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a little snow to stop him.
    Opening her locker, she withdrew a wrapped box. A little something for her friend’s belated honeymoon. Meghan wouldn’t be surprised at its contents.
    She closed her locker and prepared to leave when the thought of her cell phone crossed her mind. Shoot! She would have to run upstairs to surgery and retrieve it.
    “ Understand you might be looking for this?”
    Startled, Cameron turned right into a warm body. He made no movement to back up. Instead, he gave her that irksome smile of his, a smile she knew all too well.
    Tall and lean, there had been a time when she had melted in the arms of the devilishly good-looking surgeon. His sandy blonde hair was disheveled from pulling off his surgical cap. His piercing blue eyes stared into hers. Matthew  Halliday , her former fiancé.
    She grimaced and grabbed her cell phone from his hands. “What are you doing with it?”
    “ Paul said that a nurse in the unit loaned it to a patient. Figured it had to be you, especially when I looked at the screen.”
    “ I was just going to get it. Thank you very much,” she said curtly. She pushed by him, out the door. But any hope of leaving him behind diminished when she heard him walking behind her. She hoped no one noticed his sudden appearance. She slammed open the stairway door and quickly walked through the fire door to the stairwell.
    “ Cameron, wait. Just give me a second. Come on.” He reached for her arm.
    She jerked it back, temper flaring.
    “Can you not take a hint, Matthew? Leave me alone. It was bad enough that you took a job here. I already transferred away from you, once. What is your game? To try to totally destroy my life? Don’t forget it was you that ended it…besides the little fact that you’re married.”
    She went silent as Liada came down the stairs, but given the circumstances, Liada didn’t say a word and disappeared quickly down the flight of stairs to the next floor.
    “ Go home to your wife,” Cameron hissed. She tried to walk by him. He stepped in front of her.
    “ Please, Cameron. Can’t you see I’m trying to rectify my mistake? I don’t want to go home to Allison, Cameron. I’ve been trying to tell you. You won’t listen. It’s all been a huge mistake. All of this. A terrible, terrible mistake. I miss you. I want you back.”
    Cameron laughed. “You have just figured that out? It’s been three years, Matthew. Three years.”
    “ I have tried to tell you, Cameron. Someone tricked me three years ago. It was the pictures. It drove me crazy seeing you in those pictures.”
    She stared at him for a long moment. “What pictures, Matthew?” Cameron asked, confused. This was the first she had heard of this excuse. “Three years ago, you never gave me a reason. You just moved out. Moved out of the apartment we got to begin our life together. We were supposed to be married in less than four months and you just moved out without a word.”
    “ I was hurt, Cameron. Jealous as hell. Now, though, I know the pictures were fake. Someone superimposed your face on a naked girl’s body.”
    Cameron stood silent for a moment. She stared at him. Her eyes widened, her breathing quickened. “You have some explaining to do. Exactly what are you trying to tell me?”
    “ My mother…my mother received pictures in the mail, very lurid. It looked like you in an orgy. Naked people in sexual acts, Cameron. It wasn’t until six months ago that it came to light that the picture of you had been superimposed.”
    “ You believed I would have ever…you didn’t have the courage to confront me…,” Cameron stuttered. Anger choked her words. “You mean to tell me you broke up with me over fake pictures? After all this time, and you have the nerve…”
    He grabbed her by both arms. “Mother hired a private investigator. He was the one to confirm the pictures. He had this…this report. It wasn’t until another client sued him six months ago that it came out about my case.
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