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“You did.” Blake sidled up beside his wife, his hand slipping around her waist.
“Thank you,” Leilani said, feeling a pang of envy at the happy couple.
She was happy for them, but the desire to have someone special in her life was growing. Of course, she knew it was because her mom was dying, and she had a heightened awareness she was going to be alone in life.
Soon.
Very soon.
Society would say she should be strong and happily independent. She should stay single and focus on her career. Then the right man will come along. Well, she had been doing that in between the odd boyfriend.
She had even lived with one of them for six months.
Kenneth.
He was a lovely guy, but the deeper into the relationship they got, Leilani felt bored. Something she still felt guilty about. But if she had to sit and listen to another conversation about how his tax clients hadn’t filled out their spreadsheet correctly and how all they had to do was click the little drop-down boxes, she would poke her own eyes out.
Even more shame worthy was the fact she’d used her mom’s illness to move out.
Her mom had needed more care, but Leilani could have told him the truth.
Would that really have gone down well?
You bore me to tears and there is nothing wrong with blow jobs. Most men love them.
He wasn’t the man for her. She was hardly a woman with kinky sexual needs, but was oral that big of an ask?
There was a reason she was having dreams every night about Jacob being between her legs. Then waking with her hand inside her sleep shorts.
Leilani shook her head, telling herself to stop thinking about the smoking hot man while she was working.
The three hotel group owners headed over, all of them in custom-made suits, polished shoes, and white shirts with pocket handkerchiefs.
Wow, they were gorgeous men.
Wealth and power rolled off them like they were in a crime family movie set. With their five o’clock shadows, all they had to do was slide on a few pairs of sunglasses, chew on a cigar or two, and they’d look like badass gangsters.
Leilani breathed in a hint of expensive aftershave as Hunter stopped next to her, retrieving his glass of water.
“How did we do?” he asked, shooting her a sideways smile.
“Great,” she replied too quickly, glancing up at him. “It was great.”
Lord, could she not find any more words?
“Hey, do me a favor. Can you keep the crazy girl away from me? She’s...scary.” Hunter leaned down whispering in her ear.
Leilani frowned. Then, when she glanced in the direction he was looking, Missy was waving frantically at them.
Oh no.
Leilani giggled, turning away quickly, and found herself bumping into Hunter’s arm. He steadied her by wrapping it around her.
Oh, shit. That can’t look very appropriate.
Leilani straightened, and when she lifted her eyes, they landed directly on Jacob’s.
Fire sliced through her.
