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Josephine turned and looked up at me. “What’s going to happen when this is over?”
“What do you mean?”
She shrugged. “You’re a bounty hunter. Are you going to drop me off and leave? Go back to your job?”
I watched the emotions travel over her face as we continued down the trail. “I have to work.”
She nodded.
“Or do you mean will I ditch you once we’re back home?” I chuckled. “I don’t think you understand.”
Stopping, she looked up at me. I moved a piece of ebony hair off her forehead. “What do I not understand?”
I shifted positions on my feet, feeling nervous to admit everything out loud. “If we’re bound. If we’re soulmates, there is no getting away from one another. God will put us together no matter what.” I swept my fingertips along her bottom lip. “There is no getting rid of me, even when you want to, and trust me, you will want to eventually.”
She smirked. “Doubt it.”
We continued down it until the trail tapered off into a clearing. I gently guided Josephine behind me, stepping into the clearing, where a giant waterfall sat like something out of a storybook.
“Wow, that’s beautiful,” she whispered.
She rushed over, slipping out of my grip and into the water while kicking off her shoes and clothes.
My body heated at the sight of her in nothing but a pair of panties. Was she trying to kill me?
“Josephine,” I warned her, watching her dive into the water and slip underneath it.
The roar of the waterfall drowned out my hearing. I dropped my bag and walked toward the water’s edge.
Josephine peeked up several yards away. “Come back here.”
She shook her head. “Why don’t you take those clothes off and join me?”
Dear God, please make this woman do as I say for one second.
“We don’t know what’s in that water, Josephine.”
She backstroked away from me, staring up at the sky and smiling. “You can call me Josie if you want.”
My fingers tightened into fists at my sides. “I want you to come out of there.”
Josephine chuckled. “I want a lot of things,” she said. “Like you to take those clothes off and join me.”
“Get. Out.”
“Come. In,” she taunted, luring me with her finger.
Irritation and excitement flooded me. It’d been so long since I did something because I wanted. Until I met her, there hadn’t been a time I indulged in anything fun. Not since my wife. I had planned to spend eternity in my own personal hell, punishing myself for Deidamia’s sins.
Grabbing the edge of my T-shirt, I jerked it off and kicked off the sweats. Josephine clapped her hands above her head as I dove into the water.
The silence underneath the waterfall calmed my racing heart. Even when I noticed her legs and came up inches from her face, my body was calm.
Josephine blinked slowly, droplets rushing down her face and neck.
My fingers twitched in anticipation of touching her.
She pressed her chest against mine, and heat swarmed me.
