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her thoughts immediately flew to Marcus. “Thanks.”
    Staci went to her room and
fired up her computer. The bank occupied just a small area on the
ground floor of a low building which housed a number of shops and
small businesses. Her office had been partitioned off from the main
banking lobby with see-through glass walls. Clients who needed
financial advice could walk into her office to have a private chat
with her.
    Melanie came up to Staci as
she was getting a cup of coffee from the machine.
    “Hey, did you have a
good time last night?” Melanie beamed.
    “Oh, hi Mel! I...yes,
yes I did,” Staci said quickly.
    “Good. I had a great
time! Those witches were a hoot! We all had supper at the
Broomstick Inn after that. I thought of giving you a call to ask if
you wanted to join us, but...” Melanie nudged her playfully.
“I figured you were busy.”
    “You saw me.”
Staci winced.
    “Of course I did! You
were getting it on with one sexy bear. You go, girl!”
    Staci was saved from
answering when Pamela, their bank manager came out of her office and
strode purposefully towards Staci with a stack of documents.
    “Staci, can I speak to
you for a minute?”
    “Sure,” Staci
said immediately, putting down her coffee cup. Melanie greeted
Pamela cheerily and sauntered back to her work station.
    “I have to see a client
urgently at one o'clock this afternoon, and I forgot all about my
meeting with Marcus Beck,” Pamela began, looking a little
flustered. “Marcus requested that I meet him at his work site
so I could see for myself the work they do and structure the best
loan for his business. Marcus is a very busy man and I don't want to
re-schedule the meeting.”
    “I'll go see Mr Beck
this afternoon,” Staci said immediately, taking the documents
from Pamela.
    “Great! Beck's
Builders is the company. Marcus is the big boss.”
    “M-Marcus?”
    Pamela nodded. “Marcus
Beck owns Beck's Builders. They remodel homes and offices, but I
think Marcus is thinking of expanding into the building and
construction business as well. I'll let you talk to him and get the
details from him directly.”
    Staci swallowed and managed a
confident smile. “I'll do that.”
    Marcus was a common name, she
told herself. Marcus Beck from Beck's Builders couldn't be the same
Marcus from last night, could he?
    Shadow Point was a small town
but it wasn't that small.
    Right?
    “Right,” she lied
to herself.

CHAPTER
NINE

    Marcus tuned out the ribbing
and banter from his brothers and work mates. Joshua and Jax were
making too many wisecracks. When he got home last night, the twins
were watching TV in the living room. They had hounded him about
coming home without the girl, and when he admitted that he didn't
know where she worked, they had given him a look that said, You
might be our big brother but you can be dumb sometimes,
and this is one of those t imes .
    They were working on a solid,
double-story brick house that was recently completed by Gray's
Domain, the construction company owned by the Gray brothers. They
had worked with Gray's Domain for years now. Gray's Domain built the
houses, but Beck's Builders did the tiling, painting, carpeting and
landscaping. Beck's Builders was a renovation and remodeling
company. Marcus had skilled painters, tilers, plumbers,
electricians, carpenters on his staff. Some of them had been with
him since he started the business fifteen years ago.
    Marcus rolled his eyes as Jax
whistled loudly at a skirt.
    “Look where you're
pointing the nail gun, if you don't want your thumb to be part of the
house,” Marcus warned.
    Jax chuckled as the other
guys began to whistle and call out to the approaching female. Not
many females came to the work site, and facing a bunch of
loud-mouthed guys the whole day could be...grating. The female was a
welcome distraction.
    Marcus let his guys have
their fun. The females usually laughed and flirted back as they
walked past. Some stopped to chat for a bit and even