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favor—but he put his hand up to cut off her rejection.
    “You saved me this morning.” She rolled her eyes. “Seriously, I haven’t been that hung-over in a long time. Your quirky remedy worked wonders, so I owe you.”
    She pressed her lips together, clearly not buying his bullshit, but when she cut her eyes to the brown bag, he knew he had her. “Okay, you win.” Her grin was quick as she ducked her head, seemingly embarrassed by her quick capitulation. “Where are we going?”
    “Didn’t they just open a Five Guys Burgers and Fries about a mile down the road?”
    Her face lit up and her brown eyes widened with excitement. “Yes. I’ve never been to one but always wanted to.”
    He was surprised by her excitement to try out the burger joint and terrified by the pleasure he took from making her happy.
    Food… food was good. It would clear out the residual effects of the alcohol causing him to act in such a weird, reckless, unpredictable way. He should also call Mercy, or one of his other friends-with-benefits, to see about a late-night hookup to work off some of his pent-up sexual heat, because this line of thinking where Callie was concerned was completely out of hand and unacceptable.

Chapter Three

    A s they made the short ride from The Bellamy to Five Guys, Callie forced herself to ignore how much space Wade took up in the seat, the way the interior of the work truck carried his unique scent, or the condensation forming on the windows. The patches of fog reminded her of the scalding hot car scene from Titanic, and the urge to recreate the scene, here and now, had her shifting uncomfortably in the seat.
    Lord, her head was a hot mess, and not just because the rain and humidity had turned her natural curls into a tangled rat’s nest. Her cranial scrambled eggs had nothing to do with the weather and everything to do with the perplexing man beside her. The morning started off as she expected, with Wade being surly and gruff. But as the day wore on, his hostility lessened and gradually slid down the scale to… something else.
    However, because of her limited experience with men and her inability to see situations clearly, she couldn’t figure out what the something else was. In direct proportion to his lessening wildebeest impression, she caught rare glimpses of his true nature, things she’d never been privileged to see before. Like the soul-deep kindness that radiated from his eyes when he was concerned about her hurting herself by trying to lift too much. Or the way his soft, sensual lips pulled higher on one side when he smiled, giving him the appearance of a mischievous little boy.
    An impression that was quickly dispelled when the eye wandered lower than his mouth. One look at his large, hard body proved there was absolutely nothing boyish about Wade Neumann.
    He also seemed to be noticing her in a way he never had before, and based on the scowl that usually followed one of his heated glances, he wasn’t pleased about the newfound interest.
    Callie had a reputation for being a prude, and she’d never been more dismayed about the validity of that reputation than now. If she were like Jen—whose moral compass had been zapped by the same unknown forces that caused planes and ships to disappear in the Bermuda Triangle—she’d know exactly what to do to capture and hold his attention.
    But she wasn’t like Jen, and she was clueless.
    She’d had a few casual boyfriends over the years, but never anything serious. They’d all been nothing more than slot-fillers for Gavin, her father’s protégé and the only man she’d ever loved. Or what she thought had been love. After realizing her parents’ marriage was nothing more than one of her father’s orchestrations and recognizing Gavin wasn’t actually the man she thought him to be, she doubted she knew anything about love.
    Or herself, for that matter.
    Her last kind-of-sort-of-not-really boyfriend, Jason, came into her life as her world crumbled. He