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Chapter Four

Jaden and Jonas strolled to a stop before Claudia and Samiyah.

“Couldn’t keep away, huh?” Claudia said to Jonas.

“Never,” he responded with his gaze on his beautiful wife. Samiyah was still bent over laughing at Claudia’s last comment.

“What’s your excuse?” Claudia posed the question to Jaden.

“Who said I needed an excuse? I merely wanted to spend as much time with you on this beautiful island as possible.”

“Why? So you can violate me?” She wiggled her eyes suggestively.

“Would you like that, Claudia?”

He stepped closer to her. Her nipples hardened again.

“Would you?” She countered.

Jaden held her with a piercing stare, his body temperature going from warm to molten. It was all he could take. Closing the distance, Jaden’s mouth pushed against hers slow and inviting. Claudia’s arms curled around his neck. A hot cinnamon flavor caressed her palate, and she moaned against his lips.

“Mmmmm.”

Jaden’s toned arms slid around her waist and up her back. He pulled her deeper, his fingers finding the round grooves of her bottom. Claudia’s leg lifted to his waist.

“As I told you before, we have rooms,” Samiyah said.

“Mmhmm,” Jonas agreed. “And they’re paid for, so you guys should think about using them.”

Jaden was nearly too far away to give a damn. Tearing his mouth from hers Jaden spoke, “There’s nothing like a little love on the beach.”

“Yes,” Claudia agreed before she had a chance to think clearly.

A wickedly prodigious smile danced across his moist lips. Without warning, Jaden lifted Claudia tossing her over his shoulder. She squealed, and Jonas and Samiyah laughed shaking their heads.

“Should we be worried?” Samiyah inquired.

“Nah,” Jonas’ responded. “They’re both capable of making the right decisions, don’t you think?”

Samiyah laid her head against Jonas chest. “You’re right.”

“Of course, I am.”

The newlywed couple traipsed further down the beach in the opposite direction, set on having their own sexual display in the glow of moonlight.

Four days later

The Canon Image Class copier sent invoice after invoice sliding out of the printing machine one after the other. Claudia stood before it waiting patiently to gather her files and put them in their respective records. It was early Tuesday morning, and she’d come into work with a spring in her step. The weekend in San Juan went better than expected and Claudia arrived in Chicago two days ago. Thoughts of Jaden were at the front of her mind.

She hadn’t heard from him since returning from Puerto Rico, and it was something Claudia wanted to get used to. No matter how much she told herself she was better off. To be consumed by a man like Jaden would probably send her on a path to a broken heart. Specifically, because he was a playboy. But she couldn’t help but mull over the way his hands expertly caressed her skin. The way his skilled mouth landed in every crevasse her body owned. The way his muscular thighs felt behind hers. The exquisite torture of his sex thrusting into her heated core. Claudia squirmed standing at the machine trying to regain her composure. But it was no use. Jaden hadn’t left her mind, and no matter how much she tried to tell herself it was just sex, Claudia knew it was so much more than that.

When she’d awakened the next day in Puerto Rico to an empty bed, the disappointment Claudia felt was substantial. But what had she expected exactly?

“A girl can only wish,” she spoke to herself.

“Tell me about this wish?” A voice spoke.

Claudia turned full circle to find Octavia Davenport standing in her doorway.

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