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night?”
    Alec’s gaze skipped from his to Jaya to the empty
table where Micha’s things should have been. “Everything cool, man?”
    “Yep, something came up that’s all.”
    Alec pulled Jaya in close and nuzzled her neck. “Yeah,
it’s cool. Jaya will take good care of me.”
    Caleb winced. “Oh, come on, man, you gotta do that
in front of me? You guys are worse than a couple of teenagers.”
    He made a round of quick goodbyes and left as
quickly as he could. He’d known Micha would go. She wasn’t going to sit at the
table and sulk. Micha Bennett was a handful, and he knew how to work her. Only
problem was, she was stubborn as hell and would come kicking and screaming the
whole way. She wanted to pretend tonight never happened? He’d simply have to
find a way to remind her every time she saw him.
    As he let himself into his apartment, he couldn’t
help the automatic peek into hers. Since moving into her building, across from
her, a couple of years ago, it had become part of his ritual. Walk in the door,
see if Micha was home.
    If she was serious about not dating him, he could
respect her wishes and leave her alone and literally die of blue balls, or he
could do what he did best, be persistently annoying. She had to talk to him
eventually, and when she did, they’d get on even ground. Problem was, he didn’t
want to be on even ground with her. He wanted her. But that would come later.
For now they had out figure out how to be friends.

Chapter
8
    Micha stared at Caleb’s apartment. She could make
out the outline of his body as he prowled around on the phone. For several
moments, she stood mesmerized. There was such an easy sex appeal to him. It
irritated her.
    Ryan hadn’t been too pleased about leaving early. He
loved the idea of rubbing elbows with billionaires, but he’d brought her home
without complaint, bless him.
    Caleb glanced toward her place, and she sighed. Now
that he’d touched her, it was the only thing she’d be able to think about every
time she saw him. The sound of his big hands tearing the delicate lace of her
thong was one she’d never forget. The way he’d looked deep into her soul after
that first kiss. The follow up kiss had been deliberate and sensual and so
intimate. She’d wanted to run then, but God she’d wanted to stay.
    She swiped a tear away with the back of her hand. Suck it up Micha, there’s no crying in relationships. And
if there was, she wasn’t the one crying. Except with Jax .
She immediately shoved the painful memory aside. She could do this. She and
Caleb could go back to the way things had been. How hard could that be? All she
had to do was forget the hottest night of her life.
    Deftly avoiding her kitchen table and the letter
from the adoption agency, Micha snatched up her car keys. She’d made the
mistake of re-reading the letter after she’d come home last night.
    Dear Miss Bennett,
    After research into your case,
we have contacted the necessary parties, and they do not, at this time, wish to
make contact. Should they reverse their decision, we shall contact you.
    Regards,
    William
Walker
Managing Partner, Walker and Associates
    In two succinct lines, William Walker had once
again killed her search for her birth mother. It didn’t matter. She’d get what
she wanted eventually. She was too stubborn not to.
    Jaya’s call came as she walked into her office. Her
friend didn’t bother with a greeting. “You want to tell me what’s going on
between you and Caleb?”
    Micha held the cell phone between her shoulder and
her ears as she prepped for the editors’ meeting. “Jai, sorry honey, can we do
this later? I’m prepping for a meeting.”
    “What time’s the meeting?”
    “Huh?”
    “The meeting—what time is it?”
    Micha stuttered, and Jaya caught her in her little
trap.
    “Are you going to tell me why you’re avoiding me
and Ricca? Ricca said she called this morning and you sent her to voicemail. What’s
going on?”
    Shit . She should