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his blue eyes twinkling.
    She pressed her body to his, rubbed against it some, and smiled when she heard him groan. “I think it’s really terrible of you to piss me off on my wedding night and then try smoothing it over with a few kisses,” she said, leaning closer to nibble him on the ear.
    He swept her off her feet and into his arms, quickly moving toward the bed. He gave her a look and said, “I’ll have the next three weeks to make up for it.”

4
    Courtney looked at herself in the full-length mirror. For her date with Harper, she had chosen to wear something sleek, stylish, and seductive. Her hair was pinned up, and the outfit she had purchased last month on a shopping trip with Sonya was just the thing to wear tonight. It was a revealing black mesh dress with definite sex appeal. It had a double-V neckline that bared her shoulders and a below-the-knee hem trimmed in ruffles. And the feminine strappy sandals on her feet added the final touch.
    She would be the first to admit she was nervous about tonight. This would be her first date in quite some time. For months she had been studying for an exam that would take her to the next level of her career. She was eyeing a regional sales director position—had been for the past year before finally taking the steps to achieve that goal.

    Being busy for the past months had kept her parents’ problems at the back of her mind. Other than studying, the only other thing she’d squeezed in time for was her responsibilities as a mentor to fourteen-year-old Jetrica Edwards.
    She frowned. Jetrica had not kept their appointment today. According to the principal, she had been absent from her classes, and a call to Jetrica’s house indicated she had left home that morning like she was headed to school. With anyone else, Courtney might consider possible foul play, but with Jetrica, she didn’t need to. Every once in a while, Jetrica enjoyed rattling her twenty-year-old sister. The sister had basically put her life on hold to raise Jetrica after their junkie of a mother was sent to prison for knocking over a drugstore with her boyfriend. Instead of showing Bethany gratitude, Jetrica went to great pains to give her sister grief.
    Courtney had been talked into becoming a mentor by Vickie, her friend from high school who had been one of Jetrica’s teachers last year. Vickie was one of the few who saw beyond the teen’s hell-raising antics. Courtney met with the girl every second and fourth Friday of the month at the middle school Jetrica attended. After six months, she still found the teen a challenge, mainly because the girl was determined to violate every social more that existed in the world. Sometimes Courtney figured Jetrica would deliberately test her patience to see how far she could take things before Courtney snapped. What Jetrica failed to realize or hadn’t quite yet discovered was that thanks to Barbara and Ron Andrews, it took a lot to make Courtney snap.

    But she wouldn’t let thoughts of Jetrica ruin her night. She grabbed her purse off the table on her way out the door—it was time for her adventure to begin.
    Ronald Andrews never liked repeating himself … especially when it came to women. And personally he didn’t understand the problem he was having with Ashira Wilson. He made no woman, other than his wife, promises, and even those he made to Barbara were challenging to keep. But he would keep them this time, since he truly believed that Barbara had meant what she said: If she even thought he was screwing around on her again, he was out. He had too much to lose if that were to happen. He relied too heavily on the money his wife was supplying him. Child-support payments for two different women were kicking his ass, and his personal tailor wasn’t cheap. He liked nice things, he liked looking nice and was used to buying the best, more than his salary as a college professor could afford.
    Luckily for