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flung back the curtain on the dressing room.
    Lisa rushed over as Polly started tugging at the pale green fabric. She was right. It didn’t fit at all. Polly was tiny, her waist and hips completely out of proportion with her enhanced breasts. There was no ‘standard’ size dress that would fit her. Anything that she picked would need multiple fittings to ensure it was perfect.
    “Come over here.” She waved Polly over towards a free-standing mirror and pulled the dress from behind to make it hug her figure. “What do you think?”
    Polly shook her head, her hair splaying and catching Lisa in the face. She wrinkled her nose to try and stop herself sneezing. “I hate it,” said Polly. “I’m definitely not wearing this.”
    The color actually suited her perfectly. But she pointed towards a bright red dress on the rail. “I want to try that one.”
    Ruby had finally stopped hovering near the bottle of Prosecco and was fingering a pale one-shouldered yellow dress. “And I want to try this one.”
    Lisa painted a smile on her face. It was going to be a long, long day.

Chapter Three
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    T he music was pumping and Grey’s was already packed. Adam bought a beer at the bar and fought his way through the crowd to one of the tables near the back. Dawson gave him a nod and pulled out the chair next to him.
    “Where you been?” he asked.
    Adam shrugged. “I stopped in at the hospital before I came along.”
    Jake, one of the other guys, waved his hand. “Don’t tell us. There was a patient you had to see. A prescription you had to write. I wish you gave our poker game the priority you give your patients.” He dealt the cards swiftly.
    Adam wasn’t offended by the words. As the new guy around here he was the butt of most of their jokes. He took a sip of his beer. “You wouldn’t be saying that if you were the patient.”
    Jake rolled his eyes, “If I was the patient, I’d be looking for a doctor of the female variety. And one that was a whole lot prettier than you.”
    The rest of the guys laughed as Adam settled back into his chair. Making friends in Marietta had come easy. People welcomed you here. There were, of course, a few nosey questions but nothing he couldn’t bat away with a joke or two.
    Several of the guys had already asked if they could move into ‘bachelor palace’ as they’d nicknamed his house. But most of these guys were already loved up. People didn’t seem to stay single in Marietta for long. He wondered if something was in the water around here.
    Not that he hadn’t noticed the complement of lovely ladies in Marietta. He might even have been on the odd date. But there had been nothing serious.
    Marietta was new. Marietta was a fresh start. No one here knew about his wealth. For those not in the know, doctors were always considered well off. The truth was, most spent most of their life paying off their tuition. Adam had lucked out.
    After his face had appeared in the press in Washington he seemed to inherit a whole load of new best friends. A whole host of women who found him irresistible, and while that wasn’t exactly a crime, he would rather they found his personality irresistible rather than his bank balance.
    “Heard you were visiting my wife again today,” smiled Dawson.
    He nodded. “You might as well just sell me shares in the place and be done with it. I’m going to be a permanent fixture. And while it could easily be the beauty behind the counter that is the attraction,” he smiled as Dawson raised his eyebrows, “I can assure you it’s the cinnamon and chocolate hazelnut bars.”
    Dawson glanced at the cards in his hand and gestured towards the dealer. “Card. I also heard you met Luscious Lisa.”
    “Who?”
    Jake, Bruce and Mark all put their elbows on the table. A collective curious hmmmm went around the table.
    Adam shook his head and laughed. “You’re worse than a bunch of old women. Who is Luscious Lisa?”
    He knew exactly who they were referring to, but