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Jack frowned and reached for the scotch He planned on finishing the entire bottle, because it was that daood It would help hiht to New York where Donovan was scheduled to perforht shows

She had no idea he was co after her And no it wasn’t about love It was about retribution Payback Balance There was no love involved That was long gone Dead and buried Lust did not equate love

He took another sip of scotch and stared into the a it around slowly

That was his story He had no idea hoas going to end, but he was guessing he was going to find out

Chapter Twelve

“And now, let’s talk about your personal life”

Donovan kept her fake sazed up at theit for years now She was in a studio taping a segh Dexler, and the ten uy was funny as hell, but he wasn’t following the damn script She’dabout her personal life This appearance was all about pro an independent film she’d written music for

Note to self Never agree to appear on Hugh’s show again

Maverick Si her the thumbs up because he knew that if she could juh Dexler, she would

Damn Simons She couldn’t cut them out of her life if she wanted to This project was Maverick’s baby, one he orking on with his cousin Beau, and she hadn’t been able to refuse him when he’d asked her to write sos she’d written for this particular project had pretty h the last twelve months

In a year that had been chaotic at best, this one thing had been her salvation The fact that the ride was over was unsettling

And Donovan hated that feeling She liked to knoas co with Jack was so screwed up

He was a roadblock she couldn’t tangle with

Shit Focus