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"Tara, you already like me At the moment you’re just pissed atabout the fact that you like reed to spend four days alone with Brad Willamott, if he’d made you the saain without saying anything

Jay acknowledged her silence for the admission it was "Then let’s just lay it out in the open I like you, Tara I like you a lot And I’ on that attraction during the next four days All I want is for you to let me show you who I really a to take us four days to get down to South Carolina"

"What’s in South Carolina?"

"Apart froreat food and fabulous weather?" He paused for a moment "A part of me that few people have ever seen"

His past Me to share them with Tara Because then finally she would understand that he was nothing like the rich men she knew

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Tara carried a steae They’d been aboard the yacht for over three days now, and she had to ad the trip

Jay was re true to his word: he’d made no sexual advances, hadn’t as much as kissed her since they’d left the Hauest cabin, while her host had spent half the nights steering the boat, anchoring in quiet coves for only a few hours every night

He’d stocked the boat well The industrial size refrigerator and freezer held everything she could possibly want to eat, and Jay had surprised her with one deliciousthe ether He truly seemed to love the water

"Thanks for the coffee," he said now and reached for the i couldn’t slide out even if the boat tilted a bit with the waves

"How long have you been up?" she asked and scanned the horizon

"Couple of hours Did I wake you when I started the engine?"

"I slept right through it" She’d slept well the last three nights "But you couldn’t have slept more than a few hours"