The One

He made a bet about her best friend's body. Now he wants a chance with hers.

Nina Okafor doesn't do second chances. She runs Shaw Events, she holds her own, and she learned a long time ago exactly what kind of woman a man like Jason Whitmore keeps — and it isn't her. Not in the light. Not in front of people who matter.

So when they end up in the same hotel bar after a charity gala, with no names exchanged and nothing at stake, one night feels like something she can survive intact.

She's wrong.

Jason Whitmore has spent the last year becoming someone different. Not because anyone asked him to — because he stood in a parking garage with a broken nose and a clear accounting of the man he'd been, and decided that man wasn't worth keeping. He's done the work. He's burned the bridges. He's ready.

He just needs Nina to believe him.