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clear of them.
    “Your…dreams,” he said, “may be centered in San Diego but taking this job would help you reach your goals much more quickly. You could raise the capital you need.”
    She closed her eyes.
    “What are you doing?” he asked.
    She didn’t answer at first. For a second he thought he heard her counting beneath her breath. He did hear her counting. But when she got to six, she opened her eyes.
    “What am I doing? I’m trying not to say yes,” she said with a groan. “I need time. Because if I make the wrong decision we might both regret it. This whole situation…it’s completely crazy. I just came here for the weekend. I have friends I’m flying back with.”
    “I’ll refund the price of your airline ticket.”
    She raised her brows. “Somehow that won’t solve the problem.”
    “Problem?”
    “I have a reputation for jumping into fires that burn me. I promised myself I’d stop that. Agreeing to do this… I mean, just look at you.”
    Wyatt waited. She clearly had more to say.
    “I can hear their thoughts already. Some good-looking resort owner asks Alex to please help him and what does she do? She leaps right in. They’ll think I’ve lost my mind. I—no. I need to be smart.”
    Don’t push her , Wyatt told himself. Hadn’t everything she’d told him indicated that she had a tendency to let her emotions guide her? No matter what his gut instincts were saying, that wasn’t what he was looking for. He’d had a lifetime of bad experiences with people whose emotions dictated their actions, and up until he was old enough to be on his own he’d been forced to suffer the bitter consequences.
    Still, this was short-term work they were discussing.
    “A sensible person trying to save money would go for the gold, wouldn’t she?” Wyatt asked.
    Alex frowned. “Maybe she would. But I… This is a big step. I really should go. I’ll need to think this through.”
    Before he could say one word, she had moved to the door.
    “Alex?” he said, before the door had opened an inch.
    She turned to look at him.
    “Don’t think it through too much,” he said. “Stay here. I’ll make it worth your while.”
    A woman—someone other than Alex—gasped. Alex swung the door wide to reveal three women. Wyatt wanted to groan. He was very careful to keep his personal and business life separate. In fact, he’d opted not to have much of a personal life.
    Alex was blushing prettily, but she held her chin high. “Jayne, Serena, Molly—meet Wyatt McKendrick, my potential new boss. Wyatt, these are my best friends.”
    And obviously very protective of Alex, from the looks of them. He nodded to the three openly curious women. “It’s very nice to meet you. I’m hoping that Alex will make me a very happy innkeeper. I need her.”
    Wrong thing to say. Her friends’ expressions said that he was a wolf and Alex was a tasty lamb. They would try to convince her not to take the position.
    But he was determined to have her. It wasn’t just the way she’d handled Belinda’s situation and the customers. It was how she’d stood up to him . Not many people dared to question him. She was brave without being overbearing. It was a good quality for a concierge.
    Or a woman. He frowned at that out-of-place thought and, leaning down, whispered in Alex’s ear, upping the salary he had proposed earlier. “I really do need help,” he said.
    “What did he whisper to you?” one of her friends asked. Good. They were looking out for her. He liked his employees to have strong support systems. He’d grown up without one, so he didn’t require one, but most people did. It made for a happy, productive employee.
    Still, he was on a mission. “How much time do you need?”
    “I leave tomorrow afternoon.”
    “Then think it over tonight. I’ll meet you here tomorrow morning at eight. And…Alexandra?”
    The startled look in her eyes told him that very few people called her by her full name. Good.
    She