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She looked back at him and grinned. “I think you’re crazy and foolish to buy this without knowing what I thought, but I love you for it and I love you.” She threw herself into his arms. “You’re an amazing man, Smutty.”

“There is one catch.”

A scowl formed between her brows as she leaned back. “What’s that?”

“I want you to start cooking again.”

“What do you mean?”

“I want you to do what makes you happy.”

“I can’t just turn around and say ‘I’m cooking. I’m a chef.’ I mean, I need to take some classes and stuff and that costs money and since we’re not all money hoarders like you with ginormous contracts, it’s not going to happen.”

He looked at her as if she’d just told him there were pixies flying around him. “Karen, please. Come on.”

“What?”

He rolled his eyes. “If you live here with me and we get married, my ginormous contract, as you call it, becomes your ginormous contract. I think we can get you in some of those classes.”

“Oh...” she said. She hadn’t thought of that. Karen grinned and threw her arms back around his neck. “Well, if you put it that way, okay!”

Jerry laughed and tugged her back so his mouth could find hers. When they finally pulled away, breathless and flushed, he cocked his head toward the house as he drew a key out of his pocket. “Should we go in and start our life together?”

She grabbed it out of his hand as she stood up. “Just friends with bennies, right?”

“Definitely, as long as those bennies include marriage and kids down the road.”

“I think we can come to some agreement on that, Smutty,” she said as he took her hand in his.

“Pookie,” he corrected her.

Karen laughed and grabbed a fistful of his shirt to pull him down for a kiss. “I love you, Pookie.”

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About the Author

After years of writing one mind-numbing technical document after another, Rhonda Shaw decided to combine her love of writing with her love of reading romance. At the end of a long day, Rhonda can’t wait to tap in to her creative side and lose herself in the telling of a great love story.

Born in California but transplanted to the Midwest, Rhonda is a warm-weather girl to the bone and loves nothing more than a balmy summer evening. Residing in Michigan, she and her husband are die-hard fans of all Detroit sports. Rhonda received a degree in human resources development before making a drastic career switch into computer technology where she began as a website developer before moving up into management. She was a lifelong dancer before her body told her she needed to come down off her toes and wrap it up. Rhonda loves all animals and wishes she could have almost any animal as a pet. She is a proud member of Romance Writers of America.

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ISBN-13: 9781426898204

THE ACE

Copyright © 2014 by Rhonda Shaw

Edited by Kerri Buckley

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