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“Daddy, I smell something’s burning,” Clary called out from the dining table.“Shit!”“You’re not supposed to say that,” Clary chanted.“Sorry, sweetheart.” Lately, I’m not myself. He rushed to the convection to turn it off. As far as he could remember, he set the timer just right and wasn’t expecting to screw up their dinner. Besides, it never happened to him before. Bryce baked when he was happy—when he felt sad—when he was frustrated over something, and even when he was pissed off or in rage. What he couldn’t remember was burning anything. He could bake even with his eyes closed.When he looked at the heat, he sighed exasperatingly. It seemed that Charleigh’s departure had distracted him more than he would like to admit.“What’s the smell?”“Hey, Grandpa!” Bryce watched Clary jump off the chair and squeeze his grandpa Matthew into a hug.“Hey. How’s your fishing?” He pulled out the glassware with supposed to be their dinner—vegetable lasagna, Clary’s favorite. He placed it on the
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For the last few days, she’d cursed herself every time she was tempted to call and say hello to Bryce. Last night, she finally found a missed call from him. In an instant, she felt her heart speed up in excitement to hear his voice.Right now, she was torn between returning the call and ignoring him because she knew herself too well. Once she heard him calling her name, she would forget her plans, making her feel lost in lust. And not only that—she wanted more and might risk everything she worked hard for just to fill the void and whatever unsatisfied needs she felt deep inside.This fierce anticipation had to wait. If she meant something to Bryce as he meant to her, then there was a right time for it.Charleigh was already crossing her arms over her chest, pissed at her brother when he ignored her request.Tripp didn’t seem to care about her outburst. He was still relaxed on his desk, aside from his brown eyes glaring back at her.“Why don’t you wanna consider my point?”“It’s final,
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Bryce was on edge when Dax suddenly appeared on his doorstep, asking for a day to spend some time with his daughter. It was unusual because he usually asked his assistant to pick up Clary after texting him. They might not be on good terms, but they exchanged pleasantries when Clary was around just like civil people did. His little girl did not have to see whatever disagreement they both had. At least, all he could do was be a good father since Clary didn’t have a mother to teach her good manners. Bryce did his best to be polite despite how Dax treated him poorly these past years.Once he was done packing the things into Clary’s backpack for a sleepover, he hugged her tightly and kissed the top of her head. “Be a good girl, okay?”Clary squeezed him back. “I love you, Daddy.”Bryce couldn’t let go of her just yet without inhaling her sweet baby scent. For him, she was still the little girl wrapped in a yellow blanket seven years ago. Clary was always his little angel. His chest tighte
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“How long do you want me for?” She lifted one eyebrow.Her bluntness shocked him.The silence stretched between them. Bryce had not given her the answer. Was he having a second thought? What was stopping him?So, she picked up the piping bag, took a look at it, and squeezed the bag a little bit strong, causing the frosting to spill onto Bryce’s chin.He groaned in surprise. “What the—!” He narrowed his eyes at her when he saw the glint of mischief in her eyes. “Charleigh, what are you doing?”Charleigh grimaced apologetically. “Sorry. I don’t know how to use this thing. Let me clean it for you.” She tiptoed. Bryce was way taller than her five feet and four inches height. Then she cupped his face, darted her tongue out, and licked his chin clean. “Wait, just a little left over here.” She felt the hardening of his jaw against her palm, and that encouraged her to suck and lick it clean. “Done. It tastes like cardamom. I like it.” Her voice turned husky and sultry.When the tension earlie
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*Flashbacks ahead“Oh, God! I don’t think I can take you anymore.” Her legs were like wantons over his shoulders, but it didn’t stop Bryce from pounding her hard and fast as she demanded what she wanted moments before.“You can, Charleigh. Take me, all of me. Unlock those emotions you kept hidden for years!” His heart was thundering in his chest. His muscles were tense, and they were slick with their own sweat. His jaw clenched, driven to give what he could and promise to never deny her needs and wants.“It has nothing to do with my emotions,” breathing hard, she countered. She felt so good. Her orgasm was building again, and her body was ready to engulf.“It does.” He paused from fucking her hard. He was catching his breath as he glared down at her. He knew she was holding something. As much as he wanted to come right now, Charleigh’s feelings should come first, and he needed to know where he stood after they fucked each other. “Everything we do has always had something to do with
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Charleigh shoved the remaining cake into her mouth, stood up, and placed the empty mug in the sink. She walked away, climbed upstairs, and left Bryce thinking in his kitchen.When she came back, she was already wearing her clothes from yesterday. “Leaving already?” She found Bryce at the end of the stairs, resting his arm over the newel post. “I have to get ready for my date.”“Are you still staying at the Inn?”“Yes.” She snaked her arms around his thick neck and stared at his blue eyes—they were mesmerizing that she could spend several hours just glancing at his gorgeous face, and she wouldn’t get bored.“Can I at least send you there?”“I have my car.”His thick brows squished together. “Wait a minute. You drove all the way here?”“For you, yeah. I did.” That got her a deep and passionate kiss making her heart pump faster. “I’ll do it over again if I got to have you like last night.”“Jesus, Charleigh. Do you have any idea how much you make me happy?” he said between hard breaths
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Bryce was living his moment. His life seemed back to normal—better than normal if he was to assess it, and he felt great. Right now, heat flooded down his spine in excitement for their official first date. Fireworks ignited under his skin as he flirted back through a text while watching his child playing with Lotus.“Hey, sweetheart, be careful. Don’t go near the water!” he yelled at Clary as he noticed her running toward the shore.“Okay, Daddy!”He read another text coming from Charleigh. When was the last time he flirted with another woman? He couldn’t remember. He laughed at their innuendos. He felt so good to forget the stress once in a while and just live life in the present.“I know you’re thinking the same thing, woman.” He chuckled.“Clary.” He was quicker on his feet to scan around the area where he had last seen her. Then all of a sudden, his world quaked around him. He never saw it coming. No one did. His life shifted into a domino effect right before his eyes.“Clary?”
