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owner of the company.”
    “See you tomorrow, Graeme,” the young blonde girl behind the counter called.
    He’d been coming to the coffee house for a while and he had gotten to know her as well as a few of the other workers. He gave the girl a nod and a wave. At Marion’s inquisitive look, he flashed a smile. “I’m a regular.”
    He slid his hand across the small of her back, leading her through the coffee house and out the door into the late morning humidity. September was quickly approaching but the dog days of August were still in full force. The weather predictors promised another scorcher today and so far they were right on.
    “I thought we could walk down to the book store,” he said, grasping for an excuse—any excuse—to keep her by his side.
    “I’d like that. I’m always on the lookout for a new book to read.” She chucked her empty coffee cup into a trash can. “Graeme, I’m sorry about you and Charlotte.”
    Th at relationship was the last thing on his mind. When she walked, Graeme should have been angry and hurt, instead he had been relieved it was over. In fact, all that was on his mind was getting those clothes off Marion and doing all sorts of naughty things to her. He wanted her bad.
    He glanced at Marion and waved it away, as if it meant nothing. “Old news and it’s really for the best. The only thing we had in common was each other and she got bored with me. I guess that’s why she cheated on me.”
    “Oh.” She breathed out the word on a breath and it sounded deliciously sexy. “I’m sorry. I didn’t know.” She gave him an apologetic look but the last thing he wanted was her pity.
    “Don’t be. I’m not.”
    She dragged her bottom lip through her teeth. It was probably one of the sexiest things he’d seen her do. Though she was silent, he could tell she wanted to ask more questions. Perhaps find out more about the break up and if Charlotte hurt him as much as Ethan hurt her.
    Charl otte was all looks and no brains and despite all that, they had dated a while. He had taken her as his date to the wedding. Charlotte, though, wanted more than a few dates here and there. She wanted to take the next step, move their relationship to the “next level,” as she called it. But Graeme…he found it difficult to commit to that. He knew deep down she wasn’t the one.
    After refusing to let her move in with him, things had changed between them. Graeme couldn’t see living with someone after only knowing her for eight months—his record relationship length. He drifted away, and she drifted toward someone else. Several someones, in fact.
    But Graeme had no desire to tell Marion any of that. And despite the fact he wanted her so completely, he wasn’t exactly sure he had anything else to say to her. He had pined away for her for so long he didn’t know what to do with her now that she was by his side. Sweat rolled down his spine from both the heat and his nerves.
    Marion expelled a sudden breath. “So your business is good then?”
    A change of subject was always good. She’d already asked him about his business. Maybe she was as nervous as he. “It is. It’s a small web world and there is always a need for a good designer.”
    “I’m glad to see you doing so well. I know being in business for yourself was important to you.”
    Not only could he set his own hours, he thought, but the pay was obscene. He discovered quickly he could charge the owners of adult websites two hundred dollars an hour for his design services and they’d pay. And even though designing websites for the adult industry wasn’t his passion, it was his bread and butter and he made a lot of money doing it.
    Besides, he planned to get out of the business as soon as possible. And it wasn’t exactly something he was proud of or that he wanted Marion to know. Nor did she need to know he and Ethan started the company together. Or the things he had discovered about Ethan the night before their