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Chapter 1

Jacque Pierce sat in theseat in her bedroohbors' house across the street I'ht to herself Just curious

“Yeah,” she snorted Only if you call curious having your eyes glued to your neighbors' house like a hound on the hunt Oh, well I can call a spade 'a spade' to, she told her conscience

The Henrys were having a foreign exchange student stay with them this year They didn’t have any children of their own and Jacque didn’t know if that was by choice or because they weren’t able to have children Either way, Jacque was here to get the nitty-gritty on the situation and report to her best friends afterward

So here she sat, scoping out the neighbors house with her lights turned off and blinds cracked just enough to see To top off her James Bond experience, she even had binoculars! Now if she only had the nifty background ans

She'd been sitting in herfor an hour and was just about to give up when a black stretch liht A foreign exchange student arriving in a liet a better look, settling thee She knew this was a little much, but honestly, in a town of 700 there just wasn’t a whole lot of exciteet it

The driver got out of the li, and the boy who stepped out of that liuy she'd ever seen And that was only his profile Wow, I mean as all Jacque could think Jacque couldn’t even iine what his entire face must have looked like He was tall, probably six foot one or so, and his hair was jet black It was longer on top and she could tell that he had bangs that fell across his face They swept to the left, partially covering that eye He had broad shoulders and, froh cheek bones, a straight nose, and full lips She realized herover this guy She shut it and watched as he and his driver conversed It all seeed the boy with obvious deep affection He ht

Suddenly, the boy turned as if he had heard what she was thinking and looked straight at her , straight at her Jacque froze, unable to look away frohts seeht she heard the words: “At last, my Jacquelyn”

Jacque shook her head, trying to clear the haze that had filled it After she came to her senses from the intense stare, she recapped in her ht about the cheekbones, nose, and lips What she wasn’t prepared for was that his crystal blue eyes now seeht; the hair that fell across his forehead and over his eye only added to his mysteriousness Overall he had a very masculine, very beautiful face

The shirt he earing was black and, thanks to her handy dandy binoculars, she was able to see that it fit tightly and showed off a muscular chest and flat stomach He had a black leather biker jacket on, but past that she couldn’t see because the car was in the way She is were every bit as nice as the rest of him

When she looked back at the street, theinto the Henrys' house As she saw the door close she heard the voice again

“Soon”

Jacque sat there for a fewsee what felt like a thousand tiether, picked up the phone, and dialed Jen’s number

Three rings later Jen answered “What’s the word?”

Jacque took a slow breath and said “I think you better come over”

“I’ up

Jacque grinned to herself It was great to have a friend you could always depend on to be there when you needed her