“No,” Faith said slowly. “And if I hadn’t seen him, ah, enjoying himself to a porn
movie the other night, I might have thought him gay.”
Hailey sat up so suddenly she nearly kicked her chair out from under her. “What?”
she shrieked.
The man across the way paused as if he’d heard them, and they froze when he looked
out his window.
Short black hair framed a masculine face full of sharp angles and jagged planes. His
chin was firm, his nose strong and straight, and his lips, God, his lips were full and pink
and prone to curl wickedly when he was amused. He wore a pair of jeans slung low on
his hips and no shirt. The light in his place showed his hardy eight-pack dusted with
black hair, and Hailey imagined that hair would feel as soft as down.
Damned if she wasn’t turned on just from looking at him. Of course, the memory of
his naked body was enough to set her scorching. They called him Mr. Tool because he
worked construction, but once they’d seen saidtool, they’d kept the name in deference to
his massive hammer.
She wanted to fan herself and eagerly watched him stretch and unsnap the top of his
jeans. “Uh, Faith? You said something about seeing Gage the other night?”
“Last night I was getting ready for bed when I happened to glance over at his place,”
Faith said primly. “Besides, Jeremy had gone home for the night and I was bored.”
Hailey bit her lip to refrain from commenting on how bored she’d be if she had to
endure Dr. Jeremy Pichter’s tight ass too. The identical expressions on Sydney’s and
Beth’s faces told her she wasn’t alone in that thought. The creep had made a play for her
moments after he’d met her, but Faith had shrugged away his lechery by focusing on his
money and his looks. Charm and decency, apparently, weren’t on her must-have list.
“What happened with Mr. Tool, I mean, ah, Gage?” Sydney asked.
“He turned on the TV, put in a tape, and then sat back on his couch to watch it.”
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“You couldn’t have seen much,” Hailey objected, bothered Faith might have
witnessed something from Gage that she hadn’t. Though it didn’t make sense, she
