.. in the right circumstances, of course."Nate was a bit dazzled by her smile, and she smiled quite a bit, laughing through much of the dinner. His wo...ds had left his mouth before he had even thought them through."Are you in the market for a tough cowboy, Miss Vega?"Her eyes dropped suddenly and she held her lips tightly together. "Nate… I don't think I'm looking for anything like that... at least, not right now. But," she said, looking back at him with her gorgeous brown eyes, "I wouldn't say. You know you've always wanted to do something like this.” She was teasing me while maintaining the calm of a negotiation. “I also know it's against our rules. You know the rules are there for a reason, Eliza,” I returned her gaze as I thought about the prospect and struggled with a decision. “Yes, but I know the rules; you taught me perfectly, and I'm the broker of this scene. Everything will be kept safe.” “Even our safety protocols have limits of effectiveness,” I said. “This sort of thing. She picked up a gallon of the blue stuff for the washer bottle.There was a banner over the register counter... We Sold A Winner! she read.“What?” she asked the clerk.“The BIG one,” the girl responded.“Who to?”“We don’t know, they haven’t come forward, yet,” said the clerk.Wendy paid for her purchases ... including the cup of half coffee half hot chocolate and left.Spring turned into summer, nearly every day the News was all about the lottery ticket.The strap on her green purse broke and Wendy. “Oh please, I can see it all in your sultry eyes. If you didn’t have your hand on the gear shift right now, you would have it on something else long, hard and pointed upwards,” Alex says chuckling.“We have only just left the flat, you are going to have to wait all day for a bit of action.”“Yeah, we will see about that,” he says, in a low confident voice. They carry on driving through narrow country lanes enjoying the rare hot sunshine on their faces, singing in less than pitch-perfect tune, and.