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stomach...she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt what Lena meant, she just couldn’t get her head to wrap around the thought that her best friend would set her up like this.
    “Dude, it was either this or listen to both of you whining about each other for the rest of my life...and remember when I told you pay back was a bitch?”
    “YOU NO GOOD DIRTY ROTTEN-”
    “Best sister-in-law you’ve ever had in your entire life,” Lena finished for her.
    “I am not letting him in here. There is no way I’m letting that man share this cabin with me!” Paige declared. And she’d meant it... even when she heard the subtle clearing of a throat behind her...
    Closing her eyes, she slowly brought the phone to her chest and turned.
    There standing in nothing but a terry cloth towel that wasn’t big enough to hide half of one thigh let alone all of him, was what Cupid wished he could look like.
    Olive skin glistening with drops of water, dark hair still streaming rivulets down past his evil little, panty-melting smile and muscles twitching in ways that suggested his entire body was being rhythmically jolted by invisible electrodes.
    “Good God have mercy...” Paige muttered, her mouth suddenly feeling like it was full of cotton.
    Obviously she’d been falsely educated about the cold causing shrinkage because if that bulge just below the loosely tucked cotton grew any more, there was going to be a serious case of indecent exposure going on.
    “Okay, that’s my cue to hang up now... We sent you some cookies from Sweet Temptations but it sounds like you’ll be eating something else for lover’s day,” Lena’s voice was full of smugness.
    “Shut. Up.”  Paige said to the air then realized she needed to lift the phone in order to speak to Lena.
    “Shut. Up.”  She demanded again, but this time to the ringing laughter of her best (make that former best) friend and then the damning sound of the dial tone.
     

     
    Felix stood leaning against the smooth pine of the door frame. He hadn’t actually heard Paige come into the cabin. He’d been too busy trying to tame his thirst for her in the shower. But he’d heard the moment she answered the phone and began shrieking her displeasure throughout the whole house. He didn’t think she’d be so upset about the thought of having the cabin all to herself for two weeks. He wrongly thought that after the busy year she’d had, she’d be looking forward to a little solitude.
    To be honest, he half expected Lena to pull out on their deal. He’d convinced himself he needed to ‘get a grip’ so to speak and prepare to spend two weeks entertaining his niece and that poop factory they kept telling him was his nephew while pining for the affection of one seriously hot doctor.
    He couldn’t help the smile that crept over his face as Lena was apparently filling Paige in on the fact that he’d been invited to share their vacation.
     

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    “No, no, no.” Paige shook her head as she backed far, far away from Felix. “Outta all the best friends I could’ve had as a kid, the one I chose just happened to be the devil?” She looked at the ceiling. “Shouldn’t you have intervened?”
    Felix’s lips curled as he stared at her. She looked so adorable stuffed in an over-sized parka, a Yukon hat pulled low on her head and her bright green eyes blinking at him. “I’ve been trying to tell you, my parents, Archer and anybody else who would listen that Lena was Satan from the day I met her but nobody would listen to poor old Felix. Now,” he waved a hand at himself. “These are the consequences.”
    Paige shook her head again. “No, these are the actions of a love child that could only be formed by Judas and Marcus Junius Brutus themselves,” She grabbed her bags and started for the front door. “And these are the steps of a woman getting the hell outta Dodge.”
    Felix didn’t vacate his spot as he leaned against the door frame and watched her as she quickly swung open