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CHAPTER SIX

YES, THAT’S RIGHT, PEOPLE. Your stately, dignified mayor of Haven Point had almost called Ben Kilpatrick an A-hole.

On the way to her office, McKenzie wanted to stop in the hallway and bang her head against the wall a few dozen times but she forced herself to keep walking.

The man brought out the absolute worst in her. Okay, he had been a jerk but she was supposed to at least try to be nice to him. She was trying to convince the man to bring a major tech facility to her community that would be a total game changer and yet she couldn’t refrain from calling him names, deserved or not.

For heaven’s sake, what was it about him that brought out the worst in her and turned her into a second-grader in pigtails, sticking her tongue out at the cutest boy in school?

Forty-eight hours earlier, she had lectured all her friends to do whatever was necessary to be nice to the man during the short time he would be in town. Why couldn’t she take a little of her own advice?

She unlocked her office and led the way inside. It wasn’t the most extravagant office in the world—on the small side, utilitarian, with a basic oak desk and matching credenza and a couple of visitor chairs that had probably been ugly and uncomfortable even back in the eighties, when they had obviously been purchased.

If she had to guess, she would imagine about ten of her offices would probably fit into his private office space at Caine Tech, but she still experienced a burst of pride when she saw her nameplate on the desk.

She might not have ever aspired to the job but she could still appreciate that Mayor McKenzie Shaw had a lovely ring to it.