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Froht of a teenage girl pulling a lava lamp from the bed of a rusty, flatbed pickup truck Her thick black hair hung doell past her shoulders, obscuring his view of her face Black knee-high cos

Judging by the furniture and household iteirls who could curse a blue streak werein The one feraphic Most of the residents worked in town and kept reliable hours No loud ed to slip through the cracks

Unable to connect the second voice to its owner, he started to turn back into the apartment—

The black-haireda screa Derek to sainst theframe The ice pick in his skull twisted and he literally saw stars winking behind his eyelids

Before he could stop himself, Derek opened theand barked in his sternest lieutenant voice, “Hey! Not everyone needs to be in on yourday adventure!”

All chatter ceased frorunt, he slammed the , scooped up his hat and keys, and headed for the door His apartment was located on the second floor, down at the end of a long hallway, and as he locked his door, he noticed the apartment across the hall froiant porcelain statue of a blond woman with massive brsts

Dear God, please don’t tell me…

“Move to your other left, you crackhead!”

“O! Put it down My hand is falling off”

He turned to find the horn-wailing, black-haired ht of what appeared to be a dining roo half-perturbed, half-amused

Derek’s attention swung to the girl carrying the other end of the table, walking backward toward him He couldn’t see her face, but he was immediately riveted by the most beautiful ass he’d ever seen

Wearing jeans so low-cut they should be illegal, the girl had long, perfectly fors that were stuffed into brown leather cowboy boots, i him like a mechanical horse onto his brain

Please, please don’t let al, at least, so I can sleep tonight knowing I’ pervert

Derek very nearly had a coronary as she bent over to set down the table and purple lace peeked out over the waistband of her painted-on jeans His mouth went dry, his vision blurred, and both his hat and keys dropped to the floor

Surprised by the sudden noise, the girls ju to face hi her froer: Road Ends Ahead sign and was hurtling over the cliff

At least I’ll die happy

Her cloud of chestnut-colored hair flipped over her shoulder as she turned to face hiolden in color, landed on hih cheekbones Pouty lips pursed in displeasure A sprinkling of freckles dusted her nose, irl next door

An apparently dangerous combination if Derek’s reaction to her counted as any indication

Against his better judgaze to dip for exactly three seconds to her flat stoht white tank top she wore An inch of skin lay exposed above her waistband and in that brief moment, he wanted to drop to his knees and open-mouth kiss that spot below her belly button with an intensity that rattled him

She was sex incarnate andinto the apartment across the hall The situation felt suspicious, like soover cop, and if he could h to check, certainly he’d find a ca to let him in on the prank