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Her goal hadn’t changed,

Jenna reassured herself as she watched Stone move toward her. She still wanted to atone for the things she’d done. But if she told Stone the truth about who she was, he would turn from her, his eyes icy and distant.

But as Cindy Beatty, a complete stranger, she could do anything.

Stone held her gaze as he came close. Jenna couldn’t have looked away to save her life, not when so pinned by his burning intensity.

And she knew by the very power of what shimmered between them that it was the same for him—except he had no idea that this...thing between them was not new, that it had been there since the very beginning.

“Hello,” Stone said in that voice like dark honey. “It’s... Cindy, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” she murmured, sealing her fate with yet another lie. “It’s Cindy.”