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Joslyn jerks, glancing over her shoulder in surprise “Yes That’s fine, or whatever’s easiest”

“One’s just as easy as the other” I shrug, hating I still res after twelve years I’ve tried extre about her

Returning my attention to breakfast, I pull a clean pan fro it over a new flae I don’t offer up conversation as Joslyn makes her coffee When she takes a seat on a stool at the island, it puts her just in s into the skillet

“I want to apologize again for intruding last night,” she offers me in a quiet voice “I should have waited until we could meet at your office today”

“You weren’t intruding,” I reply It’s not said as a means to soothe her conscience but to set up a jab that’swas complete”

When Joslyn flinches, I feel like shit for being so bloody crass, but I’er over how she left me with the fury over the fact someone tried to kill her

Fuck, I hate she still matters to me when I know she shouldn’t

Twelve years ago, I fell in love with Joslyn Meyers with no more effort than it takes to blow a feather into the air I had just come to work for Jerico at his newly forether—Jerico with the US Marines, while I’d been with the Royal Marines—and I was the first person he asked to join him on this private venture away from the military

Jerico had warned me He’d seen the way I watched her while she perforas pop act, and he’d told me to steer clear

But I hadn’t

I couldn’t

And I had thought Joslyn felt the sa—not even twenty—and I wasn’t much more mature at twenty-six, but it felt like the real deal to me

I guess that’s why it had hurt soit was co One day, ere head over heels in love The next, she’d toldto Hollywood

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