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Instantly, he stilled to the voice just thundered in the entire floor. Fuck! Everyone around the emergency room yelped and gasped in shock. Then it went silent, except for the constant ear-splitting beeps and alarms of the machines, he didn’t realize it had been there before.Bryce gathered all his strength to stand up and face the demon from his nightmare. “W-with the doc—”Before he could finish his words, Dax’s fist connected with his jaw. Bryce’s head snapped to the left he thought his world spun around him. He felt his ass hitting the floor with a thud. Everyone let out another gasp. The pain from the punch wasn’t even close to the pain he felt for Clary.“Give me a single fucking reason not to take her away from you, Chase!”He couldn’t answer. All he could do was stare in horror at Dax.“Funny and pathetic. You can’t even open your mouth, can you now, huh, Chase? Because the moment you let her out of your sight, you lost that fucking right.”“It was—” Bryce could taste his own
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Having a hard time processing the gratitude, Ari drank her wine in a gulp.“I don’t deserve the kindness you give to me,” Tripp continued. “What I deserve is resentment from you, Ari. Please, tell me if I am doing this wrong. If you want me to change. I’ll do everything for you, for us.”“You talk too much.” She knelt, cupped his head, and kissed him hard, wet, and wild. Her tongue was forcefully seeking an entrance.When Tripp didn’t give it to her, she tugged his bottom lip until he opened for her with a groan. She knew Tripp wanted to say more, but she wanted him to stop—he’d been trying too hard for them to make this work, and he deserved a reward of some sort.And she had to stop him because if she didn’t, she might end up blurting out the words at the tip of her tongue right now.She was the kind of woman who thought before she put it into action, but with Tripp, her mind was busy thinking how good she would feel underneath him, on top of him, against him, behind him, in all ang
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“Don’t you wanna join me?” Her eyes lingered on the growing dark brown stubble of her husband. After they made love three days ago, she couldn’t help herself not to feel it against her fingertips. When she told him she liked the roughness against her skin, he kept it unshaven.He was an eye candy in his shorts. He might have felt Ari staring at him. His strong jaw locked hard, became more prominent from her angle. His mouth was pressed in a determined line as he chopped the bell pepper expertly like a chef.She knew Tripp used to control even when they made love. He liked to dominate and was always successful with little to no effort. Was there a time that Tripp had ever lost his control? She didn’t have to know for as long as he would lose control of her. She didn’t mind at all.“Are you just gonna stare at me?” His brow arched, reaching his hairline. His smile was meaningful—as if he just read her thoughts. “I thought you wanted to go to the dock.”“I’m going. Are you sure you don’t
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“Thank me later.” Charleigh kissed her on the cheek. “Open your trunk.”Tripp left to take the things he brought with Charleigh. When he came back with the duffel, Ari was already in the car. Once he was done, he went to the passenger’s seat.Ari’s hands were on the steering wheel as if she was about to say something but held the thought. Her emotion was making her weep, and she did not want to cry like an idiot.“You okay?” Tripp asked, still confused when Ari kept silent in her seat. “Look, if this is a bad idea, we can drive home. Forget this thing happened. I’m totally cool with it.”Ari looked at him for a few seconds before she cupped his head and kissed him like she always wanted. She drunk in the surprised gasp slipped from Tripp’s lips. His mouth opened to welcome her, and she devoured him, slipped her tongue, and tasted every corner of his mouth. His taste and coffee exploded in her tongue and she wished it would last.Tripp groaned and moaned as she sucked his bottom lip an
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“You scared the heck out of me.” Shell-shocked, she stared at Spencer with wide eyes, her palm on her chest.With the look on Spencer throwing at her, she didn’t have to be surprised—it was like everything was slowly clicking into its places. Spencer looked assertive as if she knew more than what she saw. She heard everything. She figured it out all by herself.Ari’s secret was over. Now she was in deep trouble.“Spence,” she said breathlessly, her heart still pounding.“I can’t say that I’m surprised.” She looked upset as she leaned against the locker. Her eyes filled with judgment.“I can explain.” She held Spencer’s arm.“Don’t tell me crap that this is not what it looks like, Ari because this is exactly what it looks like. Are you even planning on telling me?”“Of course, I was planning to—”“But, he told you not to tell any soul, right? Because for him, everything is just a game, a deal. You’re his pawn, and you know that. Yet you’re falling for his crap.”Her eyes widened again.
