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    Too late. Eric had arrived and neither Buck nor Sean got a chance to warn him. He and Jessica had argued the whole way over from her apartment. Just as soon as this night was over, so were they. But she had begged him to be civil, at least until she get her picture in the paper with him. Jessica loved making the social page. As soon as they walked through the door, Jessica headed for the ladies room for one last look at herself before she faced the crowd. Eric didn’t need to inspect his looks; he knew he had circles under his eyes and he needed a hair-cut. He also knew he had balked on the dress code. But he was dressed up, for Eric. A tuxedo was not his style, but he had on black denim dress pants, a black form fitting shirt, black boots and a black tie. His longish, curly blond hair stood out in stark contrast to his golden brown skin, dark green eyes and all of that tight black material stretched over his body like a second skin. Eric was comfortable.
    His eyes scanned the crowd, the ladies were acting funny. And they were all looking at him. It looked like it wouldn’t take much for some of them to actually drool. And even scarier, some of them were flushed, looking at him as if he were the last hot dog at the Fourth of July picnic. He enjoyed the attention of women, but this was ridiculous. Maybe they had gotten a copy of that silly calendar. Mr. July! Just as he was about to enter the main ballroom, Rex Hawthorne an old buddy of his; passed by with his wife Tammy.
    “Been modeling long, Eric?” Rex asked him with a shit-eating grin on his face. Tammy’s eyes raked him up and down and when Rex realized what his wife was doing, he quickly pulled her in the opposite direction.
    That damn calendar would be the death of him.
    Eric moved on, hating the fact his friends were talking about him and every woman in sight was giving him all kinds of intense and hungry looks. He knew he had said he wanted this kind of attention - but he wanted it from only one woman - not hundreds. Had somebody put that new women’s Viagra in the punchbowl? Rex needed to go home and satisfy his wife. Seeing Jessica returning to him, he cut Rex some slack. Who was he to talk?
    They entered the ornate main showroom, jam-packed with people holding martini’s and eating little nothing sandwiches that were probably made of cucumber slices and bean sprouts. Everyone seemed to be congregated at one end of the room - all looking at something that seemed to be the center of attention. “Eric, please - at least smile. Everyone is looking at us. I told you, I was sorry.” Eric ignored her.
    When the people realized it was Eric McAllister making his way to the center of the room, the crowd parted like the waters of the Red Sea at the raised hand of Moses. Strangely, Eric realized that they were all looking straight at him. He pulled his arm from Jessica’s grasp, looked to the left and to the right, trying to figure out what was going on. Was his fly unzipped? He refused to look down, but then he looked straight ahead. And what he saw made him nearly swallow his own tongue.
    What the crap!?
     
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    Arabella and Jade were watching the crowd. Austin was Jade’s hometown. He was having a great time—reconnecting, people watching, greeting friends and rivals alike. This was an event that even last year, he wouldn’t have been caught dead at. Bronze nudes would have made him run for the hills. But now, his new philosophy was, kick back and enjoy life. Loving Arabella had changed the way he looked at the world.
    “Can you believe how hot those bronzes are?” Arabella asked her husband. “And that my little cousin Evangeline actually sculpted them? If this guy is real, I want to see him” She told her husband everything, so Jade was as up to date on Evangeline’s dilemma as Arabella was.
    “Hey, I‘m the only guy you’re supposed to be lusting after!” Jade pretended to be affronted. He playfully covered his wife’s eyes. In