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Jack and his brothers had been raised to honor and respect everyone, especially woether, he’d had a hell of a ti their kisses spiral off intoup the drivehen he realized he’d have to figure out how to get a grip on hi for hin

Instead, the ht there

Mary had expected to see Howie and Larry with Jack but, obviously, so had held up the other twothis nervous around a er with her first school crush

Jack’s eyes were darker, evenas he walked toward her She worked to keep her legs froht into his arms

It didn’t help one bit when Jack said, "I’ve ht in her throat at how reed to let Gerry ht he was doing as best for her, probably thinking she’d been playing it safe for too long, but surely that didn’t erous waters she’d ever known Did it?

Trying to break through the heated ic happens"

"I’ic," he said as he reached down to unlock the garage door

The muscles in his arms and back flexed beneath his cotton shirt as he pulled the heavy door open, and though she kneas rude to stare, she couldn’t have stopped herself for the world Especially when she knew firsthand just how good those hard ht her breath for a different reason when he ht about the dust and wires, but what really made an impact on her was the wonder of creation in every spare inch of the roo, Jack" She had no idea how any of it worked, but she wanted to She pointed to a screen with a bunch of knobs all around it "What’s this for?"

"It’s an oscilloscope, which is a type of electronic test instruroup of similar, senerator It’s e use to power up the prototype motherboards"

She put her hand on his aric, isn’t it?"

A muscle jumped in his jaw as he stared down at her "I think you’d better showhow close she was standing to hi your ti to be sorry for," he said, cutting her off before she could finish her apology "But I will be sorry in a ain soht she was a fair person, and a strong one, too But how could either of those things be true when she was desperate for Jack to lose control and kiss her again so that she could get lost in his arh decisions at all?

He deserved her honesty at the very least, if she couldn’t give hith "I missed you these past few days, too There’s no point in trying to pretend I didn’t"

But even that wasn’t nearly honest enough She needed to finally tell his professional between then

"Reo? His na Satch con He was very char soon after I started working for his coether He her Until he decided profits would be even higher without , how foolish she’d been "He was about to inform me of my future replacement on the day I decided to surprise hihed, but there was no humor in it "All three of us were surprised"

"Three?"

"Me, Roer than irls as as naive as I used to be when I first started in the business Clearly, she’d been just as easily chars off with hined a contract, and I knew I couldn’t live with myself if I broke my promise to his board and the investors Those last few photo shoots were horribly painful"

"You would have been perfectly within your rights to break a business pro his personal promise with you"

"No I couldn’t let him kno badly he’d hurt me, or admit to the world what a fool I’d been I was just as foolish as o" She took a breath to try to shake it all off and coic "Since then, I’ve always been careful not to blend my work life with my personal life"

"I would tell you I’m not like him, but you already know that, don’t you?"