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told her that enough times to make her believe it was the truth. Even now in death, Cade still held the power of fear over her.
                  “Reyna, you know you promised.” Jenna’s growing irritation cut through those unpleasant memories, bringing her back to the present and to Jenna’s frustration at not having heard a single word of what she’d just said.
                  “I realize you may still be in mourning, even if I can’t understand why, but you were lucky enough to find your Mr. Right. Some of us are still out there looking for that perfect man. The rest of the world didn’t stop living just because Cade chose to kill himself, you know. I mean, I have needs, even if you have stopped caring about your own. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a single man in Denver these days? Especially one who’s both wealthy and attractive. Brody has everything. He’s perfect for me.”
                  Why Jenna felt it necessary to have Reyna act as matchmaker with Brody in the first place she couldn’t understand. After all, Jenna had never had any problem asking a man out in the past.
                  Reyna couldn’t tell Jenna that the very thought of seeing her cousin with Brody was enough to make Reyna physically ill. Brody was starting to occupy way too much of Reyna’s thoughts lately, and if she had an ounce of sense left in her head, she would have refused his offer straight out instead of agreeing to it so easily.
                  “Tell me again why you need me to be involved in this little scheme of yours, Jenna. I mean you’ve never been shy about going after a man -before. Why don’t you just do it yourself?”
                  The sigh that greeted those words had Reyna searching for a chair. Obviously, this was going to be a long conversation if Jenna’s tone was any indication.
                  “Reyna, I told you—Brody’s not the kind of guy who likes a woman to go after him. From everything I’ve heard about him, I’d say just the opposite is true.”
                  As hard as she tried, Reyna couldn’t keep from laughing at the image of Jenna pouring over some folder containing all the little details of Brody’s personal life.
                  “Laugh if you like, but I know what works with men and what doesn’t, and I know what will work with Brody.”
                  That was certainly true enough. Jenna had gone through more rich, sophisticated, and eligible men in the past year than Reyna could keep track of. Which was why Reyna couldn’t understand out of all men Jenna had gone through, none had fit the bill as Jenna’s perfect guy?
                  “Because they were all missing that certain something Brody has.” Jenna went on to answer Reyna’s unspoken question a little too graphically. “You know that sexy, seductive attraction of his. Not to mention that smile…”
                  Reyna rejected Jenna’s words and the image her cousin had just created without considering it. She couldn’t think of Brody like that. Brody was her friend. That was all he could ever be, because she did not intend to go down that road again.
                  Just like everyone else who knew her, Jenna believed that Reyna had been hopelessly in love with Cade James. Although there were times, like now, when Jenna suspected something wasn’t quite right.
                  In the beginning, all of those things had been true. Or so Reyna believed. She’d just been too young and naïve to realize the truth.
                  There were times when Reyna wasn’t sure whether to laugh or scream at the utter irony of the way things had turned out.
                  Once she had believed in the fairy tale. When she and Cade met and married in just one week, she believed she was crazy in love with him.