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A great little novella that took just a couple hours to read. Loved the characters and the story line.

A great little novella that took just a couple hours to read. Loved the characters and the story line.

They all love you, Derek. Just like I do. Even a blind man could see it.” Suddenly, he wrapped his arms around her. “What about a stupid man?” he asked, his voice husky yet hopeful. Tears fell down her cheeks. “Even a stupid man. Especially if he’s the most amazing, loving man I’ve ever met. Now take me to that bed you always talk so much about and love me.”

“I wasn’t sure that I approved of your relationship with Derek at first—it is unprofessional for a consultant to date his client, after all—but now I can see that you’re the best thing that’s happened to him in some time. I love him like a son and he’s about to make the biggest mistake of his life. I want you to stop him.”

He hoped Callie would let herself have a little fun. With him. He saw her shoulders relax a little and when she shot him her pixie grin, he made a new decision—to forget all about his earlier decision about not mixing business with pleasure. If ever there was a time for pleasure, it was now. And by god, he was going to take it.

“We’ve got to stop meeting in refrigerators like this.” Callie’s heart almost stopped beating. She would have recognized that smooth, deep voice anywhere. She froze. She couldn’t believe that Derek’s first image of her outside of the wedding refrigerator was like this—could she be any less sexy, she wondered dejectedly—in her own damn commercial refrigerator.

On his knees, sticky in a pool of milk, Derek could hardly think. Hell, he could hardly breathe. He couldn’t help but be amazed by what happened to him with Callie. He got within 5 feet of her and he lost his mind. He had to have her. Every perfect inch of her. He’d always had a thing for small, stacked blondes, but this one was putting every other woman he’d been with to shame.

Callie cursed her unfortunate weakness for tall, dark, and handsome. Her friends liked to joke that the big brutes she always fell for were the perfect counterpart to her petite curves. But it wasn’t really all that funny. The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.