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could just show up and all would be forgiven? That she would forget how much she missed him. That she wouldn’t remember how badly she needed him after Wally tried to force himself on her. “No,” she said in a stronger voice.
    Him here, in her B&B, staying across the short hall… No way! She moved closer, ready to get in his face and snarled to make her point. “N-o—”
    “That’s what I thought,” he said in a whisper laced with honey.
    In slow motion, she recognized what he would do. What she saw and what her mind perceived didn’t connect. His arms opened and wrapped around her. The “you’re crashing” vibe rushed forward in the form of a solid hard body and muscular arms. The embrace removed her anger, eradicated how upset she was with him, and eliminated the shock, just as it had done as a teen, just as he’d done when she was ten trapped in the room searching for her kitty. He soothed her. All the bad disappeared and vanished like a puff of smoke. At least her heart said so, and she allowed it a few moments of bliss, of forgiveness before she remembered her major organ didn’t rule anymore, her mind did.
    She had one mission in Heather Ridge, nothing more, to find and meet her soul mate. Okay, yeah, that sounded crazy and didn’t make sense, but the FIND ME candy myth she could believe in, even understand, but not this. Not her arms gripping Coop tighter, not her face burying into his neck smelling his scent that made her eyes roll back into her head.
    Hell’s bells, why did her body love pursuing him? Something ripped open inside her, like happiness, comfort, and fulfillment, though she couldn’t put a finger on exactly what. Whatever the feeling, it caused her to soak his shirt with her tears.
    If she’d let herself admit the truth, she would confess she missed his touch more than she’d ever missed anything.
    His body trembled. Having a quick hug was one thing, but crying over lost time she couldn’t handle. See, her heart didn’t rule. She eased away and wiped a hand under her nose.
    Damn him, he didn’t let go. He slid a finger across her cheek. “My God, I’ve missed you.”
    This close, she witnessed the compassion in his whiskey eyes reinforcing the tone of his sweet voice. If she’d seen them as a teen when he’d gently spoken, she would have melted, like she wanted to right now. Which she couldn’t do. “I’m mad at you.”
    He dropped his hand to his side, and she whimpered.
    “I-I…better go,” Felicia said and scurried down the steps.
    Felicia’s quick movements distracted and eased the pressing weight off her chest. “Felicia Karma,” she said, doing a double take in the direction his sister went. “Orange hair, eyebrows? Did she rebel as a teen and forget to stop?”
    He chuckled, deep, rich, like a man she craved to seduce until he groaned with want.
    “She changed her name because of me,” he said. “Her hair was her own doing.” He moved toward the balcony door, opened it, and propped a shoulder against the doorjamb.
    A gentle breeze blew his hair, his shirt, and chilled her overheated body.
    She swallowed at the gorgeous, confident man, with a physique of a honed athlete.
    Had he gone to Guy Candy School? Taken Sex God pills? What was up with him and this new air of “I’m hot, hear me roar”?
    “Where’d the nerd go?”
    He chuckled.
    Oh, hell. She hadn’t meant to speak out loud and shut her eyes, and so he couldn’t see, she put a hand over them.
    Earthy, minty aroma, the scent all Coop, wrapped its seducing wisps around her senses and tugged. He’d moved closer, but she wouldn’t look. Unable to see him, sent her awareness into hyper-alert. Desires came to life. Ones she kept locked away. Ones she didn’t want to have for Coop, not when her soul mate waited.
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    Coop’s feelings for Lyse magnified. Urges prodded him from every angle. Holding her had spurred his lust, but when she covered her eyes, a different sensation flowed over him. The