Up Close and Personal

At that moment, someone rapped on the door to the connecting suites where they conducted their workshops. One of the students in back moved to admit the newcomer. The door frame filled with shoulders and one-hundred-percent he-man.

Rocco Easton.

Feminine squeals greeted his arrival as if he was some sort of rock star. Clearly he had created quite a following for himself with his fake persona of sexy waiter. Would these women still admire him if they knew his true identity or that he’d bluffed his way into their midst the night before?

She couldn’t imagine what he wanted anyway. Hadn’t he screwed up her life enough already? Or did he want to embarrass her after all and snatch the keys to her car in front of her whole class? Still, the sight of him in khakis and a navy polo shirt that showed off amazing muscles elicited a purely feminine flutter inside her.

“Rocco, darling.” Ingrid, the director’s wife, drew him deeper into the room. “We need you to settle a friendly disagreement we’ve been having this morning about the nature of attractiveness.”

“If this is about lipstick color or something, I’m not going to be much help.” He sauntered inside, his eyes meeting hers. Holding.

Jessica’s skin tickled with the memory of his touch, her heart picking up speed at just the sight of him. She might have doubts about his motives, but she didn’t doubt their sensual connection for a second. And she didn’t want any part of that sinfully sweet reaction.

He was a repo man, a guy who sneaked onto people’s property at night to make off with the cars that struggling families depended on. He was the guy who told lies to latchkey kids about why he needed to take away a refrigerator housing nothing more than milk and a few precious eggs.

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