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Even as Pete spoke those words, he advanced on her, his eyes never leaving hers.

“I am,” Thomasina replied. “We don’t fit together, Pete. I’m a career woman. You’re an old-fashioned guy. It’d be a mistake for us to get too close.”

Close was exactly what they were now. He stood mere inches from her as he said, “It felt pretty good the other day when I held you.”

“Use your head, Pete. This’ll never work.”

He took her by the shoulders, closing the tiny gap between them. “It’s not my head I want to use. It’s my lips.” A millisecond later his mouth claimed hers and his arms wrapped around her.

Any protest she could muster disappeared like mist, and her heart raced. But how could that be? Pete Schofield was not The One.

Or was he?