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Two hours to doeverything

Heather hurriedly pulled on her boots and debated texting everyone to beg for another hour, but that was so not the i for She wanted the other Belles to see that this was the official start of the new Heather: savvy, sophisticated, and totally capable of being pro into this apart people over to said aparte, was the next—and essential—step two And Heather was not going to screw it up

Heather was locking up when Josh’s door opened, and his annoying now-fa withholy hell, a lot of skin

It had been a little over a week since their seh she’d seen him plenty of ti civil There were still plenty of the quips and banter that had been a hallone was the easy teasing, and in its place, an odd tension that had her feeling regretful, although she wasn’t at all sure why

She lifted a hand to shield her eyes from the expanse of taut, muscled flesh on display “Can you please put that away?”

“Put what away? The crucials are covered”

“Barely,” she e of Josh Tanner wearing nothing but black boxers “Seriously, Josh You can’t just go opening the door naked”

“Noted,” he said, bending down to pick up his newspaper

“And that’s another thing,” she said, still shielding her eyes “A real newspaper? Really? You’ve heard of the Internet, right?”

“I’ers while sipping that first cup of coffee”

His mention of coffee reminded her that she hadn’t had any yet, and she withheld a whirue

“Hey, wait,” he said, his voice sharpening slightly as he ca”

Yesterday, she would have either ignored him or lied, but since she was about thirty seconds away fro out the wholearound, last night’s exhaustion, thisof everything that needed to happen within the next two hours