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Chapter One

You’re allowed to scream, you’re allowed to cry,

but you’re never allowed to give up

—Mel’s Motivational Blog

If there was ever a time for cocktails, it was now On the flip side of that, Melanie Ra days were overat least for the next sevenshe’d had two thin blue lines staring her in the face

Still, she found herself in the wine aisle of Quicky Mart choosing a bottle for her best friends because they were certainly going to need it when she broke the news to them

What paired ith dropping a bonancy? Blush? Red?

Considering she’d had white the night of the greatest sexual experience of her life, which had landed her here, she chose the only white that was available from this dismal selection

“Mel”

Her fingers curled tighter around the neck of the bottle She knew that voice She’d replayed over and over how he’d whispered it in her ear as he’d had her pressed against the door in the foyer of his house For the past six weeks she’d done a reht stand What had she been thinking? She wasn’t a one-night stand type of girlthen again, if they all ith ht have to reconsider Holy smokes that man kne to pleasure a woman

But playtime was overand now they both would have to face the consequences

However, noas not the ti to be a daddy She was still grasping the life-changing fact herself

After their night together she hadn’t kno to handle a situation so foreign to her Unfortunately, avoiding hi better

Dodging Tanner had been quite a feat considering her best friend washis cousin, but Melanie had been busy and apparently so had Tanner, because he’d done little ht, too She’d heard of his widespread reputation as Haven’s ht-after bachelor