall and said, “I can be ready in five minutes.” She had to meet this woman.
    “Aren’t you hungry?”
    “Yeah. You better get cracking, hadn’t you?” She laughed as she ran the hot water.
    Kendall chuckled as he poked his head in the bathroom doorway.
    “You’re a bossy damned thing when you’re on a tear, aren’t you?”
    “Uh-huh!” she replied as she lathered her hands with her facial cleanser. “Scrambled eggs. Please. You can extract payment later.”
    “I live to serve,” Kendall quipped before exiting.

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    She laughed as she washed her face. Maya joined him at the kitchen table a few minutes later, face fixed, dressed, and ready to go.
    “Thank you for being willing to cook, Kendall. I would’ve been okay with a cereal bar.”
    Kendall wrinkled his nose. “Not your first breakfast under my roof. Not even your second breakfast or any other, for that matter. We don’t even buy those. We men need manlier, more substantial meals than that.”
    “Oh boy. I’m going to gain weight while I’m here,” she murmured as he piled steaming scrambled eggs onto her plate out of the skillet.
    “You could do with a few more pounds on you, Maya. You’ve lost too much weight this year.”
    Maya shrugged, remembering Kendall had a preference for curvy women. “Cooking for one is not as much fun.” Kendall gave her a look that spoke volumes and left her a little dazed. “So Grace is expecting, huh?”
    “Yup. The guys are over the moon. You should see what big saps they are around her.”
    That thought intrigued Maya, and she couldn’t wait to meet Grace. What would it be like to have the devotion of three men?
    Kendall murmured, “You’re awfully quiet. What are you thinking about, if you don’t mind me asking?”
    Maya felt her cheeks heat a little as she replied, “I was wondering what that kind of arrangement must be like. How do they keep things in balance? Is it hard for her to keep that many men happy? Do they have problems with jealousy? And why didn’t I know about this?”
    “Well, I can’t answer some of those questions, because I don’t pry with Grace. Jack tells me their main focus is making Grace happy, not the other way around. Grace is an open person, and I’ll bet she’d be happy to answer all of your questions. I can tell you this much, Grace always seems to…glow. I think they make her very happy. I never told you…well, there was other stuff for us to talk about.” Kendall cleared his throat like he had a frog in it.

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    “I was self-centered for a while. I’m sorry.”
    “Maya, don’t. Morgan died. I didn’t consider it self-centeredness.
    I’m just happy you’re here with me now. With us.”
    Taking the bull by the horns, she asked, “Is their relationship something you, Boone, and Richard would like me to ask her about?”
    Kendall looked her in the eye and responded without hesitation in his soothing, husky drawl, “Very much, babydoll.”

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Chapter Six
    Kendall helped Maya climb into the pickup truck, and she chuckled when he patted her ass before she planted it on the seat. He shrugged innocently when she gasped in mock surprise.
    “No man alive could resist