boulevard was staring through the windows of his shop at what Cooper was doing.
At the same time, he was feeling butterflies in his stomach.
“Fernando Arenas, will you be mine?” This time Nando couldn’t keep from chuckling.
“Seriously?” Nando asked. “I’m yours already, you fool. I was yours that morning you inspected my shop and tried so hard not to look at me.”
“I was that transparent?”
“Not really,” Nando admitted. “You were very persuasive the following weeks, though.”
“I know a good thing when I see it. We make a good pair.
We balance each other out.”
Nando nodded and kissed his Prince Charming. “That we do.”
ZAHRA OWENS was born in Europe just before Woodstock and the moon landing and was given a much less pronounceable name by her non-English-speaking parents.
Being an Aquarian meant she would never quite conform, and people learned to expect the unexpected.
She started writing fairy tales in first grade; the same year she came into contact with her first group of English-speaking friends, a group which would eventually grow to include people from all over the world. On the outside she was a typical only child, accustomed to being with adults most of the time. On the inside, she sought ways to channel her wild imagination.
During the daytime she earns a living as a computer specialist, but it’s her former career as an intensive care nurse that tends to seep into her fiction. Maybe this has to do with her weak spot for flawed characters and imperfect bodies, or maybe it’s just her sadistic streak coming through. You be the judge.
Visit her web site at http://www.zahraowens.com/ and blog at http://zahra-owens.livejournal.com/.
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