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Despite a lot of patients coming tonight from food poisoning at the birthday party going wrong, Ari was in a good mood to work long hours.The ER staff awwed with wide eyes that confused Ari before she heard a male voice behind her asking her name.“And that’s me. The Miss Arizona.” She laughed at herself before she turned around, giving the same reaction as her friends. “Wow! Where are you?” She managed to joke as she searched for the guy calling her name. She could not see anyone behind the huge bouquet of different flowers in red.The guy pushed the bouquet into her. “This is for you, miss.”Ari managed to hug the flowers, her back hitting the counter as air emptied her lungs because the bouquet weighed like twenty-five kilograms. Now she couldn’t see the face of the man. “Are you sure this is mine? There are probably twenty Arizona Sky in this town, you know.”“That’s for you, ma’am. The only Arizona Sky I am sure I know of is in Grand Canyon,” the delivery guy scoffed. “And this
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“Wow.” Ari stopped in the middle of her small dining room, scanning the surroundings as if she were brought to the five-star restaurant. “Did you ever rest?”Tripp had his way of making his marriage work even though his dinner date offer was turned down more than twice. Charleigh was at his disposal when he asked for help with the groceries.After two hours, he was cooking a simple lobster bisque, a side salad, and of course, Brice’s famous raspberry chocolate cupcakes.“Have a seat, beautiful.” He ushered her to the chair.“How did you make this possible?”“I have some help. Charleigh did me a solid.” He kissed the top of her head once she was seated.“I should change to something nice.” She suddenly felt shy with the candlelit, flower arrangement, and now that Tripp started to play jazz on his phone.“I’d rather have you naked for my dessert.” He smirked. “Your clothes are just fine. I just want to have dinner with you even though we have to spend it at home.”The words naked and de
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FuckHe was quicker on his feet, licking the juices around his mouth. “Does your dad have a key to your house?” Why did he have to ask? He didn’t know. He felt that they didn’t have privacy anywhere they went, even in her own home.“Stay here. Close the water and don’t move. Don’t make a noise,” she warned him. The panic in her voice was obvious. She quickly grabbed the towel from the rack and wrapped it around her body.She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Before she could get out of the shower, Tripp cupped her face and kissed her hard, plunging his tongue into her mouth, swirled inside, and invaded to let her taste herself.Ari squirmed as her taste flooded her tastebud. She felt the hot liquid pooling between her thighs and she had to let go of a shuddering breath to ignore the ache.“Relax. You can’t hide this look from your father, Ari.” He gave her a quick kiss on her lips one more time before he let her go.“Thanks. You’re helping me a lot. And I bet I just stroked you
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“I-I don’t need to go.”Ari stared at him in shock, her heart beating so fast that might break out from her ribcage.“Fuck!”“Yeah, fart! Are you sure you’re okay? Did you just have chest pain?” She wanted to ask if he had a history of a panic attack or if he had a heart defect. She almost died in panic.For an ER nurse, what happened in the car was nothing compared to the cases she handled in the hospital every day. She’d handle and seen worse, but in Tripp’s case, it was different. He was her husband. Now she felt it in hand when wives panicked when their husbands collapsed in front of them.Tripp wiped off the sweat from his forehead while she increased the air condition in her car.“I thought I’d die.” He chuckled out of his stupidity. Jealousy was an ugly quality, but he couldn’t help it. The fact that he had the most beautiful wife, he wanted to make sure that no one would touch her but him.“And you think it was funny?” Her voice was filled with sarcasm and a hint of sadness.H
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Around seven, he went to the cake shop to buy some coffee and pastries that Ari loved.“Tripp, come on in.” Bryce pulled the door for him. “How’re your ribs?” There was something in the way he asked—something not so like him.Tripp sensed something mischievous. “Still cracked. Can you give me two cups of coffee?” Then he paused. He knew Ari liked coffee, but he didn’t know exactly what she preferred.“She preferred black.”“Right. Thanks.”“Apple cinnamon, brioche?”“Yeah. How much?”“On the house, Tripp.”Before Tripp could argue, something caught his eye outside the shop—his wife. His heartbeat accelerated just by a simple glance. Ari hadn’t noticed his presence since he was inside, and she wasn’t alone. His teeth almost cracked when he saw who she was with. The peaches fucking dude Tinsley. He knew he was being melodramatic.He felt a grip on his shoulder that he was sure it was Bryce. “Calm down.”“That guy is getting under my skin,” he said through gritted teeth, not looking at B
