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Prospects had to be able to have a little fun sometimes

“Sounds good See you tonight at the lodge?” There was a big club bonfire that evening Viper’s ol’ lady was turning twenty-five for about the thirtieth time

“I’ll be there” And if the stars aligned, he’d be able to talk Toni into co with him

He left Bones in the prospects’ capable, though not tender, hands

With each rew Toni would still be out on her wraparound porch, wineglass in hand, enjoying the sunset It had become her ritual And while Zach had been too busy to pop over in the last week, he’d found some excuse to run to his house or past his house al

Just for a glimpse of her The woman who turned his head The wo the about them

Afterthe twenty- driveway The house he’d grown up in was set about a hundred feet back from the road Toni’s was even farther, another fifteen or so feet, so though they were next door neighbors, the houses weren’t side-by-side His bedroo room

Any excite died out when he realized she wasn’t in her usual spot She wasn’t outside at all Damn shaazing

“You’ve gotta be shitting me,” Zach muttered Toni h theAnd she had a visitor A suit-wearing, douche bag of a man asn’t worth a smile from Toni

Under her reserved exterior, Toni burned hot Zach could sense it For so that part of herself, to him at least, but that didn’t nored forever A man like the suit wouldn’t knohat the hell to do with a woman like Toni Wouldn’t kno to coax out the passion and fire she’d buried under a layer of seriousness

Zach did

Zach knew just how to tease a response out of Toni that would shatter her defenses and have her screa his name

And that’s exactly what he planned to do

She just had to agree to let him touch her

Chapter Ten