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CHAPTER ONE

“You know, picturing soood for your health”

Kelsey LeBreck leaned forward to get a better view through the kitchen’s pass-through, saze away fros”

But of course her co-worker ignored that co you’ll have to wait before you can get hoine Mr Tall, Dark, and Loaded rocking your world You’re going to be so pent up and distracted, you’ll screw up everyone’s order”

“I do that anyway” Except his Never his Though, that wasn’t really an acco

“Yet you still get better tips than Chandra”

“I’ that way” And desperate When that tip as instead of riding the bus, she could channel so ru

“Are theto be here any ets if shit is late”

“Working on it” Kelsey blindly stirred her lasses, fold his newspaper just so, and then spread out a stack of docu that was soured out theso that he could fit the maximum amount of work into every minute of the day

And maybe he had God knows his schedule was more predictable than the sunrise At six fifteen every weekday , he would walk in the cafe with his newspaper tucked under his ar of coffee He’d sit at the same table in the far corner, the one that provided him both a view of the television on the wall and the least alare for his laptop screen She knew that only because she’d finally asked him one day why he chose that booth all the time When she’d joked that he sat there because it was her section, he’d just offered that eniget the last order she’d taken from the table before him

“You need to stop torturing yourself,” Nathan said fro soundtrack in the background “Froay either Believe e if he were”

She snorted and finally looked back at Nathan “Sausage? You’re going with that one, really?”

He held his arave her a come-on-how-could-I-pass-that-up look

“How do you even know this stuff? And you, with the fetish for skater boys, would go after Wyatt Austin, CEO-in-training? Please”

“I love the shit out of that strong, silent type They’re usually crazy good in the sack Like they’re saving up all that intensity just for you” He shrugged and turned over a row of bacon with his spatula “Anda kept man”