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“So you guys are big on fate here, huh?”

“Fate Magic” She shrugged with a grin

“It sounds toon drama”

“That probably means you need some in your life” She winked at me playfully

I decided to explore the boardwalk afterbreakfast with Bailey

Despite the dark clouds above, the weather outside wasup fron above the porch door of the building next to the inn proclaimed in feminine script Hart’s Gift Shop

The gift shop was currently closed I hoped it was on off-season hours and would be open so for Perry and there were beautiful dolls and jewelry in the s

After the gift shop were a candy store and arcade, and froe bandstand sat at the top of Main Street The street ide enough for cars to park in the s Trees lined the street, where restaurants, gift shops, clothes stores, fast-food joints, spas, coffeehouses, pubs, and roomed tourist environment

I decided to explore Main Street later and kept heading along the boards I passed a small ice crean proclai on the boardwalk—it seeiant of contelass There was no gaudy neon sign for this building Huge gold metal letters three stories up spelled out Paradise Sands Hotel and sold letters subtitled underneath it, And Conference Center

I stared up at thehow it could contrast so sharply with everything else on the boardwalk and yet soht benefited it rather than detracted from it I took a step back and turned toward the ocean There were only a few people walking along the beach today because of the co the sand what I assuold, the beach was lovely The sand was soft, rockless, and inviting I couldn’t wait for soe chair out there

But there was no sunshine and I could do with another coffee On that thought, I continued my journey down the boardwalk, when the heavens suddenly opened

My eyes darted for the closest available shelter and I dashed toward it—a closed bar that had an awning Soaked within seconds, blinded by rain, and irritated by the icky feeling ofThat hy I ran smack into a hard, masculine body

If the man’s arht onto my ass

I pushed y at the person I had so rudely collided with

Warean Sea that surrounded Santorini I’d vacationed there a few years back and the water there was the bluest I’d ever seen

Once I was able to dragcolor of those eyes, I took in the face they were set upon Rugged, masculine

My eyes drifted over his broad shoulders and uy ell over six feet tall The hands that were still on ered, and callused against my bare skin

Despite the cold, I felt my body flush with the heat of awareness and I stepped out of the stranger’s hold

“Sorry,” I said, slicking etically “That rain came out of nowhere”

Cooper

All Cooper could see at first were the stranger’s gorgeous eyes Big Brown—no Hazel They were broith flecks of light green and yellow in them Thick lashes framed them

Right now those gorgeous eyes held adown her cheeks didn’t detract from how pretty those eyes were

Warm eyes that moved from his face to travel over his body His shirt was soaked through and clung to hi workout and run along the beach He gave a brief nod as he pushed his wet hair back from his forehead

The stranger’s eyes widened a little and Cooper didn’t miss the feminine appreciation in them

She wasn’t short, standing at about five seven, but he was tall so she was tilting her head back to look up at hi

Cooper felt as alle on the back of his neck And it wasn’t the cold

He’d felt that tingle when he alking hoot hole the day histhe bar to her, only for his ht to hile the first day he stepped into the bar as the owner He’d felt the tingle the day histo the bar one day That tinglehis best friend

Standing in front of this bedraggled stranger with the prettiest goddale was a good thing or a bad thing in this case

Good or bad, it orth listening to, he thought as he opened the door to the bar He’d only stepped out for a few minutes to drop off mail that should have been delivered to Eet soaked to the skin o;So you guys are big on fate here, huh?”