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mornings at the shop, he was on kid duty again,
and she didn’t want to drive the bike to work in the winter—and set
off for town.
    “ Dad.” Kaylie only called him that
when she wanted to be taken seriously. “I think there’s a
problem.”
    “ What’s that, sweetie?” They drove
past the shop and doubled back, looking for a parking
spot.
    “ Mom’s shop isn’t big enough.” Her
little finger tapped firmly on the window facing the bakery. A
large hanging sign had just been installed the day before, a giant
red coffee mug with the word BUN underneath it. The full name of
the store was painted on one of the front windows. “Bakery &
Coffee Shop” was spelled out on the other. But you couldn’t see
that right now, because there was a large crowd on the
sidewalk.
    The rain had stopped sometime earlier,
although many people in the crowd had umbrellas, just in case. His
heart swelled. They were there for Carrie, no matter
what.
    He leaned over and ruffled Kaylie’s hair. She
glowered at him and he laughed. “Mommy’s shop is the perfect size.
She won’t have this many people every day.”
    “ Not with an attitude like that,
she won’t!” Kaylie crossed her arms over her chest and looked
fierce.
    “ You know what, kiddo?
You’re absolutely right.”
     
     
    THE END
     
     
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    An Excerpt from
    What Once Was
Perfect
     
    The Wardham
Series
    Book No. 1
     
    They sat like that for almost an hour.
At one point, Kyle was convinced that she had fallen asleep, but he
didn’t want to risk losing the moment, and he couldn’t see her face
without shifting. Her head was tucked under his chin, and he didn’t
mind, because her hair smelled amazing, an intoxicating blend of
honey and some kind of fruit. Thank god her ass was perched high on
his thigh and her legs were bent over his other arm, because in the
space beneath he had developed a brutal erection. He couldn’t
remember ever being this turned on by cuddling before, except maybe
in those first few weeks of dating when they were still working on
rounding all the bases.
    He remembered every single day of that
spring, the long string of her firsts: Laney slowly peeling off her
t-shirt in the barn, then crossing her arms against her chest; her
sliding across the bench in his truck, straddling him, grinding her
jean-clad pussy against his cock; getting completely naked in a
hotel room after the Science Society Formal Ball, wanting to punch
a hole in the wall after their only condom broke. Laney had made
that night worthwhile anyway, sliding his cock between their
bodies, holding herself open, rubbing against the length of him
until they both shattered apart. They’d spent the night twisted up
in each other, and when Laney wrapped her warm little hand around
him in the shower the next morning, he thought he’d died and gone
to heaven. He returned the pleasure before check out, and two weeks
later when he moved into his first apartment, they had an entire
box of condoms at the ready.
    She lifted her head and he was torn
between wanting her to see where he had wandered in his mind, and
hoping she’d return to her original position so he could keep
smelling her hair like a pervert. He didn’t dare think that she
might be wandering around the same spots on memory lane, even when
she pressed her forehead against his chin, then rubbed up his face
until her lips