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check and paperwork all signed, Nick had no other choice than to stand up and end their meeting. As he extended his arm to help her out of the booth, Lyndsay took his proffered hand and gave him a wide smile that melted his heart. Thanking her again as he walked her to her car, Nick knew he was in trouble by hiring her. In the upcoming weeks they would be spending a fair amount of time together and if he found out she was in love with someone else or wasn’t attracted to him, it could quite simply break his heart. Regardless, it was a chance he was just going to have to take.
     
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Six
     
     
    D uring their lunch together, Nick had given Lyndsay his personal contact information. Now that they were going to be working together, he wanted her to be able to contact him directly if she needed to without having to go through Gracey. As he sat behind his desk after hours on a Friday night combing through some evidence on his current case, his cell phone chirped.
    Momentarily annoyed at the disruption, Nick picked up the phone anyway and was instantly pleased with the text message. It read, “Designs are all finalized. We’re ready to go furniture shopping. Are you free this weekend?”
    Nick hadn’t seen Lyndsay in close to two weeks because she had to finalize the designs on the whole house and his covered front porch. He had loved her idea to put some comfy chairs on the porch to enjoy sitting outside on a warm summer night. He was becoming more and more impressed by how talented she was and he was grateful he had gone to Deacon’s Nest that Saturday afternoon and met her. So many of the women he worked with in and around his profession were hard, aggressive, loud, and combative. Although that served them well working in the legal system, he wasn’t attracted to that personality type no matter how successful the woman was. That’s probably why he was so instantly attracted to Lyndsay. She was incredibly talented and successful at her job but she did it with a soft, easy going confidence and a smile. She was a great listener and so far she had made everything with the house easier for him.
    Texting her back with a smile still on his face, he said, “I’m all yours! I’ll meet you at the store tomorrow at 10 a.m.” Nick knew how excited she was to start picking out his furniture and he suddenly found himself looking forward to it, too. They were going to start picking out the pieces he liked at Deacon’s Nest. Whatever they couldn’t get there, they would find at a few other specialty shops. Once the furniture and fabric was decided, Lyndsay would then have the basic color palette to suggest appropriate carpets for the floors, paint color for the walls, and drapery fabrics. Turning off his phone for the evening, Nick headed home, looking forward to seeing Lyndsay again tomorrow.
     
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    If there was one thing Jodi knew, it was men. And there was no doubt in her mind that Mr. Hottie Pants was smitten with her friend. As she watched Nick and Lyndsay walking around the showroom floor picking out furniture pieces, she could tell by Nick’s behavior that he was a goner. She just couldn’t understand why Lyndsay didn’t get it! Jodi and Lyndsay had become fast friends the minute they met as co-workers at Deacon’s Nest even though they were completely different. Jodi loved to party, enjoyed male companionship, was outgoing, and a little on the wild side. Lyndsay, on the other hand, was the complete opposite. She was shy and reserved and it didn’t take long for Jodi to realize that her friend was completely naïve about sex and men. Because of Jodi’s sixth sense when it came to male sexuality, she had no doubt that Mr. Hottie Pants was very well versed and experienced in the sexual arena of life and her poor little Lyndsay cub was no match for this hungry lion. Jodi thought the two of them looked great together and she could easily see that they got along very well. If only