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-Hot Fudge and Peppermint-

Book III of the Second Chances Trilogy

By Mary Taffs

Published by Awe-Struck E-Books

Copyright ┬й2000

ISBN: 1-58749-022-6

PROLOGUE
April

The boring old Nik would never have done this. She would have waited for Bill to call or come by. She
would have been afraid she'd shock him with her forwardness if she stopped by his dorm room with a
sundae, on a night when they'd both planned to study.

But that was the boring old Nik - the Nik who spent her evenings and nights studying. The new Nik
wasn't flashy and her face and figure weren't breath-taking, but she was having fun for once in her life.

Thanks to Bill. She might be a senior and him a freshman, but he was a master at seizing the moment. He
was a master at pleasing a woman in bed, too - and boring old Nik wasn't nearly as boring now that she
was the woman in his bed.

She hadn't discarded all vestiges of her old caution, though. Walking into his dorm and up the stairs to his
hall made nerves skitter in her stomach and her hand feel slimy on the cardboard ice cream dish. The
promise of his special-for-her smile was enough to steady her and propel her the last few feet to his door.
She calmed her breathing, then knocked.

No answer, but she heard sounds through the door. It was probably the radio, and it might be loud
enough that he hadn't heard the knock. She knocked again, louder this time.

And she waited. Finally, the door cracked open a couple of inches, and Bill demanded, "Geez guys, can't
you take a hint?" He wore only jeans, unbuttoned at the top, and his face went slack when he saw her.
"Nik."

She shoved the door open another two or three feet, and the smell hit her. The smell of sex. The room
was lost in shadows, but she knew there was a woman in Bill's bed.

She had the crazy idea that she ought to apologize for disturbing him - or say something completely civil
and thoroughly cutting like her brother's fianc├йe Julie would. But really, all she wanted was to disappear,
to magically transport back to her dorm room where she wouldn't have to pretend she wasn't
devastated.