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ability to say all the right things at just the perfect moment.
    Not one to linger, Jaxon moved away from me and toward a car just as manly as he was. The black paint shined under the midday sun and I knew it was a classic, I just wasn’t sure the make or model.
    Jaxon popped the trunk and tossed my bags in before unlocking the passenger door. He held the door open, and I paused inches away from the warmth of his hard chest.
    “Rental cars are getting fancy these days,” I said, running my hand along the door frame.
    He laughed. “It’s not a rental.”
    “Trying to overcompensate for something else?” I asked and glanced down at his crotch then back to him.
    “Why don’t you tell me? Or do you need a reminder?”
    Oh my God yes. He could remind me all day and all night if he wanted to.
    His finger brushed my chin then gave it a slight push. “Didn’t want you to embarrass yourself by drooling.”
    “What? I’m not.” I needed to change the subject and I needed to change it fast. “You drove here?” I asked.
    A smile tugged at the corner of his luscious lips and he arched a dark eyebrow in amusement.
    “I don’t mean the airport. Michigan . You drove to Michigan?”
    He ran a hand over the back of his neck then looked at me with squinted eyes. “I live here.”
    Shock blasted me in the face. This had been the most information I knew about him in two years and I wanted more. Needed more. He never called. Never sent an email or a text or anything to let me know he was alive. Granted what we had wasn’t anything more than a single night but still.
    “For how long?” I demanded.
    “Almost a year.”
    “A year!”
    “Almost.”
    “Does Dee and Cole know?”
    I asked Dee about Jaxon every few weeks, hoping for an update. Some sort of insight to what he’d been doing with his life. Where he’d been. She never had anything new to share. She couldn’t know. She would have told me the minute she found out.
    “Yes,” Jaxon said, and if the door wasn’t there holding me up I would’ve fallen to my ass.
    My best friend had been lying to me. We told each other everything. I knew more about her sex life than her soon-to-be husband probably did. I knew she made-out with her sister’s ex-boyfriend in high school and how she cried every time she watched Cinderella because she felt bad for the evil step sisters. It’s not their fault they were misguided she finally admitted.
    Yet the one thing I desperately wanted to know, and she had the information to, she kept from me, her best friend. What the hell was that about?
    “You getting in or what?”
    “You’re the one still standing here,” I threw back.
    With a smirk he went over to his side and I slid into the black leather passenger seat. I wondered how many girls he fucked in this seat. If he thought of me while he brought them to the brink just as I thought of him every time I’d been with a guy since our night together.
    “So what brought you to Michigan?” I asked as Jaxon got in and put the key in the ignition. The engine roared to life and he revved it a few times before pulling out of the space.
    He gave me a quick glance and then shrugged. “Cole liked it. Thought what the hell. Needed a change of scenery.”
    “Just like that?” It seemed too simple. I wasn’t exactly happy where I was, but I couldn’t just up and leave. Dee had been trying to persuade me to relocate to Michigan from the day she landed here, but I didn’t want to intrude on the new life she was starting.
    “Yup, just like that.”
    I stared at Jaxon, taking in his perfect profile and when he turned and caught my eye, I smiled and let myself be honest. “I envy you.”
    He scoffed. “Me?”
    “Yeah you. I would never have the balls to just change scenery.”
    “It’s not about balls.”
    “Then what’s it about?”
    “I don’t like being in the same place for too long.”
    “Why not?” I asked, fully aware that there was a reason for his mystery and dying to