Free Only One for Me by Candace Shaw

Plus, you’re only responsible for selecting tuxedos and
the groom’s cake. You really won’t have to see her again until the
wedding weekend.”
    “ Don’t forget I’m planning
the bachelor party.” He grinned with a wink.
    “ You should call Rasheed
to help you.”
    “ Already did, but he said
since he was married to Bria and had a baby on the way, those days
were gone. However, he gave me the information I needed and offered
his private jet to fly to Vegas.”
    “ Speaking of babies, I
gotta run before this one delivers itself.” She walked toward her
Mercedes. “I’ll call you when I have a chance.”
    Thirty minutes later, Cannon sat in
his car in the parking lot of the wedding planner’s office,
strumming his fingers on the steering wheel. A few cars were there,
all of which had Tennessee tags, except a black two door Lexus with
Georgia tags and a sorority plate which was the same sorority
Yasmine belonged to. He could picture her driving the car—too fast
as usual—with her hair blowing in the wind and her favorite music
blasting. She was always carefree and bubbly, which he’d admired
about her. She enjoyed life and had taught him to do the
same.
    He didn’t know much about her life now
except that she was an adjunct professor at Atlanta Memorial
University and also did educational consulting for the school
systems in Atlanta. Doug said she’d taken a sabbatical to move back
to Memphis temporarily to be with her mother.
    Inhaling, Cannon opened the glass door
to the wedding coordinator’s office. A receptionist greeted him and
instructed that he go to the waiting room, which was through the
door on his right.
    As he entered, he was greeted by soft
wedding music playing through speakers on the wall and a familiar
fragrance. He knew it instantly. It was Amarige, Yasmine’s favorite
perfume. Mixed with her ambrosia scent, it was always an
aphrodisiac for him. No one else was in the room except him and the
beauty with her head in “Modern Bride” and so engrossed in whatever
she was reading, she hadn’t noticed him.
    His heart almost leapt out of his
chest and onto the magazine-filled coffee table in front of her.
She was a vision of loveliness, and he had a moment of déjà vu.
When he’d met her fourteen years ago, she was reading a book to her
first graders, not realizing he stood in the back of her classroom
mesmerized by the sweetest voice he’d ever heard and her soft,
angelic face. When she was alerted to his presence, she’d treated
him to her simply amazing smile, and he knew he had to make her all
his.
    It wasn’t the first time he’d actually
met her. She’d been the geeky freshman daughter to his biology
teacher when he was a senior in high school. Cannon was always
cordial and spoke to Yasmine in the hallway. She wasn’t on his
radar, but it was something about her he’d found adorable and
intriguing. However, the day he arrived to read to her students for
a read-a-thon his fraternity sponsored, he definitely noticed the
young, sexy teacher.
    Cannon let his eyes wander over her
and soak in her essence as he’d done that day in her classroom. Her
hair was shorter than he remembered, but still with natural curls,
and pulled back with a black head band. As always, she wore little
make-up, and he noticed a few new laugh lines as she smirked over
what she read. His gaze landed on her pouty lips that he’d spent
endless hours kissing and nibbling as she sighed his name the
entire time. Over the years, he imagined her lips on his or roaming
over other parts of his body with her tongue licking and taunting
him as if he were the most delectable dessert she’d ever
had.
    Yasmine had been his everything. His
lover. His best friend. His rock. The one person he could depend on
to keep him focused. She believed in him and supported his goals to
the fullest. Throughout the years, he had replayed their last
conversation—well, argument—in his head, trying to figure out how
he could’ve