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was magnified by his leather jacket that covered his broad shoulders, making them look even more dangerous than they had the other day.  She hadn’t thought that this man could be more enticing, but she’d been wrong.  Dead wrong! 
    Violet pulled her eyes away from his rough jaw that already was sporting a five o’clock shadow.  She suspected that the effect wasn’t from those razors that didn’t cut too close but was because the man was just naturally…raw. 
    Every sense in her body was leaping with excitement as the man’s spicy scent filled her nose, wreaked havoc with her sense of right and wrong.  Violet instinctively knew that the man was wrong, but he smelled so incredibly right. 
    Okay, so he didn’t look very “right” as he stood in her store, surrounded by delicate, handmade crafts.  He reminded her of a giant grizzly bear walking through a field of flowers.  The man was danger and raw sexuality while her store sported dream catchers, pretty hand carved items and artsy, hand-blown glass. 
    Three nights ago, she’d walked out of The Rotten Apple, determined to put him out of her mind.  He wasn’t the man for her.  The blond bombshell was the woman he wanted in his bed. 
    To further her campaign to forget this man, she’d told herself that he was wrong for her.  She needed a man who was refined and intellectual.  She’d tried hard to convince herself that she preferred the more refined gentlemen. 
    But when she was honest with herself, she knew that this man, with all of his rough edges and sexy charm, his biker-dude outfit and off-hand gallantry, were more enticing than the best chocolate.  He was danger when she should want safety.  He was power when she should be craving an equal partner for her life. 
    All of that was true, but she still couldn’t pull her eyes away from this man as he stared down at her, a silly, giddy feeling seeping into her mind. 
    And then she realized that he was holding the heavy box.  “Oh!  I’m sorry,” she gasped, and tried to take the box back.  “I shouldn’t….”
    “Where do you need this?” he asked, keeping it in his hands. 
    Violet bit her lip and looked around.  Where did she need it?  Box?  Um… “Storage area!” she finally exclaimed, relieved when her mind started to function again.  “Yes.  The storage area!”
    Violet smiled, excited that she’d remembered what was in the box and that it should go onto the shelves to be stored for the summer rush of tourists.  She actually sighed in relief after figuring that out then continued to stare up at him. 
    After a long pause, Creek lifted his eyebrows.  “And your storage area is where?” he prompted.
    Violet closed her eyes, feeling like a fool.  Again! 
    She spun around on her heel and, shaking her head, led the way behind the counter.  “It’s here,” she told him and pulled the door open, showing him the empty space on the storage shelf she’d cleared out earlier this morning, knowing that she’d need more space for the box. 
    Creek looked around, realized that there was an entire area back here with three workers industriously wrapping boxes in brown wrapping paper, slapping mailing labels on each, and bringing them to an area where the mail carrier would obviously pick them up for shipment.  “What’s all this?” he asked.
    Violet looked around with pride.  “This is where the online business works,” she told him.  “I set up a website two years ago to try and move merchandise during the winter months.”  She looked up at him.  “It was a slow winter, and I had nothing to do, a website seemed like a good idea.  The merchandise took off.  I was able to hire a marketing firm last year and that really helped boost sales.”
    “Where do you get all of your product?” he asked, his business mind kicking into overdrive.  There wasn’t a great deal of industry in the smaller towns of Alaska besides the oil, tourist and salmon industries, but