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head toward the right side
of the field. Taylor followed her gaze and froze.
    Cooper Hathaway stood on the sidelines and was in the
process of taking off his shirt.
    “Oh. My. God.” She grasped Emily’s hand. “What is he doing
here? Today, of all days.”
    “I’m so sorry, Tay. I completely forgot that Devlin invited
him.”
    She bit her lip, unable to look away from the smooth expanse
of muscled chest now exposed to her hungry gaze. “Shouldn’t he be somewhere
else with a supermodel or something? Like some exotic location? St. Barts? The
Hamptons at the very least?”
    Her eyes were glued to him as Cooper ran down the field and
caught the football with athletic grace that told her he must have played the
sport at one time. The man was simply mouthwateringly delicious. She couldn’t
look away. “This is so not good. Not good at all, Em.”
    “Okay, let’s not panic. Don’t forget your mission here.”
    “You don’t understand,” Taylor said in low, panicked tones.
“I can’t stop staring at him. He’s so…so…” She groaned. “Just looking at him
makes me warm all over.”’
    “Oh-kay. Clearly you have it bad.”
    Taylor turned to her. “Now do you see what I mean? It’s
imperative that I find something else—someone else—to occupy my thoughts and…”
She trailed off as the football dropped right next to her. She gulped as the
object of her thoughts and fantasies sauntered over and leaned down to pick up
the pigskin.
    “Hi,” Cooper murmured, looking directly at her.
    The smell of man assaulted her senses, rendering her
incapable of coherent speech. Taylor just stared back at him, dumbstruck.
Tongue-tied. Her gaze wandered over his face, to the grin pulling at his
sensuous lips and down to his broad, muscled chest and flat stomach. He looked
fit, healthy and, damn it, so sexy. Her blood thickened and turned to syrup.
Her pulse accelerated madly. “H-Hello.”
    Their gazes stayed connected for a moment, surely no more
than a minute, but long enough for Emily to finally speak up. “Hello, Cooper.”
    That broke the spell and he flashed a grin and murmured a
greeting to Emily before he straightened. With one last glance at Taylor, he
ran back toward the game.
    “See what I mean?” Taylor whispered. “He’s trouble.”
    “You’re right,” Emily agreed with a naughty grin. “He’s all
kinds of sexy.”
    “Em!”
    Emily laughed. “Oh Taylor. If any woman is brave enough to
take Cooper on, it’s you.”
    “No I’m not.”
    “I think anybody you’ll find to be your sex buddy will be a
poor substitute.”
    “I need to stop fantasizing about him.” She moaned softly.
“It’s been a year and I’m tired of it. This is a hopeless infatuation. Lust.
Plain and simple.”
    “So slake the lust with him.”
    Taylor swung her gaze to her best friend. “I can’t do that.
I already told you my reasons why. Besides, I’m hardly his type. You’ve seen
the women he goes out with, they’re all glamorous and gorgeous.”
    “I think you underestimate yourself,” Emily said dryly. “For
as long as I’ve known you, guys have been coming on to you. So why not turn the
tables this time and come on to him?”
    She bit her lip and shook her head.
    “Clearly he’s attracted to you. Why not him as a sex buddy?”
    The thought of Cooper as her friend with benefits was like
being zapped by lightning in her pussy. “Too complicated.”
    “Somebody once told me that I should have the guts to go
after what I want.”
    “I know I said that, but we were talking about you and
Devlin. Not me and Cooper.”
    “Same difference.”
    “Way different,” she disagreed. “He’s scary.”
    “And you think Devlin wasn’t scary to me? I had no
experience compared to him but at least I had the guts to go after what I want.
And look,” she held up her left hand, where a gorgeous ring sparkled on her
finger. “I’m getting married.”
    “You and Dev were meant to be.”
    “That’s why I think you