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The gyhost town, too By late afternoon, angry clouds had rolled in - quenching the thirsty yards and deterring everyone into watching movies on the couch at the same time Dean wiped his wet shoes on a black mat and swiped his membership card

"Hey there, tall, dark, and handso the pretty redhead behind the front desk blush "Hi Stacey," he said, grabbing a folded towel froood"

"Thank you," she said, resting her elbows on the counter and giving hiht you were going to call etting out of the car and the thing froze up"

"Oh"

"Even the Geek Squad couldn&039;t retrieve my contacts"

Staceydown on a piece of scrap paper and handing it to hi anything Friday night?"

Her face brightened "I&039; her number in a pocket

A coy smile spread her lips "No excuses this ti out of the women&039;s locker-roo Robin&039;s forreat"

Robin paused at the front door and squeezed her eyes into slits "You never called"

"His phone broke," Stacey volunteered before Dean could get a word out

Robin pushed her lips into the side of her lass door and fading off into the parking lot

Dean turned back to Stacey and raised his brow

She shrugged "Her loss"

"We&039;ll talk soon," he said, crossing into thesit-ups on a big red ball His legs locked up like an engine without oil His pulse rate doubled Megan calanced at Dean in theIt wasn&039;t Megan He shook off the creeps and draped his towel over a red bench press, threw a plate on each end of the long barbell and cli&039;s rows of fluorescent lightsbehind his eyes He could still see Megan thrashing under hio

He lifted the bar from its rack and carefully lowered it to his chest The hardthrough his h his ain He pressed it back to the ceiling, focusing on a diht further froht with a controlled clang and sat back up, avoiding the barbell with his forehead like doing the liirl sat on a pectoral reen eyes

Dean looked away, a luled her fingers at hiirl acted like she hadn&039;t seen hiether in front of her chest He readied hi Out the corner of his eye, he watched her biceps flex as she squeezed out her reps Histhis second chance slip through his fingers

She released the weight and got up without htened her ponytail and hurried over to a shoulder led inside her spandex shorts drove his were tan and toned and when he realized he was starting to stiffen he lay back down on the bench and knocked out another quick set, rounding up an opening line After the tenth rep, he racked the weight and it hit hilanced over at her and scraest

His sneakers traipsed across the thin carpet, its colorful confetti pattern unfolding beneath hied around hier with each step he took No Refill girl released the ain Dean had to focus extra hard to keep fro over his own feet She pulled out one of her ear buds, her jaw dangling in the air

Dean jerked his chin to the shoulder press "I thought you said you were going to take it easy today"

Her brow cruasped "I probably got here before you did"

She folded her ar glances at her breasts "When did you get here?"

He checked his watch "Five o"

"Oh," he said flatly "Well, I&039; you Not that I wouldn&039;t want to follow you," he said, growing silent as her eyes thinned "Ito follow someone, you would make a perfect" He trailed off and sed dryly "Listen, can I get a quick spot?" He thumbed toward the bench press "There are only a handful of elderly people over there and I don&039;t trust e his adrenaline spike Her sainst freshly fallen snow "Sure," she said, getting off thehim to the bench press

His heart jack hah his veins too fast He felt dizzy and prayed he wasn&039;t co doith a summer cold They were the worst kind The silence between the for so witty to say, which had never been a proble sick Even his B game was pathetic today The s his horhts

He turned to her as they passed a lonely row of elliptical ?"

"Yeah, I o"

His eyebrows rose into the middle of his forehead "Where from?"

"Des Moines"

He nodded "Iowa, huh? You e bloomed inside of him as soon as the words slipped froh broke from her lips "My sister and her husband relocated here to open a dessert bar in don, so I came to help"

Dean stopped at the bench and pinched his eyes together "That is awesoars"

"Great na to quit while he was alood We have a long et a nice after dinner crowd"

"So do you make the drinks or bake the desserts?"