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time, he would do everything differently. But he couldn’t change the past and he knew that. When he had gone to the reunion, he had been looking for Daphne. But he hadn’t been expecting her to turn and run away at the first sight of him.
    Today, it had been a blessing when she jogged up to his house. He knew her grandmother lived just down the street but he hadn't expected her to show up. In high school, he had enjoyed her company but he never took advantage of her crush on him. He had been stupid, and listened to all of his friends. He had never made fun of her but he never stopped them from doing so either.
    His favorite memory from high school was the night she had tutored him for a math test. They had been in the library at school, sitting side by side at one of the work stations. She was so excited when he finally got the problem right that she had leaned over and kissed him. He had been so shocked he hadn’t kissed her back and she had run away in horror before he could do so. He hated the ending, but he could still remember the plush feel of her lips and body against his. After that moment in the library he had never been able to forget her.
    Today he had wanted to try and ease her into a friendship. He had heard that she was going to be moving back to Ambrosia and she was just the kind of woman he was looking for. Well, at least from what he could remember. But she showed up looking awestruck by the house behind him and so damn sexy in jogging clothes that he had lost all train of thought. She definitely wasn’t the same girl any more but she was an even better woman.
    She had slimmed down a lot since high school but wasn’t necessarily skinny. She had a lot of curves and that was more attractive to him than anything. He knew she was what they called a 'plus size' model, just from seeing her in the magazines, but he didn't care about any of that. Her blonde hair had a few extra colors and it had an elegant look to it. There were shades of lighter blonde, a light brown and almost a copper color when the sun hit. It was long and sleek and framed her face. Her blue eyes were the same but had a jaded look in them.
    But it was her body that he couldn’t stop starring at. No matter what she remembered, he thought she was beautiful in high school. But now it was the way she carried herself that snagged his attention. She walked and held herself with confidence, which was sexy as hell.
    And he wouldn’t be a man if he hadn’t noticed that her breasts weren’t real anymore. They were luscious and full, not too ridiculously huge like some women but definitely more than a handful and more than they had been back then.
    She had been wearing a sports bra and a tank top and her breasts had barely been restrained. When she turned to jog away from him, he noticed her shorts were definitely short and he could see the rounded globes of the bottom of her ass cheeks. Damn he had it bad. Fifteen years later and she was still getting under his skin.
    He took a couple of deep breaths before he grabbed his belt and tool box and headed up to the house. He had a lot to get done today and if he wanted to do any work on his own house, he needed to get started.

 
     
     
     
    Chapter 3
     
    Daphne pulled into the parking lot of the vacant building and slowed to get a first glance of the place. It was an old brick building near the outskirts of town that had been vacant for a while. She didn’t know how well this venture was going to turnout, but she had bought the building last week. Today she was meeting her contractor for the first time.
    With the key in hand, she unlocked the front door and stepped inside. The air was stale, which was a pleasant way of saying it smelled rotten. The building had been built a long time ago and with the amount of time it had been vacant there was no telling what inhabited the building now. Daphne knew she wanted the whole place gutted and redone. This was the third store she was opening in the