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The next few days passed in a blur for Denver as he and the Hudsons worked up an investment agreement for the Fawkes Group to be forty percent owners in the Atlantis Rising hotel. In between business meetings, Blair made her scheduled appearances, entertaining the married couple and slowly lulling Denver into a strange fantasy where he felt perhaps he was engaged to Blair.
Despite her apparent joy each day, he hadn’t been able to forget the look of hurt in her eyes, and he wanted to do something to erase it. He frequently found himself wandering down the beach paths toward her bungalow, hoping just to see her, speak to her. Every time, he paused just as he reached her door, and then the irresistible siren call of Blair and a bed had him raising his hand to knock.
She always opened the
