“Your brother’s only dictum was to keep my love rays well and truly away from his little sister. All uttered in his most stern of tones.”

She did her best not to choke on her toast and eggs. “Doesn’t Rupert know me at all?” She tossed the words back at him with what she hoped was a matching carelessness.

“See? That’s what I told him. I said, ‘Audra’s too smart to fall for a guy like me.’”

Fall for? Absolutely not!

Sleep with... Maybe!

What on earth... She frowned and shook the thought away. She didn’t think of Finn in those terms.

Really?

She rolled her shoulders. So what if she’d always thought him too good-looking for his own good? That didn’t mean anything. In idle moments she might find herself thinking he’d be an exciting lover. If she were the kind of person who had flings with devil-may-care men. But she wasn’t. And that didn’t mean anything, either.