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one on her priority list. She’s probably more concerned about getting a manicure or a facial or something else inane.”
    Devon sighed as he stood from his desk and began to make preparations to go to the site. “Look, you’re not going to talk me to death about her all day again? It’s bad enough that it’s all the whole town is concerned about and on top of that, I have to look at that damn calendar.”
    With a big, charming grin Deshawn walked past his brother to stand in front of where the calendar hung on the wall above his own cluttered drafting table. Open to the current month, the calendar showed Chloe climbing up the steel staircase of an hourglass-shaped pool with clear turquoise tiles that perfectly match the hue of the metallic two-piece string bikini she wore. Her long auburn hair was wet and straight back off her smiling face.
    She was breathtakingly beautiful, and Deshawn couldn’t fathom any man in his right mind with a healthy libido not wanting the goddess as his nearest next-door neighbor. In his opinion, Devon was crazy for his paranoid suspicions of the woman’s intentions on moving to Holtsville, and he was a closet eunuch for not wanting any involvement with her, beyond building the house.
    “Well, even if she isn’t moving here permanently, which I can’t blame her for, this woman living down the road is a treat, no matter how infrequently.”
    Devon glanced briefly at the calendar over his shoulder as he strapped on his tool belt. “That’s your opinion.”
     
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    “Thanks for signing the autograph, Ms. Bolton. I’m sure the little girl will never forget this.”             
    Chloe returned the copy of her beauty book, Chloe’s Beauty Secrets , and the pen to the friendly flight attendant with a smile. “No problem. Tell them I appreciate the support even though I’m retired.”
    Her first-class flight from Montego Bay’s International Airport to Charleston, South Carolina, had gone smoothly but Chloe was anxious to be back on solid ground again. Excitement coursed through her as the pilot announced their imminent landing. She closed the novel she had been reading and looked out the window to the sweeping landscape beneath them.
    She felt in her heart she had made the right decision. She knew her mother would have approved, and that was very important Chloe. Anika had also blessed her adventure, and as Chloe thought of her friend, tears filled her eyes. Although they promised to visit and call often, Chloe was going to miss her. But she also knew that a friendship like theirs would weather the hundreds of miles of separation.
    The plane landed smoothly with no delays, and with the pilot’s approval she, along with the others in first-class, left the plane. She moved with long strides down the corridor connecting the plane to the airport terminal.  With a wince, she realized her name was being yelled out. It was the voice of a child, and that’s what stopped Chloe from pulling her cap farther down on her head and sprinting away.
    A little girl with long, slender braids, about six years old, removed her hand from an elderly woman, presumably her grandmother, and raced toward Chloe. The book she had signed earlier was under her arm.
    “Thanks for da audogiraffe.” She smiled, revealing missing teeth adorably.
    Chloe bit back a grin as the girl mispronounced the word autograph . “You’re welcome and thank you for buying it. It’s a pretty old book from last year.”
    “I know dat, but my mother lost da other one she had.”
    Chloe smiled. “Oh, I thought the book was for you,” she said playfully.
    The little girl laughed. “ I’m not old enough for makeup!”
    “You’re pretty enough without it anyway.”
    “Can I take a pidchoo to with you?”
    Chloe glanced around quickly, glad that the few people still left in the corridor strolled by them quickly, also anxious to finish their journeys. She had made every effort to be incognito, even wearing a cap