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schedule you.”
     
    “Photo shoot?  What are you talking about?” Cade asked as confused as ever.
     
    “The calendar for the hospital fundraiser.  I was selected to photograph everyone, but Susan is the one interviewing.”
     
    “Oh, the calendar, that’s right.  I completely forgot about that.  Yeah, I can call her…”
     
    “Okay, then I will see you at your scheduled time.  Goodnight, Cade.”
     
    “Tess, wait.  I was hoping that we could…”
     
    “Cade, it’s late. I’m tired, and you’ve been at a bar drinking and doing God only knows what else with God only knows who, so I have no intentions of talking to you right now.  By the way, let me just point this out right now so you’re not confused.  Nothing gets under my skin more than a guy calling me in the middle of the night from a bar.  It really is a big turn off when the last call is sounded at the bar, that I’m the last call.  Goodnight, Cade.” 
     
    And with the last word, she hung up.  Cade stood  on the sidewalk staring at his phone like it carried some kind of virus, feeling more than a little irritated at her.  He wasn’t drunk, he hadn’t done anything he shouldn’t have, other than the short encounter with the brunette, and he  returned  her call.  He wasn’t just randomly calling her on a whim of courage he got from a bottle.  The woman absolutely drove him mad.  He didn’t know if he was coming or going and this just sent him over the edge.  Rowan said to call her and, again, he got the short end of the stick.  At this rate, listening to his best friend would get his heart broken.  At least this time he didn’t have his jaw realigned. 
     
    Nothing went as he planned and his anger  with the situation made the thought  of taking a cab less appealing  to him.  Cade found himself heading back to the bar for Rowan.  His first thought to prove Tessa right.  If she wanted to accuse him of being drunk and doing God only knows what, he would do it.  He certainly didn’t want to make a liar out of her.  He had every intention of going right back in to the bar and participating in all those wicked vile things.  Once he stepped back in the building, however, he found that he couldn’t do it.  He didn’t want to get drunk. He didn’t want to be with someone else.  He wanted and needed Tessa in his arms.  He wanted to get drunk off her kisses and her taste, nothing else would quench the desires that found their way into his heart and body.  Pushing through his frustration, Cade turned around, found a cab and headed back to Rowan’s house to retrieve his car.
     
     
     

Chapter 6
     
     
     
    Eight o’ clock in the morning came entirely too early for Tessa.   Getting up this early was completely against everything she held sacred.  Today, however, was the first day of her scheduled photo shoots.  Thankfully, none of those doctors would be Cade.  Susan had scheduled all the doctors as planned and Cade’s shoot wasn’t until next week.  She wasn’t ready to see him yet, that was a small plus in the win column for her this week.  Tessa slowly dragged herself out of bed and got moving.  She took a quick shower and grabbed a cup of coffee and headed for the door.  Just as she reached for the knob, her cell phone started ringing.  She pulled it from her purse, glanced at it to see if it was worth the time to answer and came to an abrupt stop.   Cade’s number came up on the screen.  For a split second, her chest tightened and her heart stopped beating.  She had an internal argument with herself over whether she should answer or not.  God, she wanted to hear his voice, but then again didn’t.  Maybe she should apologize for being so rude to him the other night when he’d called her from the bar.  Then again, maybe not, that really was something that she hated.  She decided that the pros outweighed the cons on talking to him.  The ringing stopped just as she answered a second too