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waiting at home for him. He was
just a blip on the radar screen of life, and once he was gone, he’d
bet there wouldn’t be many people who would cry for him. He was a
selfish man, he realized. He’d been living his entire life caring
only about himself and his own pleasures, never looking back at the
hurt he caused others.
    The woman he'd accidentally elbowed earlier
in the week floated into his mind. The appalled look in her
beautiful eyes when he’d glanced at the blonde came back to him. Selfish . He should have stopped Dave from going toward the
back of the mountain. He should have considered that he might
double back and take Little Hellion instead. If he’d been less
self-absorbed, he might have pushed Dave to talk about the phone
call, and then he might have realized that Dave’s frustration would
hinder his judgment.
    The lights inside the modest two-story home
went out. Blake stepped off the porch in a stupor of sorrow and
guilt. His shoulders rounded forward as tears filled his eyes. He
opened his car door and sat in the driver’s seat, wanting
desperately not to be alone.
     
    Danica was on her third drink, feeling less
inhibited and enjoying the feeling of having her guard down. She
drank so rarely that she had an almost immediate reaction to
it.
    “Hey, there’s Jeffrey and Mike.” Kaylie
pointed at Camille’s fiancé. “Oh. My. God. Yummy, yummy.” Kaylie
stared beyond Jeffrey and Mike, to the entrance of the bar, where
two men filed in like rowdy football players. One of the men leaned
down to hug a woman as he passed. Behind him, the man from the
coffee shop came into clear view.
    Oh shit .
    “Dibs!” Kaylie squealed.
    “Oh no, you do not want him. Trust
me.” Danica downed her drink, while Kaylie nursed hers.
    “Are you kidding me? Want him? I need to taste him, feel him, own him—at least for a night or two.”
Kaylie’s eyes danced with mischief. “Look at that body. Where on
earth has he been hiding?” In a serious voice, she asked, “Do you
know him? Can you introduce me?”
    Danica’s throat tightened. Behind Jeffrey and
Mike, Blake was making a beeline for the bar, right where she and
Kaylie were standing. She couldn’t take her eyes off of him. This
was impossible. Too coincidental.
    “Danica, you look beautiful!” Jeffrey was the
mirror image of Bradley Cooper. He was athletic, smart, witty, and
very, very rich.
    Danica kissed his cheek. “What are you doing
here?”
    “I can’t let my fiancé go out alone on a
Saturday night, can I? I brought my guys to make sure the
bridesmaids weren’t misbehaving.” Behind him, his posse of
groomsmen were greeting Kaylie and the others. Danica told herself
that Adonis’s presence was just a coincidence; he wasn’t one of
Jeffrey’s groomsmen. They couldn’t know each other, could they?
Wouldn’t she have known that? She’d seen the list of the bridal
party and there was no Blake on it. Why, then, was he walking
toward her, his eyes locked on hers, his goddamned gorgeous body
coming closer by the second, rattling her nerves until her legs
were trembling. She yanked at the hem of her dress, wishing she’d
worn pants, something, anything to cover up her body a little more.
Now that she was among the bold and the beautiful, she didn’t feel
quite as in proportion as she had in front of her mirror.
    Kaylie elbowed her. “Here he comes!”
    He was there, standing right in front of her
in his black, button-down shirt and black slacks, his thick, wavy
hair perfectly coiffed like Patrick Dempsey’s. A smile spread
across his cheeks; his teeth were like little, polished pearls,
perfectly formed and as white as snow. He knows he’s hot. He’s
an egomaniac for sure . But something was different from when
she’d first seen him. His eyes had lost their roguish spark. He
looked…sad. Surely she was misreading him. What did she know about
him, anyway? This was probably his sullen pick-up look.
    “Hi.” Kaylie touched his forearm.