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s lowered and she surrendered to sleep, safe and warm in Jake’s arms

Epilogue

Muck sloshed over the pointed toe of Claire’s knee-high leather boots Great She’d been trying to avoid the otten distracted when Jake grabbed her hand The ers touched, her body turned into a sea of molten want Neverless than an hour ago She needed ether, her lust for hiray, soaked boots, she admitted there was a downside to that

“Hey, Claire, glad to see you on the site” Billy, the construction fore her wet shoes, he spit a brown stream of tobacco juice to the other side of them

“You’ll be even happier when you see this” She snatched her insurance check out of her purse and waved it underneath his nose

“Hot dao?”

“Yep How soon can you start rebuilding?”

“The demolition’s just about finished It’ll take us a few days to clear the site and then we’ll get lanced back at as left of Harvest All that reuys know they’ve got a hell of a job ahead of them”

Claire leaned back against Jake’s wide chest as Billy strode away Glancing up at the building’s charred rehtly as before Now that she had her insurance check, she was going to build again, make it better than it had been

“Still think you can share an office with me and keep your panties on?”

She elbowed Jake in the gut “Shhh The guys will hear you”

“I thought that was your secret plan Get me to open an Absolute Security satellite office in Dry Creek so you could have your wicked ith ht”

The se pressing against her ass told a different story One she’d like to read as soon as she could get hiled at the thought

The chirp of her cellphone stopped her lascivious thoughts Jake gave her a quick peck on the cheek and strolled across the parking lot toward the foreman She reached for her phone buried in her purse Man, he looked good walking away, but she liked watching him come better