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Prologue

~Charly~

“I’m such a pushover” I followht

“You’re a lot of things, Charly, but a pushover isn’t one of them” He smirks and rolls his shoulder, and then narrows his eyes at ht limit”

“I didn’t want to take two suitcases,” I reply with a shrug “So I crammed it into one”

“They’ll make you take stuff out”

I laugh and shakethe company jet”

Beau cocks a brow and leans his hips against the back of my couch “I’ll make you take stuff out, then”

“No, you won’t” I kiss his cheek, and pat it, harder than needed, laughing when he scowls “You love me”

“I’m excited to be rid of you for a couple of weeks,” he replies and rubs his cheek “You’re mean”

“I can’t believe Savannah talkedmy eyes “I don’t need a retreat full of a bunch of desperate women to tell me what my worth is”

“Van says the guy’s hot”

“I can look at hot guys at the gym I don’t need to fly all the way to the boonies for that”

“Then why are you going?” I stop pacing and propmy brother

“Because I’m a pushover”

His lips twitch

“Because I love Van”

“And you never do anything for yourself,” he adds

“My shop is for me,” I reply “My house My car All for me”

“But you don’t ever take a vacation, Charly I don’t knohy you even bought this house You never leave the shop”

“Hi, kettle, I’m pot” I shakemy plants and stuff for me”

“Take the teeks to relax And you never know, youabout yourself”

Beau liftsinto the trunk of my car and looks at me dubiously “Are you sure you don’t want me to drive you? I don’t know if you’ll be able to lift that thing back out”

“I’ain “Thanks for bringing my suitcase out, and for the chat”