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  Here we go. I roll my eyes as she talks. She is always doing this to me. I admit that being single at twenty-eight isn’t in my plan, but I don’t need Aunt Grace playing Cupid.

  “He lives in Chicago, and I gave him your number to look you up.”

  My heart pounds a mile a minute. I hate when she does this. I can just imagine it’s one of her loony friend’s cuckoo relatives who’s probably a loon like all the others.

  “You what?” I sat straight up in bed. “Aunt Grace you can’t do that in today’s age. What if he’s crazy and tries to track me down and kill me?”

  Thank God, I live in a building with a doorman that has to buzz up any visitors. And, double thank God, I have The Clapper.

  “Good Italian family,” she says, ignoring me.

  Here we go again.

  “Don’t you know most people my age are waiting well into their thirties to get married?” I inform her.

  “Just keep an open mind. In my day if you weren’t married by twenty, you were considered an old maid.”

  “Lucky for us we aren’t in your day.”

  “Good Italian family,” she repeats before she hangs up. Aunt Grace always gets the last word.

  Needless to say, my nerves are shot, and it takes me over an hour to calm down. I must’ve turned my alarm off because I didn’t wake up for my run.

  ~Carpe Bead ‘em~

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  Tonya has written over 15 novels and 4 novellas, all of which have graced numerous bestseller lists including USA Today. Her novels have garnered over ten national award making her an International Bestseller.

  Best known for stories charged with emotion and humor, and filled with flawed characters, her novels have garnered reader praise and glowing critical reviews. She lives with her husband, three teenage boys, two very spoiled schnauzers and one ex-stray cat in Northern Kentucky and grew up in Nicholasville. Now that her boys are teenagers, Tonya writes full time but can be found at all of her guys high school games with a pencil and paper in hand. Come on over and FAN Tonya on Goodreads.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the permission in writing from the author or publisher.

  Edition: November 2014 Copyright © by Tonya Kappes