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Prologue
He wasn’t sure why he always chose this diner It was a risky thing to do If any of the waitresses slipped up andabout all of his dates here, it could ruin everything All he kneas that he liked this diner: it was low-key, coirls without feeling any pressure They were all beautiful woet what he wanted fro he needed If he was honest with hi to allooe hisin love Not for anyone, and certainly not for a brunette named Lucky who he barely knew He had to be focused on the plan at hand, and he couldn't allow for eet in the way of what he needed to do
Chapter 1
“Can you believe that this guy is in here again with another girl?” Shayla peered out into the dining rooirls stupid?”
“Maybe they don’t care?” I shrugged, indifferent to how ht to the restaurant every Friday night
“Or they don’t know” She rolled her eyes as she prepared two garden salads for her latest customer “But really, how can they not know? One look at hi to be faithful”
“Shayla,” I laughed as I sorted mountains of silverware and folded sets of thee a book by its cover”
“So you would go on a date with him if he asked you?”
“Oh, hell no” I laughed and looked out at the tall, handso at one of my tables His naer Joint every Friday night for the last three irl each tiirls he had previously brought into the diner But I was no longer surprised—not like Shayla was—every tiirl In fact, I would have been irl, teeks in a row
“You don’t think he’s hot?” Shayla turned tooff to deliver her salads
“Oh, he’s hot all right” I laughed again and stared at hiest player in Miauy He was too handsoht blue eyes and dark brown, slightly too long hair His hair was always perfectly spiked with a wisp in his face that he coive it a tousled look His face was chiseled and classically handso and superior look on it There was so about his persona that I was instinctively attracted to But I knew there was no way I would ever act on the attraction I felt—not that he would ever be interested in me anyway
“You should go for it, girl” Maria, the other waitress working that evening, wriggled her eyebrows atout her tips “He always sits at your table I bet he has a crush on you, chica”
“Thanks for the vote of confidence, Maria, but I doubt it” I laughed easily while a warh my body “Even if he was interested, which he isn’t, I would never date someone like him There is no way that he would fit my rules”
“Ay dios ain? Forget the rules Just go with the flow”
“You know I can’t do that, Maria” I sighed “I created the rules for a reason I don’t want to just be so myself for the real deal”
“If you say so” She stuffed her thick wad of cash into her handbag and jumped up “But I’e your ree in the way that Zane Beaumont e, warm, and manly I flushed as I reers touched when I took his payments
“Bye, Maria I’ll see you tomorrow?”
“No chica, rinned, and did a couple of steps in the kitchen
“Oh, that should be fun” I shtly envious I wish I could afford to take Saturday nights off Not that it actually mattered anyway I didn’t have a boyfriend, and my two best friends were coupled up So when I did have the night off, I was usually at hoe tub of Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food ice cream
“You should coirl Pedro’s cousin just moved here from New York, his name’s Armando I think you’d like him”
“That’s okay Thanks, Maria” I laughed and quicklyhall as a new couple was seated at ot into the booth on the sa to cozy up together asat the diner on Friday and Saturday nights because they were usually date nights But, they were also the best nights for tips Zane Beauirl could say no to that?
“Hi, I’ht Can I start you off with any drinks?” I kept the sh the couple paid no attention to ive you a few nore me and went to check up on Zane and his date
“Hi, is everything going okay?” I snore the excitement in my stomach as Zane stared up at me attentively with a sexy smile
“Is this Diet Coke?” The beautiful brunette asked me with an attitude “I asked for Diet Coke and this tastes like regular Coke”
“I can assure you that this is Diet Coke ma’am” I tried to make sure I didn’t roll my eyes “I personally filled your drink order, and I made sure to hit the Diet Coke button”
“Well, are you sure? Because it doesn’t taste like Diet Coke” She glared atelse you need, Mr Beaumont?”
“I told you to call ood here Thank you, Lucky”
“My pleasure” I s I would never ad Zane Beau that kept le for a year now—no dates, no kisses, and certainly no sex, and it was starting to wear on ive the time of day to; and certainly none who I found as attractive as Zane
Not only were my work friends shocked at my lack of dates, but so were Leeza and Shannon,Freshulars at pretty much every party on caone fro habits That is, until about a year ago, whenSenior as also the president of his fraternity, Sigma Chi, broke up withwords to est iht, Lucky? Everyone knows you’re the girl for a fun tiuys have you been with since you started UM? You’re like a hurricane with guys” And then he had laughed at his joke “Hurricane—get it?” He had asked, and I had nodded wordlessly The fact that he had jokingly co history to the school’s football team was not funny to irls that just went froht that I was that kind of girl, but I really wasn’t At least not in the way that he had thought It was true that I had dated about eight different guys during my three years at UM But, I had only slept with three of them Apparently, the five I didn’t sleep with didn’t pass that information on when they talked about me