His broad shoulders lowered with a long expulsion of breath. He didn't want to think about women just then. Aside from making him aware of a different sort of frustration, since it had been a while since he'd had the pleasure of intimate female company, thinking about women reminded him that he was supposed to be looking for one.

He still couldn't believe the ultimatum his father had delivered two months ago. Two and a half, he mentally grumbled, reminding himself that the clock continued to tick.

His jaw worked in a slow grind as the numbers continued to climb. Justin had discovered he was a father not long after that meeting, but no one knew if he was making any progress with his little girl's mom. As far as J.T. knew, the guy still didn't want a wife. He knew for a fact he didn't want one himself.

He wanted nothing to do with the whole home-and-family thing. He knew firsthand that commitment on that level simply didn't work. He couldn't even remember his own mother, his father's second wife. She had bailed when J.T. was two, leaving him to a series of nannies, au pairs and the two succeeding stepmothers who'd pretty much ignored him before they'd abandoned him and their sons, too. They'd literally taken the money and run, which had pr