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talk her into letting me be involved, after all she had let my best friend John into the committee, she surely wouldn’t deny her only son.
    “Really, well it’s a small world then isn’t it?” She says her eyes smiling, as she takes a drink from her iced coffee. Watching her mouth over the straw makes me instantly hard. I seriously was a bastard. My brother had ruined her; she wouldn’t want to have anything to do with me if she knew who I was, how my actions had set the ball in motion that day and she had ended up paying the consequences.
    “Yeah, it really is. So tell me about yourself Sabrina.” I try not to sound too interested.
    “What would you like to know?” she asks tilting her head, smiling brightly at me.
    “Anything you are willing to tell me.” I smile back just as her phone rings. She looks torn, as to whether she should answer it or ignore it, so I help her out.
    “Go ahead”, I say gesturing to her phone. She is cute as she raises her eyebrows looking apologetic.
    “I’m so sorry, it’ll just be one second.” She says as she stares at her phone.
    “Hey baby, what’s up?” she says into her phone and mouths “I’m sorry” to me, “Yeah, sweetheart, that’s fine. I’ll pick you up from practice then. Yeah it’s fine, I have to work on a couple of things for the wedding we have on Saturday, so don’t worry about it. Tell Emmi thanks and tell your sister and brother to be good. Okay, no. No pizza for dinner tonight. Why? Umm, because dinner’s already slow cooking in the crock pot.” She laughs. She’s talking to one of her sons. I love the peaceful expression she has.
    “Okay honey I better go. Love you Mark. Be safe.” She hangs up, taking a deep breath as she stares at her phone, and then looks up to me. Her eyes trying to mask some kind of apprehension, but as quickly as it had been there it disappears, her eyes becoming warm as they meet mine.
    “I’m so sorry about that Mr. Crown. If it had been anyone else, I would have been able to ignore it, but it was my oldest and I had been waiting to hear from him.”
    “You have kids?” I ask even though I know the answer as I look into her beautiful rich brown eyes. There is something about her eyes and the way that she looks at me that almost makes me breathless, and the fact that I notice is a big red warning flag that I need to tread carefully.
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    Sabrina
    “Three actually, I had been waiting to hear from him to see if he had a ride to baseball practice. I really am sorry. I don’t want you to think I am easily distracted from work.”
    The kids knew they could call me at anytime, but talk about horrible timing, I mean Michael Crown was a possible client, and now I felt like I had ruined any chances of somehow landing the two accounts. Plus, something in me was a little disappointed to know that I would have to see Michael Crown as a potential client, because when he had asked me to have a coffee with him I had felt a spark, an interest. Emmi and Nick had been pestering me about trying to date, they had even set me up a couple of times on blind dates, but that spark had always been lacking. But there was no way I would ever risk business with pleasure. That was what Michael Crown was made exactly for.
    “Three, wow. They must keep you and your husband pretty busy huh?” he asks and I shake my head without thinking.
    “Just me, it’s just me.” I say quickly, not knowing why I want to make sure he knew it was just me. But thinking about the way that I had said that made me feel icky and a little guilty. Almost as if Sean wasn’t around because he didn’t want to be.
    “Oh, I’m sorry about that,” he says sounding genuine, his pale blue eyes warm almost with concern.
    “Don’t be. It was just… umm one of those things.” I see the confusion in his eyes like he is about to ask something but before he can I say, “I know your company usually only exclusively works with SPARK for your events, any particular