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Chapter 1

Where was she, and where the hell were her clothes?

Flat on her back in a strange bed, Nikki Price stared up at the ceiling fanClick, click, click Blades cycled overhead in the di from the end

"Ohht?

She tried to look around but her eyeballs seeritty in their sockets, her head too heavy to lift off the fabric-softener-fresh pillow, sheets equally as soft against her bare skin All over bare Goose bumps prickled over her completely ned body

"Not right," she whispered to herself, her quiet voice bouncing around the quieter rooht"

Her bedroom fan pull sported a miniature soccer ball with tiny flowers painted on the white patches, a gift fro it if I'ht?"

No one answered Thank God

Still, nothing was familiar in the dih the blinds Voices swelled outside the walls Her stomach clenched

Okay, almost definitely a hotel

She inched her fingers under the covers across the ain Empty She searched her mind for clues before she would have to turn her head and confront whoever ht be in the room with her

Panic stilled her h her skull She hadn't drunk h the evening, getting ready to go to Beachcombers Bar and Grill for the live s off with Gary But she couldn't recallfor a second ael, but she'd never expected to wake up in a strange bed

Of course she hadn't expected to do a lot of the reckless things she'd done over the past seven months since Carson Hunt tromped her heart Truly tro a crush go south or getting dued her soul soabout him still made it difficult to breathe The ache of betrayal by her first real love o away

Although these days she was more mad than hurt

Could she have beenbeyond reckless? So totally stupid Apparently she had since here she was She'd thought she was ready to break up with the latest loser she'd been dating in hopes of filling that empty spot left by Carson Finally she would move on with her life