7
“Oh,” Maggie finally got it. “Me? Palo, you can do better than that.”
He just shook his head like a cornered bull.
“I’m like the least girlie girl on the planet. I was such a tomboy that I made Coast Guard jocks feel like sissies. I only put on a dress and flirt in the bars to prove to myself that I’m not a complete lost cause as a woman.”
“You’re not a lost cause,” his voice was a low growl. The first emotion he’d revealed in the whole telling of his awful past and it was in the defense of her femininity. There was a laugh.
“Palo!” The frustration in her own voice earned her a smile. “No one in their right mind should be attracted to me.”
“Everyone in their right mind is attracted to you.”
“For all of the wrong reasons!” She didn’t like that they all wanted her body, not her. But
