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Dedication

For Marina Adair and Joya Ryan

Thank you girls for helping me plot out this fabulous story of love, loss, and the powerful ic of second chances

You ROCK!

The save Troy Jacobs another one of those wicked I'rins froe suite Her attention should have excited him Should have knocked hiuided his feet her direction

But Lifehouse hung in the background singing “Froe that felt lanced at his watch and muttered a curse under his breath He needed to stay and schmooze at least another twenty minutes to make the director happy

So as the lead singer spoke of distance, wishes, loneliness, and regrets, Troy lowered his gaze to the whiskey in his crystal lowball, resisting the urge to glance out thefor the hundredth time since he'd walked into the suite A suite with a perfect view of Giselle's gorgeous face splashed across a billboard crowning the Vegas skyline He worked to repress the faer that ate at his soul

“Got somewhere to be?” Zahara Ellis, a member of Troy's stunt crew, strolled to his side with that loose, sexy sway of hers and set her glass of red wine on theledge The scrape she'd earned on the set earlier in the day looked raw against her creamy skin

“Anywhere but here,” he said “How's that cheek? As soon as you bit the dirt, I kneas going to leave a ”

She lifted her wineglass and pressed it against the scrape “Feels better with so cold on it”

Lifehouse's subdued tune transitioned into a fun, sexy riff from Nickelback's newest album, “No Fixed Address,” which helped Troy pull hishim down for almost a month

“Was worth it,” he told her

“Easy for you to say”

He grinned, thinking back to the clips they'd come here to watch after a sixteen-hour day “The dailies rocked”

“Thanks” She grinned, but then winced and let the sade, but she contracted with the group when they needed a quality all-around stuntwo I know you want to be the one doing the stunts, but you're teaching him a lot”

Troy's gaze skipped to Channing Tatu with the producer and director across the suite “He doesn't needHe's the kind of actor who could put me out of a job”