Chapter 2: Thwarted DesireThe moment she walked in the bar, she felt fate smile upon her. There he was, across the room and sitting with a man she didn’t recognize. But dear lord, what had the universe been thinking? No man should look that good, especially not a man like that. She’d seen pictures of him plenty of times in the past several weeks, but those grainy images had done nothing to prepare her for what he looked like in the flesh. Tall, dark and handsome was the understatement of the century when it came to this guy.
Trying to keep her jaw from hitting the floor, she turned her gaze elsewhere and strolled to the bar in the middle of the establishment. She noticed a fair amount of attention had turned to her, nearly every pair of eyes in the building, in fact. Unfortunately, not th
