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CHAPTER ONE

“I’M TELLING YOU, that man has the hots for you”

At her co-worker’s words, the corners of nurse Carly Evans’ lips inched upward Still, she shrugged as if the coht the exciteive her heart free rein to jump up and doith joy

Ju worthy of a world-class medal

The sa routine her heart went into any tieon

Not that she had a right to feel that way Not when she couldn’t do one thing about her heart’s acrobatics or any hots Dr Stone Parker ht have for her

Stone

Just thinking his name, how his eyes, his mouth had immediately crinkled with a s’s rounds, had her blood pounding The erratic rhythirl dance with fists thrust into the air

Maybe her friend should be saying Carly had the hots for Stone

She did

For all the good it would do her

Which was the problem

She’d have been better off if she’d never met Stone, never felt the way he made every nerve cell inside her hum with life

That she wasn’t free hadn’t been a problem, until she’d met him No, she was torn and hated herself for it

Closing thethebreath, and grimaced

“Uh-huh, I saw that so don’t go pretending you’re ierness at Carly’s tell-tale , the sparks that fly back and forth You like him, too Admit it”

Wasn’t that the saht woe

Just over six feet tall, dark brown hair with the slightest hint of curl, green eyes that twinkled when he smiled, and a face that had inspired numerous fantasies… Yeah, Stone was ‘likable’

Just a tad

“He see man” Understatements of the year “I can appreciate that, just asyourself, can,” Carly pointed out, using all her willpower to keep her voice level, cool, and as unaffected as possible “But that does not mean I ‘like him’ like him”