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with all the stories he’d surely have to share about Europe.
    He was a dynamic guy, which was why he had so many speaking engagements across the globe. She’d sent her resume to him a week shy of graduation, her degree in marketing a given. In fact, it had been a dare from Jacey that had prompted it. Jacey was always daring her to do stuff. But that time it had worked out.
    She’d thought it was a joke when she’d answered her phone and the voice on the other end had stated he was Grunwald Netherly calling for her. He wouldn’t make the call himself, right? But he had and within ten minutes she was calling him Grun as if they were old friends and agreeing to meet him in his hometown of Chicago for a personal interview.
    She’d booked a hotel but he’d snuffed that idea the first night, insisting she stayed with him. He owned a huge house just outside the city, a fully staffed house. And there was no better chaperone than his mother who lived with him. Dee loved her immediately.
    Grunwald, she found out, was a name that suited him. He was eccentric, flighty, temperamental and obnoxious as hell most of the time. He was also brilliant and believed in giving back. He did a lot of work behind the scenes for charities and donated money as if it was water. Which for him, it seemed to be. He came from money and made more of it.
    He’d published more books than she could count, taught online classes for several local schools when it interested him and spoke all over the world on how to be a published author, the importance of self-promotion, finding an agent and any number of other things that people wanted him to talk about. The man was just brilliant and everyone loved him. Including Dee.
    Jack was right. She was very lucky. She had a job she loved that earned her great money all from the convenience of her home. She traveled when she wanted to, or on rare occasions when she needed to. She’d learned more about marketing from Grun than she had her entire time in college. She grinned, thinking about how lucky she really was. She had no room to complain.
    She just had to put last night behind her. Hell, the last few months behind her when it came to her love life. Or, more accurately, her sex life. She would just focus ahead and leave the past in the past. Especially the more recent past.
    She sighed as she stepped into the shower. Who was she kidding? Mike, she could handle. One night with Jack and she knew that Mike was a mistake. She shouldn’t have slept with him. The sex had been good, but there hadn’t been a connection between them. He’d just realized it a lot sooner than she had. Jack on the other hand… Her nipples tightened, thinking about the feel of his mouth, his hands stroking over her flesh.
    She couldn’t think about Jack right now. Not now. She would focus on work and on enjoying this trip. It couldn’t have come at a better time. If she was lucky, Grun would have some new trip for her to set up. One that would require her to travel with him for a while. That was just what she needed.
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    Jack walked into Jonas’ kitchen to find his sister Jacey sitting at the table. Jonas was nowhere to be found. Curious. But he had other things on his mind. Other people, or more specifically one blonde bombshell he couldn’t track down at the moment.
    “Have you heard from Dee?” Jack asked his sister. “Or have any idea where she might be this afternoon?” He was tired and cranky and not being able to locate Dee wasn’t helping.
    It had taken everything he had to leave Dee alone when he’d walked out of the bathroom and found her sound asleep on her bed. He’d wanted to wake her, take her again. And honestly, that had scared the hell out of him. So he’d used the excuse of letting her rest to run. He regretted that choice more and more with each moment he couldn’t find her.
    “Ummm, about thirty thousand feet in the air or however high airplanes go,” Jacey said. “Have a good night, lover