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Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
2932 Ross Clark Circle, #384
Dothan, AL 36301
Settling The Score
ISBN: 1-59998-123-8
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Settling the Score
Elisa Adams
Elisa Adams
Chapter One
The way Jake saw it, he had two choices. He could either pretend he
didn’t recognize the woman he’d just about knocked over in his rush to
get to a date he didn’t even want, or run like hell in the other direction.
Out of the two choices, neither seemed particularly reasonable, but
running held a lot of appeal.
At that moment, as he looked into familiar green eyes and caught
more than a hint of humor, all the chatter in the restaurant faded to a
dull roar. The music, the laughter, the clang of plates and flatware all
disappeared, leaving him standing alone against the one woman he’d
hoped to never see again. The only woman who’d ever been able to get
under his skin and turn him inside out.
Why now? Why here, of all places? If he didn’t know any better, he’d
think his mother set the whole thing up, but even she wasn’t that
devious. He hoped.
“Hi, Jake.” Amber’s smooth, smoky voice rolled over him like a
caress. A caress he felt everywhere. In the thirteen years since he’d last
seen her, he hadn’t forgotten that voice. Back in high school, it had been
a voice that didn’t fit her body. It fit now. Too well. It took him a few
seconds to recover the power of speech.
“Hi.”
Bumbling idiot that he’d suddenly become, he couldn’t manage more
than a single, lame word in response to what remained unspoken
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between them. All he could do was stare at the woman she’d become and
wonder what had happened to the shy, overweight girl he’d known for
most of his life. The one who’d hidden behind thick, plastic-framed
glasses, bulky sweaters and science club meetings. Her voice was the
same. Her eyes too. But everything else had changed.
He’d known about her transformation—couldn’t have missed hearing
about it, given that his mother and hers were best friends and two of the
biggest busybodies in town—but some part of him had refused to believe
it until this moment, when he’d actually gotten a chance to see what
they’d been talking about. Now the woman who’d always tried her
hardest to fade into the background practically screamed “notice me”
without having to say a word. He’d noticed. Taken inventory of every inch
of her.
“How have you been?” she continued, humor glinting in those big
green eyes. She smelled like flowers and some sort of exotic spice. It hit
him like a punch in the gut and stirred parts of his body he tried to will
to remain dormant. The last thing he needed right now was a hard-on.
She’d slap him for sure.
“Jake?” Her husky laugh alerted him to the fact he had yet to answer
her question.
“I…uh…I’m good.” Good? Freakin’ stupid response, moron. Anything
else you’d like to do to make a fool of yourself? All those years at Harvard,
and he was reduced to an incoherent idiot when faced with a beautiful
woman.
No. Not just any beautiful woman. He’d dated his fair share of them,
and none had ever affected him the way Amber was tonight. There was
something about her that made his brain threaten to shut down. He
cleared his throat. “How have you been?”
“I’ve been great. It’s good to see you.”
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