Page 34 (1/2)

Chapter 1

Men are like shoes So and there's nothing you like And then, as luck would have it, the next week you find two that are perfect, but you don't have the money to buy both I was currently in just such a position… not with shoes, but with ot worse

A while ago, a guy named Diesel showed up in ic And then days later, poof, he was gone Noithout warning, he was once again standing in front of me

“Surprise,” he said “I'm back”

He was i at just over six feet Built solid with broad shoulders and deep-set, assessing brown eyes He looked like he could seriously kick ass and not break a sweat He had a lot of wavy, sandy blond hair cut short and fierce blond eyebrows I placed his age at late twenties, early thirties I knew very little about his background Clearly he'd been lucky with the gene pool He was a nice-looking guy, with perfect white teeth and a set all warm inside

It was a cold Februarya multicolored scarf wrapped around his neck, a black wool peacoat, a washed-out three-button thermal knit shirt, faded jeans, beat-up boots, and his usual bad attitude I knew that a muscular, athletic body was under the coat I wasn't sure if there was anything good buried under the attitude

My naht and have an average vocabulary for soth brown hair that is curly or wavy, depending on the huarian and Italian My family is dysfunctional in a nors I'd like to do with ht now I'm happy to put one foot in front of the other and buttonover the waistband

I work as a bond enforceent for my cousin Vin-nie, and my success at the job has more to do with luck and tenacity than with skill I live in a budget apartment on the outskirts of Trenton, and my only roommate is a ha this big guy suddenly appear in my kitchen

“I hate when you just show up in front ofmy doorbell like a normal person?”

“First off, I'm not exactly normal And second, you should be happy I didn't walk into your bathroom when you et and naked” He flashedyou wet and naked”

“In your dreams”

“Yeah,” Diesel said “It's happened”