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“I thought ere finished with this, Dana,” he said “I told you before that I’m done You need to respect that”

“You’re not done We’re not done”

He saw the glint of anger she was trying to hide and that did it for hiin town that you didn’t like”

“About your doctor” She jumped on it immediately, as he’d known she would “Not exactly your type, Cooper,” she sneered

“You think you’re my type, Dana?”

“Yes, I am I am not threatened by this doctor, whoever she is” She huffed, crossing her arlared up at hi line of wo that moves since our divorce”

“Christ” He breathed out in disbelief “You have no class”

“Oh, and she does, does she?”

Dana wasn’t even in the saue as Jessica He’d known the doc only a feeeks, but he’d learned the hard way how to tell a good woood one “In spades And she’s not just some woman She’s my woman You stay out of our way, Dana,” he warned

Her lips parted in shock “You don’t mean that,” she whispered

“Every fucking word Now get the hell out of my bar”

And finally she left, but not without giving him the kicked-puppy look that used to work on him all too well

She ht have retreated, but Cooper kneas only so she could plan a new strategy

SEVENTEEN

Jessica

Bailey had giveninto the inn in the wrinkled dress I’d been wearing the day before She was too busy talking to a guest to giveto wait until she did

I’d just finished dressing when I heard the knock on the door, and I had to shakehad beco in ers across my skin, the brush of fabric as it touched my body, set offinside of me

Oh boy

I knew I must be flushed and by the look on Bailey’s face when I opened

“Tellinto the room

I closed the door for privacy and gave in to the fact that I really had no choice in the irlfriend to talk boys with I’d never had a boy to discuss I grinned, giddily

“Oh, hter at ot it so bad”

“You would, too,” I said defensively “If you’d just had the night I had”

Bailey’s exciteht, looking ”

“I went to see hiht when I woke up because I justI don’t knowI guess I needed to When I got therewell” I grinned, getting hot at the memory “We had sex on a table in his bar”

“No way!” She slapped“Which table? Because, as hot as that is, I would like to avoid it”

I shook“I’m sure he’s already taken care of it”

“Sex on a table in his bar That’s hot”

“Oh, you have no idea”

“That good, huh?”

“Best I’ve ever had”

“Holy shit Then what happened?”

I told her about going back to his place, where he made love to me Hoe fell asleep in each other’s arms, how safe but turned on I felt to wake up in his arain, and then fucked me in the shower

When I was done, Bailey was looking at uised envy “Holy shit”

I frowned, a little surprised by the depth of her envy “You and Toht?”

She hesitated a second before nodding too fast “Of course”

Hmm

I wasn’t convinced

And that surprised me because they seemed really in love

But reat sex

“What you and Cooper have, though, sounds like higher levels of hot,” she said, a little in awe “It sounds very special”

I smiled “I think it is I hope it is Anyway, I’ht want to show me the ropes”

“You want to start early?”

“If you don’t mind”

“Of course not” Bailey juet you started”

First we started off in her s systeh hotel sites, trip comparison sites, and her oebsite Then we moved on to reception, where she had another co system on it

“I’ you into the kitchen to go over the uests arriving this afternoon: Mr and Mrs Urquhart Greet them in a friendlythe coet their key”—she pointed to the locked cabinet with keys in it behind the reception desk and handed me the master key to the cabinet—“and then show theht ere finished with this, Dana,” he said “I told you before that I’m done You need to respect that”