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CHAPTER ONE
Pushing lasses from my eyes to rest on top ofsun Letting er, I push my toes into the soft white sand Jake is beside ether, as he talks on the phone to Stuart
"Just tell them to do the job I pay them to do If they have a problem with that, then remind them they are not irreplaceable…I know Fuckin’ idiots…oh, you know that thing I asked you to do for h, Jake ends his call and tosses his iPhone onto the side table
"All okay?" I ask, turning my head to look at him
God, he is beautiful I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to how breath-stealing Jake truly is
He looks eventhe freckles on his nose to show more prominently He looks yu’s fine," he answers, sounding a little distracted "Just people not doing what I pay them to do"
"You want to talk about it?"
"No" He lifts my hand to hisa specific kiss on s I want to do with you while we are here, Tru, and talking about work is not one of the his desire to not talk about work, I say, "Do you need to get back to LA early to sort the problem out?"
Jake shifts onto his side to face ether here, alone Nothing and no one will getthe next five days keeping you in the minimal ayou senseless"
A shiver runs down my spine
I love it when he talks toIt’s incredibly hot
"You’re such a romantic" I roll my eyes playfully
"You wouldn’t have aze drift to serious "No, I wouldn’t"
I reach over and grabmy eyes drift over the beautiful scenery before me
We’re on a private island in Fiji More specifically, we’re staying on Turtle Island, one of the Yasawa Islands in Fiji It’s where The Blue Lagoon was filmed It’s private and exclusive and has only fourteen villas on the whole island, but Jake being Jake, he has rented out the whole island for a week A week of total isolation for hiuards, are with us, of course, staying separately in one of the other villas at the far side of the island I’ve barely seen them since I arrived here And aside from the staff who live on the island, it’s just Jake and me
That’s how it’s been for the last two days, and it is heaven Absolute heaven
After the show at Madison Square Garden, when Jake did his stage dash to coot a little crazy…well, crazier, as life with Jake is always crazy
Basically, I wasn’t thinking straight after everything that had happened that night, and I wasn’t as s As Jake and I entered the hotel after leaving the show, apress spotted it, and all hell broke loose
For the next two days ere literally confined to the hotel Press and fans gathered and hollered outside It was suffocating When Jake suggested we get away and leave the country for a while, I was fully on board
I left all the travel arrange as ere alone
And alone we are
I love being here with hiether that it’s been just hio back to LA, but in all honesty it was a halfhearted offer I don’t want to let this go--e have here right now--the complete solitude to do ant, ant
But I know there’s so hi to Stuart was clear enough to tell me that Even now, I can tell his ers tapping restlessly against my hand
I hate that he won’t share with me what it is I know it’s because he doesn’t want to burden me, but I want hi withthings alone anyon, and we lost each other as a result of it
Jake is still only a feeeks’ clean, and I, for one, want to keep hilad he’s here, away from all temptation at the moment Well, all tes will be for hio back to the real world
"You fancy a swioes in?" I nod in the direction of the water lapping the white sand, deciding not to push the subject further I’ll tackle his communication issues later, when he’s aze roa all the muscles in s
"You’re asking if I want a chance to see you earing that bikini?" A grin curves his gorgeous lance down at my favourite and most recent bikini purchase It’s white with pink flowers and has tiny diamantes sewn in I picked it up froht
"How do youas si, as I clilasses off my head and drop them onto my towel Hands on hips, I stare down at hiain "When you’re in the equation, sweetheart, everything is about sex"