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"Youoverseas isn’t one of your pasti to pull myself from my heated reverie

"SandWorks wasn’t exactly handed topaycheck to paycheck, before I thought of the waterproof ca of a relic from those days"

"I have to ad when you pickedin that car, even spent sohts in it," he said "But when business took off one of the first things I had to learn was how to e my ine hi His business savvy had been obvious since the first day we met

"Yes, but it wasn’t always easy to knoho to trust in the beginning so I had to rely ontells h"

"What do youdefensive at the iirl--your parents must have done well for themselves to be able to send you there"

My home life wasn’t a point of conversation I enjoyed but I didn’t want hi I hadn’t worked hard for my success "My parents put a lot of pressure on me to do well, but they couldn’t afford private school I left Texas with soh college; I didn’t pay off e-Howser"

"Texas? I knew I could detect an accent"

"So could everyone in Boston, I spent a lot of ti it wasn’t a part ofcontradiction"

"Excuse me?"

"You say you don’t like to take risks, but it couldn’t have been easy starting a new life on your own"

I had never considered ht it was irresponsible of me to uproot my life, but Vincent seeure out either Vagabond turned CEO? I didn’t see that corins "You can’t be prepared for everything, Kristen"

A few hours later we landed, the white beaches and swaying pal us froh the small airport to the rental car area Vincent picked out an Aston Martin convertible, which surprisedI’d just stepped off his private jet I dealt ealthy clients on a daily basis and I had soue idea of the luxuries they could afford, but I’d never actually been wealthywhat Vincent’s money could buy had thrown me off a bit

The drive to the beach served well to distractin the air, and the rolling hills that surrounded us were impossible not to notice But as we approached a wood slatted surf shop edging the beach, the creeping fear I’d felt earlier came back full force

"I have to adot out of the car "Jellyfish, sharksyou hear horror stories, you know?"

He tookto let anything happen to you"

Vincent was right, he had been surfing for years, and I really didn’t have any reason not to trust him--with esturing to et you a swi roo bottolance of the total price of our surfing gear--between neimsuits and surfboards, Vincent had spent more than Riley and I spent on restaurants in a ed, I met Vincent by the water and was nearly floored by thebut a pair of white boardshorts that clung loosely to his hips My eyes lingered on his six-pack, the taut ridges of his abdole of his pelvic bones I sed as I noticed the nipple rings glinting fro the various tasteful tattoos around his right arm and chest there was a blackened outline of a dianificance; Vincent ht have been a risk taker but there always see he did

I stu with the side of y look and the side of me that was a little intimidated I’d never been with a man who took so many risks with his body, but I’d also never been with a man who defied all of my expectations Not to mention a man as so irresistibly attractive

His lips slowly curved into a smile as he eyed me up and down "I like the swiaze to meet his "Ready as I’ll ever be"

We waded into the ocean, the shalloaves leaving rivulets of water trickling down Vincent’s bare chest When aist deep he dropped our surfboards by his side and turned toto understand is you have to control your board, you don’t want to find yourself overwhelan "So lay down on your sto my stomach across the board’s waxy surface

"Now press your hips into it" Without warning he gripped the soft curve of ers working against my skin The way he effortlessly maneuvered my body until it was in the correct position ht how to surf

I tried to bite ue but I was determined not to be just another one of Vincent Sorenson’s conquests "How iven?"

"A few"