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Erin Marsden had always been Serendipity’s good girl As assistant district attorney in the shter of the ex–police chief, youngest sibling of two overprotective brothers (both cops, one of as the current police chief), Erin always lived up to expectations She’d neverher fa out of the stereotypical role she’d always, always fulfilled

Until last night

She blinked and took stock of her surroundings: a strange bed, walls she didn’t recognize, and a warm, nude male body beside her very naked one

Cole Sanders

She stared at his too-long ht about the way her body ached in all the right places, and she shivered No doubt about it, when she finally stepped out of the hty but ht stand

A one-night stand

The thought htly nauseous as she silently traced the path that had led her here She’d started yesterday at her brother Mike’s wedding to one of Erin’s closest friends, Cara Hartley, now Marsden Erin had been surrounded by friends, fa her the odd woo home alone just yet, she’d stopped by Joe’s Bar Misstep number one

She’d let Cole Sanders, the e girl, interrupt her dance with an old friend Misstep number two

He’d pulled her close against his hard body She’d looked into his dark, almost navy eyes and seen a world-weariness that tore at her heart, then acknowledged the sexual tension they’d both ignored since his return Misstep number three

And then she’d gone for the gold, agreeing to join hiht session of marathon sex But she couldn’t label that misstep number four, because sex with Cole had been phenoenerate such heat It had been that fantastic In fact, Erin thought, she’d stretch and purr in content lightly beside her

Although their parents were good friends, Erin didn’t know Cole well Nobody did, not anymore Not even her brother Mike, who had been one of his closest pals, though Mike seem

ed concerned since Cole’s return Cole’s father had been her dad’s deputy chief of police until last year when Jed retired, but Jed Sanders never spoke of his son

According to Mike, Cole had dropped out of the police acaderaduation What Cole did after that was anybody’s guess, but ruotten involved in organized cri and prostitution rings Having grown up around Cole, even if she had kept her distance fro herself to believe he’d gone so wrong

Call her naive, but she’d always seen soood, even when he’d clashed with his tough-as-nails father Which didn’t mean she wouldn’t make her escape as cleanly as possible

What Erin didn’t know about aard -afters could fill a book The quiet, tepid affairs in her past always ended the same ith a polite It’s not you, it’s me before she walked away She’d never had to slip out of a man’s bed undetected before

She snuck one last glance at his broad shoulders, rising and falling with every breath he took His arm muscles, sculpted from hard work and marked by ink, caused her to shiver anew