What does it take to secure a heart? For the Smith Security Services team, it’s Flowers, Chocolate, Wishes, and Sparks! Secured Undercover: Fashion Designer Flower Calloway’s next big show could make her famous all over the world, but she ends up uncovering a few secrets that could break her heart instead. Secured Secret: A quick trip to the store for some chocolate therapy, and a fateful encounter with a few gorgeous men, shakes up F.B.I. Agent Genie Cook’s once secure life. Secured Wishes: For Jacob and Gracie, it is love at first sight, but it will take more than a few wishes to hold them together when Jacob’s career threatens to tear them apart. Secured Sparks: Twin brothers Weave and Bob are hardened fighters, but two special women are going to have them throwing off sparks instead of punches.
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CHAPTER ONE
It all began with her name. When
dubbed with a name like Flower, you were doomed if you lived in a small town
like Flatline, Texas. If you add in having to wear glasses as thick as coke
bottles, you were dead meat.
Her parents had been tree-hugging
hippies— at least this was how her aunt always described them. Flower would
never know them since they died working for the Peace Corps shortly after her
birth, leaving her in the care of her great aunt Millie. Millie was a sweet,
conservative woman who did the best she could for Flower, but there wasn’t
anything that could be done for her name. You could shorten it to Flo, but then
she sounded like she should be waitressing at a truck stop somewhere.
Her only friend growing up was Bradley
Henderson. He was overweight and forced to wear some unfortunate headgear, but
one day they discovered they owned the exact same Malibu Barbie, the one with
the brown hair, not the bleach-blonde hooch. They were inseparable from that
moment, and together were teased without mercy. He was Blowfish-Bradley while
she was Flower-Four-Eyes. She thought to go by her middle name once, but it was
Luntz, and after learning the things that rhymed with that she quickly reverted
back to Flower.
Flower swore she would change her name
to something normal, like Mary, as soon as she turned eighteen, but on her
sixteenth birthday, Millie took her to get contacts. That same day she met
Chad.
At seventeen, Chad Williams was
already six foot four. His sweeping, dark hair and laughing blue eyes stole her
young heart away. He told her that her name was beautiful just like her. Of
course, he also told her she was the only girl for him, divested her of her
virginity, and then left her stranded at prom, but the new love of her name
stuck, even if he did not.
Her heart was crushed at the loss of
Chad, and she was sure she would never recover.
She momentarily considered marrying
Bradley just so she wouldn’t have to spend the rest of her life alone, since,
as a teenager, she truly believed that without Chad, the world would come to an
end. Luckily, she didn’t go through with it, especially since Bradley now lived
as Brandy. He danced four nights a week down at the Queen of Diamonds in
Abernathy, and he was everyone’s favorite gal. The Barbie should have been a
tip off.
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