QUOTE : I think you’d better stay extra alert tonight.”<br /><br />“Okay.”<br /><br />“I’m serious, Jeff. Someone snuck up on both Hampton and Martin, and neither of them are shirkers.”<br /><br />He grins. “You’re worried for me, aren’t you?”<br /><br />“Course I am.”<br /><br />“Know what I think?”<br /><br />I scowl at him, which only widens his grin.<br /><br />He steps closer, puts a hand to my chin, and lifts it so I can’t avoid his gaze. “I think you’re in love with me,” he says.<br /><br />I stare at his lips. What comes out of my mouth is: “Jefferson McCauley Kingfisher, you have the swagger of a rooster and the swelled head of a melon.