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be Rex’s brother?
    Knox can dance like no one else I’ve ever danced with, we were in sync with each other instantly. The way he moved with my hips was downright hot. His voice, when he spoke to me, was gruff and sexy. I’m sure he has all the girls eating out of the palm of his hand. I wanted to dance with him again that night but knew I wouldn’t and also because he never came over to our table. He was there all night and I felt him watching me. Rex said that he was busy and he did look busy with the club as packed as it was.
    “Hello, Earth to Jasmine!” Summer snaps her fingers in front of my face, bringing me back to reality.
    “What?” I put my Kindle on my nightstand and stretch my arms above my head.
    “Where’d you go?” Summer asks. “I was asking you a question and you didn’t even notice that I was talking at all.”
    I shrug, “Nowhere.”
    Summer rolls her eyes, “Rex said that Knox invited us over for dinner tonight. Do you want to go?”
    “Um, no, I’ve got a shit load of laundry to do.” I get up from my bed and walk towards a pile of dirty clothes on the floor. There are only about two loads which will take all of a few hours but Summer doesn’t need to know that. “Thank Knox for the offer though, will ya?”
    “If you don’t want to go just say it, don’t lie to me.” Summer deadpans. I should know better than to lie to her, she knows me better than I know myself.
    Sighing, I sit back down on my bed, “I’m sorry.” I pull my puppy dog face on her. This normally works when I’ve done something to piss her off, which rarely ever happens.
    Bingo!
    Summer starts laughing, “I guess Knox got your attention, huh?”
    Did he ever!
    I squeeze my pointer finger and thumb together, “Just a little bit.”
    “Jas, you should have seen you two on the dance floor, that shit was hot! I would have had an orgasm right then and there.” Summer says, fanning herself.
    Groaning, I throw myself back on my bed, “Eww Summer!” I roll over and face her. “No one ever affects me just like that Summer, not even Max.”
    With a shit-eating grin she says, “I think you met your match, babe.”
    I’m screwed, big time.
     
    Monday morning is always crazy at the coffee shop, everyone is hustling and bustling trying to get their coffee and get to work on time. I’m sitting in the back office after things have slowed down when Dianna comes walking in. She drops a note on my desk and walks out.
    My name is scribbled across the front of the envelope. Who the hell could this be from?
    I stick my index finger along the seal, breaking it open, and pull the note out.
     
    Jasmine,
    Sorry you couldn’t make it last night. Have dinner with me tonight at 6? I’ll meet you here at the coffee shop.
    Knox
     
    Yeah, I’m sure he’s sorry I couldn’t make it last night. Ha! How did he even know where I worked? It’s not like Summer would just give up information on me. And who does he think he is just stopping by my work and having an employee hand me a note from him? He couldn’t deliver it himself? Or even ask me to dinner in person? I place the card back in the envelope and throw it in the trashcan under the desk. I go back to working on the inventory I was doing before the interruption.
    A few hours pass when Summer comes walking in for her afternoon coffee fix. I grab her usual and sit with her at a table she chose in the back corner.
    “Thank you.” She says as I set the coffee down in front of her.
    “Of course, so you’ll never believe who sent me a note this morning.” I say.
    Raising her eyebrows and blowing on her coffee she guesses, “Knox?”
    I roll my eyes, “You had to tell him where I worked?” It irritates me that she would do that.
    Summer smirks, “I didn’t tell him.”
    “So how did he know then? Rex?”
    She shakes her head.
    What the hell?
    Her eyebrows shoot up in surprise, “He already knew. I figured you told him.”
    “What do you mean he already knew?”
    “We