Winter Locke, still reeling from a broken engagement with her high school sweetheart, is dreading the holidays for the first time in years. An emotional setback seems likely given that she also has an upcoming class reunion in which seeing her ex-fiancé is highly probable. While lamenting her blues to her best friend, he tells her she should go and finally put the past behind her. Winter begins to have hope for love again and wonders if he’s the reason why.

Chad Turner, never big on commitment, is tired of witnessing Winter waste tears on a man he’d always hated. He's also a firm believer that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone new. Before she sees her ex again, Chad proposes to take Winter out on a date to remind her that there’s love after heartbreak. What she doesn’t know is his determination to prove that he’s the only one for her.

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“Can we not talk about your sexual prowess now? I just told you, you’re smelling all good, walking around half-naked. I’m about to forget we’re friends,” I joked. I probably should leave because lately, he seemed more like the man I met years ago that I crushed on than my best friend.
Chad’s voice deepened and his finger traced the nape of my neck. “I’m all up for forgetting we’re friends. I’ve always wanted to know how sex would be between us.”
“Alw…always?” My voice squeaked. His gentle touch stirred my loins again. I reached behind my neck and moved his hand.
“Always. I just never thought I would have the opportunity to act on it.”
“And you still don’t.” I reminded him.
“Why not? We’ve both have thought about it and we’re two single attractive consenting adults.”
“Who are best friends.”
He lowered his head to my ear and whispered, “I may be your best friend but right now I’m making you hot.”
I touched his chest to push him away and he trapped my hand against his well-defined pec.
“Do you feel that?” His heart raced beneath my hand. “It’s what I feel whenever I’m around you. I can feel your pulse through your wrist and it’s matching mine.”
“Chad, this is too much.”
“Is it? Don’t tell me you just dropped by because you wanted me to hang out with you. You know what it means when I don’t answer my phone and you still came over unannounced. Ever since you told me that you liked me back in college, I can’t stop thinking about how different everything could’ve been.”

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