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wanted to date other men. Showing up here was a little like how she remembered him after the breakup. He always seemed to just happen to be where she was. She used to think it was just her imagination. But there was always something there that she’d wondered about. A bit of an obsessive-compulsive type.
    Then he disappeared and she got married, and that was the last she’d seen of him until he stopped by her house this morning.
    Carly and Dillon danced late into the night, until Carly didn’t think she could dance any longer. She’d wondered if Geoff would try to cut in, but she never saw his face in the crowd the rest of the night.
    “Ready to go home?” Dillon put his arm around her shoulders. “You wore me out.”
    “Me? Wear you out?” Carly laughed. “I think it was the other way around.”
    They headed back to the truck, their arms brushing as they walked past parked cars to where they’d left his vehicle. In the background the band continued to play and the sounds of laughter continued.
    Tingles ran up and down her spine and she looked over her shoulder. No one was there. Still, she had the strangest sensation they were being watched.

Chapter 7
    Anger burned inside Geoff, red-hot flames that rose to lick his skin. Where had the cowboy come from?
    After watching Carly for the past week, biding his time, Geoff had known she had no one but a few friends around town and no man in her life. So who was this fucking cowboy, this Dillon Cameron?
    He clenched and unclenched his hands as he watched them walk through the parking lot and ground his teeth. He eased along behind them in the darkness, moving from parked vehicle to parked vehicle.
    Carly glanced over her shoulder, as if she sensed him. He paused but was pleased. Good, something inside her was aware of him. Something inside her wanted him, needed him. She just didn’t realize it yet.
    Tonight, though, she would pay for tonight. She had brushed him off when he’d gone to interrupt that almost-kiss.
    He couldn’t believe she’d almost kissed Cameron. What were they going to do now? Was she going to go off and fuck him?
    No. Geoff mentally shook his head. He bet his return had started to pull at her and soon she would have no interest in another man. They were destined to be together. Cameron would soon be history.
    Maybe he’d waited too long to contact her. But he’d felt the need to learn her routine, to get to know her again. When he knew her ten years ago, she had been a journalism student. Now she wrote books for a living. She’d always been outgoing, so it surprised him that she would live in a remote area where she had little contact with the outside world.
    Carly and Cameron reached a truck and Geoff spit on the ground with disgust at the way the cowboy pretended to be a gentleman and help her into the truck. Geoff knew the truth. Cameron just wanted to get into her pants.
    Geoff watched as the cowboy climbed into the truck and started it, and the engine roared. Dirt and gravel spit from beneath the truck’s tires as the truck drove away from the other parked vehicles.
    He made a mental note of the license plate. It could come in handy if he was forced to take things a step farther. If Carly developed a real interest in Cameron, more than just a date to a barn dance, Geoff was going to have to take matters into his own hands.
    He watched as the red taillights faded and then the truck turned onto a road. When he couldn’t see them anymore, he walked back to his SUV.
    His skin cooled as he talked himself down. Carly wouldn’t stay with the cowboy. Fate had already decreed that she belonged to Geoff Burnside. Why else would he have discovered where she lived and that she was now divorced? Why else would his asshole boss allow him to work remotely?
    No, this was no chance. This time she would be his.

Chapter 8
    It was one in the morning by the time they reached Carly’s house. Dillon helped her out of his truck and grabbed the bag she’d