This story is pretty long, so go to the ******** for the start of the romance!
It was a beautiful fall night when the citizens of San Diego’s business community gathered for a fancy gala to raise money for one of the city’s prominent charities. The ballroom was crowded with the power brokers and beautiful people of San Diego, but Ms. Lily only had eyes for one man.
Thomas James Jensen was a tall, handsome man whom people naturally gravitated toward. He was well known for his intelligence and kindness, but it was his warm blue eyes, easy smile, and infectious laugh that people remembered. And on that evening, Lily had decided that he would be her target for the night. Some way, somehow, she would know him better by the time the night ended.
Now for Lily, getting men’s attention had never been a problem. Standing over six feet tall in her Michael Kors heels, her long platinum blonde hair and form-fitting evening gown were the talk of the crowd. Combine that with model good looks and the confident strut of a former track star, and the result was a force of power women couldn’t ignore, and men couldn’t resist.