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Darcy Stone had never been big on rules unless she was breaking theed you, in a big way So she’d taken a good, hard look at her life and decided that uidelines” wouldn’t hurt

Number one: Don’t stress the little stuff

Number two: Never let a certain man into your heart Ever

Number three: Don’t take crap from anyone

It was nuht now Today’s crap ca trainer who lived two counties over from Darcy’s town of Sunshine, Idaho, deep in the Bitterroot Mountains Johnny was coally i exotic animals

It killed Darcy to do business with hiht to the kill shelter

“I’ you intend to du his certs,” she said into her cell phone as she walked through the pouring rain and into work Hell, she didn’t have seven hundred dollars

Her wet sneakers squeaked as she entered Sunshine Wellness Center and rounded the front desk Cold had started to seep through her drenched clothes to her aching bones but she ignored this “Make it two hundred,” she told Johnny, “and you’ve got yourself a deal”

She didn’t have two hundred, either, nor a way to even get out to Johnny’s place since she no longer drove highways, but she’d worry about that later

Johnny started sputtering with outrage as she shoved her wet hair back fro still when her body suddenly went into hyper-alert mode

Daain? At this rate she could hire herself out as soent … except the only person whose appearance she could predict was AJ Colten

Guideline number two, and the bane of her existence

And sure enough, in walked her boss: six feet two inches of solid muscle, testosterone, and attitude And da for all of the above Very secret, since she’d gone there with hi-time

Never again, no matter how hot he was

Luckily she had one heck of a poker face, because on a good day just a fleeting glance from AJ reminded her that she was a twenty-six-year-old sex-starved woman

On a bad day, every single part of her sent urgent inized twenty-six-year-old sex-starved woman

It took everything she had not to look hungry

Or even overly friendly