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“How’s the foot?”

Jack tossed his e hair was tied back, her face free of low, and he was struck by how feminine and fresh she looked Truthfully, she didn’t look a day past five years ago

“It’s fine”

That damn book was still in her hands, held in front of her face like a shield, the sale time he’d looked her way

“Maybe I should take a look at it” He was goading her but couldn’t seem to help himself

“Nope All good”

Huh She was as prickly as a porcupine Jack supposed he should just leave well enough alone, but he couldn’t Her little slip up earlier had been on his mind for the past few hours

“I’d have to have sex to be pregnant”

See laid these days, and that s that he shouldn’t be thinking about He knew the sexual che they’d never lost It was si beneath the surface, and if not handled properly, it would explode

Hell if she asked him what he’d seen out in the water he wouldn’t be able to answer her because truthfully, all he’d seen were is open and ready

He wanted her Plain and si inconvenient

No as he going there with her At this point, Jack wasn’t sure either one of theo in the bedroom From day one, they’d had a volatile relationship They loved and then they hurt and then they made up He supposed it was inevitable that it had ended so badly

>That last argus Jack had left, pissed off and freaked out by the depth of his feelings for her A woman who drove him crazy and a woman as as stubborn as he was Tucker had talked him down from that one Told hi when you were gaining the world It was the universe’s way of keeping you humble

When he’d coone Derek was still there, his buddy had been on hand for the entire ugly thing, and he’d handed Jack the Dear John letter and a stiff scotch

Fuck it Ti else