It had been two weeks since Alejandro had come in. Laurie had long ago resigned herself to the belief that he wasn’t coming back. She’d never misread someone’s intentions so badly. He hadn’t felt the strong chemistry between them that she had. He was just like every other customer who came in just looking for a piece of a** to check out.

So, life went on and in the past two weeks, her vocabulary had picked up enough profanity and profane terms to fill a book. She’d also ...