Chapter 1

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"Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep".

"Ugh shut up stupid alarm" I say as I slam my hand on my clock. I hate waking up at 4:30 am but I have to get to work on time as I am the manager of my department and have lots of work to do.
I hop in the shower and hurry to finish my morning routine and get to the bus stop before I miss the bus to work.

"5:00 am" crap I'm going to miss the bus if I don't hurry so forgetting anything to eat I run out of my small apartment in east Lafayette and run to the bus stop. I skid to a stop just as the bus is pulling up to the stop. I am so out of breath and out of shape ugh. I put in my change and go to the back of the bus where no one is this early in the morning.

As I'm on the bus I start thinking about my life. Sometimes I hate that I didn't go to college but I needed to help support my family because my mama was sick and couldn't work. So I graduated highschool early and started working at Smiths Market as a cashier. Gradually I worked my way up to produce manager and while its not the best job in the world at least it pays the bills for the most part. Oh well I make do with what I have and one day I hope I will be able to live my dream and move to Nashville, Tn to pursue my music career. Not that I could get a recording contract with the way I look though. I mean I am pretty but I'm a big girl and there are almost no big girls in Country music. You see I'm 25, 5'3 and fluffy (I wear a size 20/22). I have blue-green eyes and light golden brown hair that goes slightly below my butt. And I don't dress like everyone else, I love dresses and skirts so that is all I wear. And even my shirts are on the more modest side. Its not that I don't want to look sexy but its hard to feel sexy with all these rolls especially when all you see are skinny women being called beautiful constantly and you are just referred to as the pretty eyes or fluffy cute or my personal favorite "your pretty for a big girl". At least my name as a catchy ring to it "Eliza Grace" yep I like it.  Oh well when life gives you lemons make a meringue pie... YUM......
I see the store come in sight so I hit the stop requested button, get off and walk the rest of the way to work. Here's to another long day.

12:30 pm

I am almost done with my morning work when I look up from the way produce rack and see the sexiest man I have ever seen with his tall toned body, his dirty blonde hair and blue eyes, he was absolutely gorgeous. I think I was going to drool if I didn't stop staring and just when I was about to look away, he looked my way, locked eyes with me and smirked at me before stepping into the store managers office. I stared at the door to the office for a good 5 minutes before I turned to my assistant manager to give him instructions while I was on my lunch break.

"Hey James can you please fill the rack? Here's a list of what needs to be put out and when you get done you can take your lunch" I tell him even though I'm still not fully focused back on work yet as I can't get that mans sexy eyes out of my head. 
"Sure thing boss. Everything alright?" he asks me. "Oh yea I'm fine just thinking" I smile and head to clock out and go sit outside for my break.

Nicks POV

"Nick do you think we will ever find her?" Lincoln asks me from his place behind the steering wheel of the rental truck we got from the airport.
"I don't know Linc but I hope so and soon" I reply back just thinking that I would love for us to find our girl as much as he would. Oh well I don't need to dwell on that to much right this minute, for now I need to focus on the new client that we are looking at becoming silent partners with. You see we are the CEOs of Jones, Graham and associates. We dabble in a wide variety of different things specializing in small business and contract deals with major corporations. We are headed to meet with Mr. Smith at his grocery store to talk about expanding into multiple stores. I sigh as I look out the window and try to focus on our deal and not on the woman we hope will come into our life's to love and cherish. You see me and Lincoln go way back because our fathers are best friend and they started the business and we took over after they retired early. Me and Linc have been friends for as long as I can remember and we have always shared everything from our hot wheels to our homework. So it is no surprise that we should share our woman as well. But we have yet to find the one because its always the bimbos that are just out to get our money that seem to be interested in us and not only that but neither of us want someone skinny. Not that we think there is anything wrong with a smaller woman, we just aren't attracted to them. We want our girl to be a healthy, fluffy, curvy plus sized beauty and we have yet to meet anyone who is not only beautiful but smart as well.

I look up as I realize we are already in the parking lot and Lincoln is parking the truck. He looks at me and says "Why don't you go get the meeting started and while i go look around the building and analyze the property". I just nod my head in agreement and walk inside. When I get inside I look around inspecting everything in sight from the layout of the building to the way the cashiers are greeting the customers. I continue looking until my gaze stops on the most beautiful creature I've ever laid eyes on with her curvy figure slightly hidden behind a loose work shirt and a flowy skirt. I smirk at her as she blushes bright red at being caught staring in my direction. I turn and head into the door that I assumed was the office just so I wouldn't go right up to her and start kissing her right there where she stood..

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