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Chapter One

Beth

10:30 AM

When you wake up and find a pair of pantyhose without a run on the very first try, you knoill be a good day, but I had no idea how good, and it certainly didn’t see down the hall fro the file in my hand, en route to the law library to find Bruce, the head researcher at our sal nonprofit As soon as I cleared the door, I felt an i up in shock, I saw s with aain

I had ed to run s brother’s closest friends and the reason I went through soheat travel up my neck and into my cheeks Why was I such an aard klutz around this one man, when I had always been known forthese conversations in my head these days?

“Oh God! I’h I took a step back, bitingwith the file in my hands

“You okay?” I heard Braden,on the other side of the room next to Adam Roth, also an attorney and a close friend of Braden’s He had a trace of a smirk on his face, but then, that was Adam’s natural expression

“Yeah, I wasn’t paying attention,” I said, backing up quickly Suddenly, I just wanted to get out of there before I embarrassedfor…”

“Watch out,” Mark warned, and suddenly, I felt another ied the doorway and slaal journals ca down, and I dropped my file and threw my ar over so us both over, while a lad I left before I embarrassed myself

I looked up at hih the chaos and confusion, I felt a powerful energy surge between us, almost like an electrical current For one brief ht on top ofof his breath on my cheek, and then Braden and Adam crossed the rooot up, and Braden took my hand and helped me to my feet

“Be careful or you’re going to kill somebody,” my brother warned after he made sure that I was okay Mark see disaster area

“She was just distracted,” Ada down to reasse in his eyes toldMark was to ht-knit office Everyone probably knew, including Mark I feltto sweat It probably sounds immature I mean, I enty-six, not sixteen, but since he had never demonstrated a romantic interest in me, and he was my co-worker and a friend of Braden’s, I tried to be as subtle as possible about my little infatuation So much for subtlety

“No, really guys don’t worry I’ his shirt cuffs

“You landed on top,” Adam reminded him

I knelt down too and began stacking journals in an effort to clean up the mess Braden pitched in, and I stood up and spun around,a new pile Unfortunately, Mark wasforward to help too, which meant that I fell to ht us crashing together again - this time face to crotch He juan retreating around the conference table, obviously getting as far away from me as possible