Undertow

<p><strong>HAYDEN</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Cheerful doe-eyed mildly neurotic-Gemma Cane is not at all my type but when the brown-eyed beauty stormed into my office all fired up and wearing the garb of a belly dancer I couldn't tear my gaze away.</p><p><br></p><p>She was seeking justice but I had something else in mind.</p><p><br></p><p>She couldn't afford me but I had other ideas about that too...</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>GEMMA</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Arrogant cocky an outright bully-Hayden Atwater is the sort of man I usually go out of my way to avoid but when my horrible neighbor stepped way over the line I wanted to crush him and to do that I knew I'd have to fight fire with even hotter fire.</p><p><br></p><p>The notoriously cutthroat lawyer was the first weapon I could think of but the last man I should trust. I realized that as my anger subsided and I registered the predatory gleam in his stormy ocean eyes.</p><p><br></p><p>I left his office empty-handed but now he won't leave me alone.</p><p><br></p><p>I know there can never be anything between us and we are completely impossible but that word isn't in Hayden's vocabulary. If there's no room for him in my life he'll <em>make</em> room.</p><p><br></p><p>But then disaster strikes.</p><p><br></p><p>Surely now even Hayden can see that some things really are impossible and maybe we're one of them.</p>