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Flinching from past dating misfires and self-doubt, she tries to find a flaw that will justify her fear, yet his warmth and confidence steadily disarm her defenses. Their conversation turns into an intimate, dance-led moment that rewrites her sense of who she is and what she wants, setting the emotional momentum for what follows.","Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook.  \nGet a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Click below to sign up  \nand see terms and conditions.  \nCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP  \nAlready a subscriber? Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you more of what you like to read. You will continue to receive exclusive offers in  \nyour inbox.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPrologue  \nEMERY  \nOn paper, we never made sense.  \nHe’s always wanted a family; I never even planned to get married. He surfsand hikes, bikes and runs; I hate sand and sun, and run only if death is the alternative or procuring coϦee requires it. He’s an extrovert and charms everyone he meets; I like dogs more than people. He’s always down to dance with every grandma, drunk bridesmaid, and adorable ϲower girl at a wedding; you could not forcibly peel me from the wall during the “Cha Cha Slide.” He works to live; I live to work.  \nBut when I surprised everyone and took a long weekend to attend my cousin’s wedding in Las Vegas, all it took was hearing his laugh from across the banquet hall for everything I thought I knew about myself to change.  \nOur eyes met, and his smile faltered for just a breath before he turned to the heavily tattooed man he was talking to, said something, and then made his way across the room to me, his eyes locked on mine. When he was only a foot away, I registered how tall he was, how broad, how attractive.  \nShit.  \nI wanted to ϯnd some visible ϲaw. I couldn’t.  \nBeneath my sternum, an anxious lever ϲickered desperately, begging the universe to let me not fuck it up. I’d never been good at meet-cutes; my best friend had long since stopped bothering to set me up on blind dates. The ϯrst time, I apparently turned the guy oϦ by talking about botϲies while he tried to eat his orzo. I pissed the next one oϦ by correcting his use of “less” when he meant “fewer.” Then there was the guy who talked the entire meal about the mountain of supplements I should be taking—and could I use his referral code  \nat checkout?—before asking about my gym routine. Joke’s on him: I don’t even know where the nearest gym is. The ϯnal nail in the blind-date coϩn was the one that ended before we’d even ordered entrees. It started out ϯne, but then he mentioned his favorite book was American Psycho. I knew my time would be better spent back in the lab. For, like, forever.  \nSo that’s what I did, and gave up on dating entirely. My job was the best partner I could ask for anyway.  \nBut then I came to Vegas, heard a perfect laugh, and suddenly he was in front of me. My mind went blank. Standing this close to him—he was wearing a black suit, no tie, his white shirt unbuttoned at the neck and exposing a peek of smooth, tanned collarbone—I felt as though the universe somehow answered my wish. I was no longer the lab-rat book nerd I’d always known myself to be. I was the woman in the blue strapless sequined dress who’d actually put on makeup for the ϯrst time in weeks, who’d agreed to let someone else braid her usually ponytailed hair into a woven crown on top of her head, who’d had two glasses ofwine and wanted nothing more than to give the rest ofthe night to this man standing only inches away.  \nI would think back to this moment later when we stood side by side on Torrey Pines Beach, ϯngers intertwined, and the waves broke over our shins, cleaning away our trailing footprints like we’d never stepped anywhere but right where we were planted. That ϯrst night, he made me feel like I’d been spawned into the world, at this wedding, solely for him to walk across the room to me.“I’m Luca,” he said, voice deep and calm.  \n“Emery.”  \nHe took my hand, his smile turning from polite and a little unsure to ϲirtatious and elated.“Hi, Emery,” he whispered.  \nMy heart did a painful lurch. Hot and endearing. 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