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She laughed and then leaned forward, looping her hands around my neck "I need all of you And I don’t want to leave for that long Being sick…having been through all that happened to us It taught ht me what is really ioes to someone who really, really wants it As forto be learning from some brilliant doctors at Irvine"

I reached out and pulled her intoher head onto my shoulder "Adah I have no idea what’s in store for us in the future…or if we are even finished with going through these rough bits in life I just want to say that whatever happens, the good or the bad, I’hts with you"

I closed my eyes, turned and kissed her face Her lips found h fire in it to stoke the flames for more I orderedto wear her out tonight She was still recovering, probably still weak, and we had to go easy for her…

Before I knew it, though, she had pulledunder my shirt to touch my chest "So about that old bucket list…" she said

"Sex in public?" I said in a faux-shocked voice

"The beach is public And look--I brought so of a brand I didn’t recognize I squinted at it in the diht

"You can’t read it but trustthese things have to go through and this brand has by far the best record for breakage"

I laughed Then I stood up and when she tried to pullto make sweet, slow love to e, thank you veryinvolved"

And she laughed all the way back to the front door But when I put her down, sliding her slowly down overanymore

Chapter Forty-Seven

Jordan

Six Weeks Later

It wasn’t easy getting my ass out of bed the first day back to work after Cooddamn--what a week it had been…parties, woed to squeeze in soood to be young, single and rich

But even I had to go to work, and after a week of living as if I didn’t have a care in the world,I spent over re paperwork around--even if virtually on my laptop I really didn’t have much to co coe I lad to live like one The parties, the women, the dream beach house And the open, spacious corner office that had its own view of the indoor atriu to co like death war and wondering if I could wander out a little early for the day to catch up onthe first hunger pangs when our jackass publicity er, Weston, poked his head into , of course

"Fawkes--Need you in Adam’s office, asap" He said it like a word instead of pronouncing all the letters, like that made hi me by my last name irritated the fuck out of me He see the smirk as I deliberately messed up his na it ajar as he headed to the CEO’s office

A few h to make it known that I didn’t juers--I sauntered over to Ada in front of the wall of s behind his desk, his hands shoved into his pants pockets

He’d been on edge for the last few irlfriend, he’d also been working on the secret project with me--a project which stood to make us all a lot e if everything went down as we planned it