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I was al been induced into a lazy afternoon food coma, when Sienna turned up the television "Syd?"

I looked up from my daze and saw Jack’s handsome face on television Thealone while photographers snapped pictures of him stopped on the red carpet He looked insanely handso the camera that sexy half-crooked smile that made me melt the first time I met him Then she walked over to him and my heart stopped

Jenna was decked out in one of her usual over the top outfits Her full brsts were barely contained in her hot pink dress that cut down to just below her navel The sides of her dress were cut out and the bottoh as she posed herself forwildly Jack put his hand on her back and together they preened for the flashing ca face turned hard as he waited for the cameras to finish I could tell fro hih Jenna’s smile told a completely opposite story

The newscaster spoke over the footage as the ticker along the bottom of the screen announced that the pictures were from the previous year’s AVN Awards Apparently this year’s norabbed a record number of nominations

Sienna and I starred speechless at the television as the segave a little history on the AVN Awards "The American Adult Video Awards are the Oscars of the adult filories, soeneral film industry awards Others are specific to the erotic film industry This year Cole Productions, led by the always handsoed a record nutime partner, Jenna Favor, remain elusive to theon Jenna’s finger at the awards this year, ladies"

I stared at the TV,open at the story even as the news et ratings You know there is nothing going on with Jack and that creature"

It took oing on with Jack and Jenna, but seeing the him put his hand on her back with a sense of familiarity still made me feel sick

"I know, Sienna But it stilleven a fake story about Jack and another woman Especially that wo her gloating face enjoying standing next to Jack makesand vibrating on the glass table in front of me

"Don’t ignore hirabbed forto see Jack’s handsome face on the screen, but the face that appeared startled me My mother

"No way" I tossed the phone back on the table as if it was fire and I had just burned my hand

"Syd," Sienna warned

"It’s not Jack It’sof her call is a coincidence, or she just sae saw?"

"I don’t really want to find out right now" I stood and looked over to the cheesecake we had ordered earlier with dinner but had been too stuffed to eat "Dessert?"

"Always"

A few hours later I was sure ment She called four times in a short span of tie after the second call to ency and she mentioned she had seen Jack on TV and wanted to check in with me

My mother and I were close and I knew that she would be concerned, but when she wanted infor it from me I wasn’t ready to share that part of Jack’s life with her, although I was sure that whatever sordid ie she had already conjured up in her mind was probably far worse than the truth of the situation

I still hadn’t spoken to Jack about the news seg ment sink in But Jack wasn’t really that type of ht to the core of it He didn’t believe in space or ht back to the first time we had seen each other in Hawaii We met in a bar while he was there with his friends for a bachelor party I had been vacationing with Sienna on as supposed to have been my honeymoon We’d both felt the instant che off of a broken engage to meet anyone Jack had decided we should have an island affair and there was really no stopping hi, but he was clear hat he wanted and didn’t give me an opportunity to overanalyze ht in front ofintoand possessive, but in a confident, sexy kind of way that few ht about Jack, the more I realized that he must not have heard about the news story yet I knew he had a boardthose type of things nor off after a shohen I heardpicture of Jack h I was a little apprehensive to discuss what I had seen on TV Down deep, I kneas acting childish But when it came to Jack, my emotions were difficult to control

"Hey"

"Hey, beautiful" His sexy voice made me smile, even from thousands of hed and quickly changed the subject "Hoas your pajaled for the right word to describe "

"I’d rather hear about your day" I had no idea why I was stalling

"You’re stalling, babe Is everything all right?" Since the first day I’d met Jack, it had always thrown me off balance how he seemed to have the ability to read my uage, but apparently he could do it even through the phone, thousands of miles away

"How do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Knohat I’ when I’m three thousand miles away"

"I told you, babe, you’re i, so why don’t you tell ht, theif he knew so had bothered me "I saw you on TV today"

"Okay"

I flirted my response "You looked really handso part, babe"