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own. I paid them full asking price
and covered all my own closing expenses, so it’s not like I cheated them,
either. I don’t know whether you’re their son or not, Mr. Mitchell, but let me just tell you that if you are their son, you’re a crappy one. They told me about Ken’s heart
attack and all their medical expenses. Where have you been? In Manhattan?
Worrying about making money?”
    “You think I don’t know that?” he challenged. Wade’s eyes
flashed with a touch of a temper she’d seen years before. “I’m not proud of it,
but I can fix it.”
    Tori stood up from her seat. “You’re just going to have to find
another way to soothe your conscience. Send them on a cruise or something,
because you aren’t going to browbeat me into selling this land. And that’s
final. Please leave.”
    Wade stood, bringing his head a hairbreadth away from scraping
the top of her camper. He took a step toward her, and his body loomed large and
intimidating in such close proximity.
    Tori couldn’t help the surge of awareness that ran through her
body as he came near. Apparently it was far easier to despise him from a
distance. It had been a long time since she’d been in the same room as Wade, and
she’d certainly never been this close to him, but her body remembered him. With
him inches away, looking down at her with a focused, penetrating intensity, her
spine wanted to turn to jelly. His warm scent, a familiar mix of spicy cologne
and salty skin, swirled around her with every breath she drew into her
lungs.
    She finally took a step back, pressing herself against the
kitchen counter. She didn’t like being this close to Wade. It messed with her
focus, and that just made her even more irritated. Tori couldn’t let him use his
size or sexuality to intimidate her.
    “This isn’t over,” he said, pinning her with his dark green
eyes before grabbing his coat and walking out into the cold.

Two
    W ade remembered Victoria Sullivan as being
smart and beautiful. Apparently she was also the most infuriating and stubborn
woman he’d ever encountered.
    Wade stomped back to his four-wheeler and stood there a moment,
letting the cold sink in and douse the aggravating mix of anger and attraction
surging through his veins. When he was back in control, he shrugged into his
coat, jumped on the ATV and peeled out of her yard in a doughnut as he used to
do as a teenager. The back tires sent a sheet of snow flying against the side of
her trailer. It was juvenile, but she seemed to bring out the worst in him.
    He was fuming as he plowed through the snow. It should be
illegal for a woman that gorgeous to have a mouth that irritating. Honestly,
once she’d peeled out of her jacket and revealed a snug pair of jeans and a
fitted, long-sleeved T-shirt, he’d almost forgotten why he was there. It wasn’t
until she picked up her shotgun again that he realized he’d followed her inside
without her permission.
    Victoria had been one of his best and brightest architects.
He’d hired her straight out of college when the company he and Alex had started
was still small and spending more than it earned. She’d contributed quite a bit
to making their first few big projects a success. He’d even considered asking
her out to dinner. But then his assistant had come to him with concerns about
seeing Victoria at a restaurant looking a little too cozy with one of their
potential suppliers. She had been quite vocal about giving the man an upcoming
contract, and the implication was clear. He fired her on the spot. Part of him
regretted that. And not just because she had knockout curves, flawless skin and
long, fiery red hair that made him warm under the collar.
    He had wanted to believe her when she said she didn’t do it.
The thought of her with another man nearly made him crazy. But the logical part
of his brain was infuriated by her audacious attempt to influence corporate
contracts like that. Sleeping with a potential contractor was just as bad