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was hard to find. Then she’d emailed most of the companies and described her special requirements. So far, several had emailed back, explaining that while they might have the saying she needed, they couldn’t guarantee that the boxes they sent contained only that saying. Which meant she was right back where she started.
    Of course, she could always add the cost of those million-plus hearts to the amount Nanette Ogilvy agreed to at their meeting. But even someone with extensive resources might balk at that kind of extra expense being tacked onto her bill.
    Meredith shook her head helplessly, trying to decide what else she could do. But at that point there was nothing, except maybe contact the people at the company that produced the hearts to see if they’d be willing to help.
    “Tomorrow,” she murmured, feeling so bone-tired she was ready to curl up on the floor instead of dragging her weary body all the way to bed.
    “No floor sleeping,” she warned herself as she closed the vintage-candy websites and went to the Divine Desserts site to make sure everything was in order before she called it a day. But when the site opened up in glorious shades of jet black and fire-engine red, she sensed something wasn’t right.
    Prying her bleary eyes completely open and forcing her half-comatose brain on full alert, Meredith leaned closer to the screen as she studied those glorious shades, which had always in the past been spring-leaf green and blushing-bride pink.
    “What the—?” She finally came fully awake.
    Then as realization dawned, she knew what wasn’t right. Everything .
    “Oh, my God,” she moaned and yanked the cell phone from her pocket, angrily smacking her finger down on her webmaster’s speed-dial key.
    “Answer, Steve,” she said. “Dammit, answer!”
    But he didn’t, and a minute later, the call went over to voicemail.
    Meredith shouted the problem into the phone, then punched the end key and called Vlad.
    “Vlad, are you there?” she said when she heard a click at his end.
    “For you, always,” he answered, a smile in his voice.
    Meredith drew a breath, trying to calm herself. It didn’t work. Whenever she thought of her website, her heart pounded and her blood pressure soared. “Go to my company website.”
    “Why? What’s wrong?”
    She stared at the computer screen, ready to spit fire. “According to the site, my company is now called Devilish Delights , and among other things, I am selling edible crotch-less underwear and frosted condoms, whatever the heck those are.” She slammed her fist down on the desk. “Dammit, I’ve been hacked.”

Chapter Six
    Two hours later, Meredith stood peering over Vlad’s shoulder as he sat at her desk, working on her website.
    “Can you fix it?” she asked as she abandoned her post behind him to pace across the room. At least the weariness was gone. Apparently being tired and being ready to commit murder couldn’t exist simultaneously in the same body.
    “Sure,” he said. “No problem.”
    Meredith nodded, relieved but still equally pissed. If she ever found out who was doing this to her, she would kill the creep.
    “Do you know how long it’s been this way?” he asked.
    “After all the trouble I’ve had with my office computer, I decided to check my company site several times a day. As of four-thirty this afternoon, everything was fine, so it hasn’t been long.” Meredith sighed. Just long enough to turn her business into an X-rated paradise for horny consumers.
    “Message just came in for you,” Vlad said, and she stopped pacing and went back to the desk, silently praying it wasn’t like the twenty-seven other messages she’d received in the past fifty-two minutes.
    As she leaned over his shoulder, she tapped the message tab, stared at the screen, and couldn’t restrain herself when she read the thing. Angry, frustrated, and seriously at the end of her rope, she gave a growl and stabbed her finger at the message.
    “I just got