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Chapter One

“You don’t think I could make it work?” Tate Price asked his friend and business partner, Evan Daugherty

Evan shook his head, hisinto a faint smile “No For an hour or so, maybe But not for an entire weekend”

“Want to make a bet on that?”

Kiuys?”

The two nored her, even though she was the one who had unwittingly initiated this good-natured confrontation

“I’ll take that bet,” Evan said, his gaze locked with Tate’s s amber eyes “Say, a hundred bucks?”

Tate’s firm chin lifted in response to the provocation “You’re on”

“Seriously, guys We’re not doing this My ain”

Kiht as well not have spoken at all, for the reaction she received froular Wednesday lunch mates

“I tend to agree with Evan” Kier absently speared bamboo chopsticks into the noodles on her plate as she focused on the conversation “I’m not at all sure this scheme would work”

Before Tate could reply his sister, Lynette Price, another coworker of Kim’s, ju of practical jokes”

Emma tucked a strand of dark hair behind her ear and shook her head “Married people give off a certain—well, vibe Tate and Kim just don’t have it”

“Because they haven’t tried for us,” Lynette countered logically

Growing increasingly uncomfortable with this line of talk, and hardly able to even look at Tate now, Kim cleared her throat Maybe she should not have told her friends about the bizarre appeal her eccentric, five-ti an out-of-the-blue phone call last night It turned out that, unbeknownst to Ki for more than a year that Kihter Now her nuttythe baby—as well as so family reunion

Ki off Betsy Dyess Banks Cavenaugh O’Hara Vanlandingham Shaw’s antics, because she would drive herself as crazy as her mom if she took it all too seriously Huainst her ns to draw Kim back into the chaos from which she had escaped nine years earlier, as soon as she had turned eighteen and graduated high school Though Kim had assured her a with this latest wacky request, somehow the conversation had wound around to whether anyone—specifically Tate—could hoodwink Ki he’d been hteen months

She shot a quick look at Tate then Despite the incredible twist their conversation had taken, he lounged co as fit and undeniably hot as ever Seeing her looking at hiaze quickly to her plate, feeling her cheeks war to hide her attraction to Tate froht she’d done so successfully She’d tried just as hard to deny it to herself, but that had been a much more futile effort