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to sleep at all that night. It may just have been the after-effects of the wine, but every time she lay down, she could hear her heart pounding in her ear. Her mind was racing with every detail of that evening, reliving it, not to groan at some embarrassment or misunderstanding, as so often happened, but to puzzle out its meaning. After two hours, she wondered whether it had really happened, and was not just some fantasy she had devised to hide from the grim reality she had been faced with just that day. However, the impressions were too real, too vivid and complete, to be her invention. It had really happened, however impossible the whole thing seemed.
    She finally got up around four AM; feeling light-headed but strangely alert, and made some coffee.
    She had collected some boxes earlier that evening to help with the packing, and with the prospect that had suddenly opened up before her, the task was no longer a burden. Her furniture would go into storage now that she would be able to afford it. The only things she was taking with her were her clothes and personal items. Erick told her he would send people to pick up her things and deliver them to the storage facility of her choice.
    He was also having a rental car delivered to her at his expense because he knew she would need one living so far outside of the city. She and Adam had moved into the city partly because they couldn’t actually afford a car of their own. In the city, they had plenty of access to public transportation when they needed it. Otherwise, they simply walked to most of the places they frequented.
    Hollianne couldn't believe her tremendous luck in landing this job. It was just what she needed right now and it would certainly get her back on her feet financially. And Erick was phenomenally wonderful!
    He wasn't hard on the eyes, either.
    She felt her bones melting, all the tension and excitement of last night easing, as she envisioned him once again, closing her eyes. His name fits, she thought as she involuntarily hugged the pile of clothes she was about to transfer to an open suitcase.
    Erick Angell really did fit her idea of an angel – not that she had ever imagined one specifically, but she suddenly knew that Erick was what an angel should be like.
    She suddenly felt a little guilty about her reaction to him.
    Adam had been her life and now here she was, looking at another man like he was a feast.
    But this had never happened to her.
    Not even with Adam. She was a bookish sort and it took a while before she had even noticed him. Adam hadn’t helped; he wasn’t the assertive sort and would probably never even have plucked up the courage to speak to her had she not made the first move, more out of impatience than desire. Their attraction had been gradual – thinking of themselves first as friends for weeks that turned into months, with meeting after meeting and one heartfelt conversation after another. But these conversations were never about what either of them felt, until late one evening as they were about to part. A sudden downpour had driven them to the shelter of a shop doorway. Adam had reached out to brush the rain drops from her hair without even thinking of anything more. Then, suddenly she was in his arms and her lips were pressed to his. But it had been another month before they slept together for the first time. He was so infuriatingly slow to take the hint. It had been magic while it lasted, but there was nothing quick about it, or about her other relationships for that matter, which as a consequence had been few in number. Since Adam she had not even looked at a man that way again.
    However, when she first set her eyes on Erick, she had been completely mesmerized. Blushing furiously even as she thought it, seeing Erick was like seeing a real man for the first time in her life.
    Hollianne shook her head to clear it, which turned out to be a mistake, as it only made her feel light-headed again, exacerbating the sense of dreamlike