Insatiable, Book 1 by JD Hawkins

Author:JD Hawkins [Hawkins, JD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paige Press LLC

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It’s going to be a masterpiece. Every one of my buildings is, but the super-rich producer who commissioned this particular one already owns several mansions, and gave me a free reign to do whatever I wanted. And what I wanted to do just happened to be create the best damn building the west coast has ever seen. A mansion so beautiful you feel happier just being inside it. A mansion so breathtaking it demands you become a better person. A mansion so overwhelmingly elegant you could have people take a walk through it as a therapy session. A mansion I’ve recently - and secretly - codenamed ‘Lizzie’.

Aptly, everything is falling into place nicely. I make the rounds, exchanging dirty jokes with the construction teams, and ironing out details with the decorators.

I see Luce out back by the pool, scribbling notes onto a clipboard.

“Hey,” I say, walking up to her.

“Hey yourself,” she says, writing a few more words down then looking up at me.

“’Hey yourself’? Is that a thing now?”

Luce shrugs.

“Did you know Santos’ wife is six months pregnant? We’re going to need-“

“Another foreman to come in and learn the ropes before he disappears. Already on it Jax.”

“That’s my girl.”

“Sometimes I think I’m the only one who isn’t your girl.”

“There’s still time.”

“They do say Hell lasts an eternity,” she says, with a grin. “You look tired, Jax. That rejection still playing on your mind?”

“What rejection?” I say, with an exaggerated expression of surprise.

“You know exactly who I mean!”

“Oh, the girl who was in my pool a couple of nights ago? And in my car last night?”

Luce groans, then points to the front of the mansion where she wants us to walk. “And here I was hoping you would have a revelation.”

“It’s a revelation, alright. She…” I lower my voice as we squeeze through a corridor full of builders. “She wants me to teach her the ‘ways of the flesh’.”

We emerge into the large lobby, where Luce has enough room to spin around in front of me so I can see her train-stoppingly amazed expression.

“Are you kidding?”

I shrug. “I don’t lie. I don’t need to.”

“That’s a bad deal, Jax.”

“For her? Probably.”

“That’s going to bite you in the ass. Big time.”

I smile. “We haven’t got to the ass-biting lesson yet. But thanks for the suggestion.”

“How many times have you been together?”

“Three, maybe four times.”

Luce gasps, spins around on her heels as if looking for a witness, then faces me again; all pointy fingers and preachy conviction.

“Firstly, that’s a long-term relationship by your standards. Secondly, she’s going to fall in love with you.”

“Come on…”

“How many times have we had that conversation? The one where you meet a woman, do-“ she gestures towards my body “whatever it is you do, and then can’t shake her off?”

“But-“

“Remember the girl who kept baking muffins and bringing them to the construction site?”

“They were good muffins.”

“Remember the one who hired a private detective?”

“Ok, that was-“

“Remember the girl who scratched her name into my car because she thought I was your wife?”

I laugh.

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