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me, there’s the little issue of my job.”
    “I’ll pay you for your time off, of course. Double if you want—money isn’t a problem.”
    She gave him the universal get dressed signal by slapping his shirt against his chest. “You’re absolutely right; money isn’t a problem. I have at least eight weeks of vacation time saved up since I never have a reason to take it. The problem is that the idea is ludicrous!”
    Reid had to think quickly or he was going to lose this fight, and something deep down told him to not lose this fight . He needed her to get him where he wanted to be in two months. He was as sure of it as he was his own name. Suddenly the perfect lure came to him, and though the idea gave him equal parts excitement and anxiety, he cast it anyway.
    “I’ll teach you how to get your doctor if you do this for me.”
    Lucie had been on her way out of the exam room, all but dismissing him and his offer of being roomies, but that simple statement had her feet glued several feet before the threshold. She was hooked, now he just had to reel her in carefully, or he’d lose her and his chances for a rematch. He approached her slowly from behind as he spoke.
    “I’ll show you how to act, what to say…everything you need to know to make him notice you. If there’s one thing I know, its women and what they do that turns men on to the point of utter distraction.” Her head turned to the side. Not a big movement, but enough to let him know he had her attention. “You’ll have him eating out of the palm of your hand in no time. I guarantee it.”
    Long moments passed in slow motion. His pulse raced in his ears as he waited for her to call him an idiot or storm off in a fit of disgust. That Jackson would skin Reid alive for teaching Lucie anything having to do with seduction should’ve made him think twice about his offer, but he couldn’t bring himself to retract it.
    She shook her head as though rejecting her own thoughts. “Sorry, but—”
    Before she could finish shooting him down, a dark-haired gentleman poked his head around the door frame. “Lucie, I’m so sorry to interrupt, but I seem to have already rubbed off the, uh,” the man glanced at Reid and cleared his throat, “patient number you gave me earlier. Since I was on my way out I thought I could get it from you real quick. I brought paper this time.”
    What. A. Douche. It took everything in him not to pound the guy right then and there. That this guy was the one Lucie had the hots for couldn’t have been more plain if she’d introduced him as Dr. Clueless Dumbass.
    Reid watched Lucie as she stared at the doctor for long moments, almost as though she was stuck in some internal monologue and forgot that time was still ticking away out here in the real world. Something about giving him the patient number had thrown her off. When the man cleared his throat and held out a small piece of paper, she blinked back into action.
    “Of course, Dr. Mann.” After quickly scribbling a phone number on the paper she said, “Here you go.”
    “Great, thanks. I’ll see you later.”
    Reid waited. Three seconds ticked by…seven…twelve. At last Lucie squared her shoulders, spun around, and said, “You’ve got yourself a deal.”

Chapter Three
     
    Lucie curled into the corner of her couch, knees drawn up to her chest. She held a book in her hands, but even as her eyes scanned the lines of black type, her mind didn’t register a single word.
    Her stomach was all in knots. She hadn’t eaten dinner she’d been so nervous. Which was flat-out ridiculous because it was only Reid. Her brother’s best friend. A guy who’d practically lived at her house when she was a kid. A guy who she’d mooned after for the better part of her second decade of life…A guy who was quite possibly the sexiest man she’d ever seen and whose half-naked image must have burned itself onto the underside of her eyelids because every time she closed them it was right there