Playing Jasper by Ginger Ring

Author:Ginger Ring [Ring, Ginger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-06-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Jackie

Ahead was something out of a fairytale. Jasper had rented a private yacht—one of the vintage boats built back in the late 1880s. A steward stood on the deck in front holding a tray with two glasses of champagne.

“Jasper.” That’s all she could manage to say as he guided her onto the boat with a hand to her lower back, and they both took a glass. The boat was big enough to fit fifty or more people, but it was all for them. One table sat in the middle toward the front deck. The shiny gold silverware reflected the light from the candles atop the crisp white tablecloth. “This is too much.”

“Nothing’s too much for you.” Jasper took her hand and led her to the front of the ship as the crew pushed off from the dock and started their cruise. “You see those flowers on the table?”

“Purple roses. Yes. They were on the table the other night.”

“The night I missed our date. I’m really sorry about that.”

“You’re forgiven. You had a good excuse.” She turned toward the flowers again. “I’ve never seen such beautiful flowers before.”

“Do you know what they stand for?” Maddy had told her, but she wanted to hear what he had to say.

“Love at first sight.” Jasper touched the edge of his glass to hers and took a drink. “When I saw you last fall, I thought you were the most intriguing and beautiful woman I’d ever met, and I know a lot of smart and good-looking chicks. Madison, Valentina, Stephanie.”

It was hard not to giggle, but she did. It was overwhelming. “Well, thank you. You’re not so bad yourself, but I hardly think it was love at first sight, since I turned you down and we hadn’t seen each other since.”

“That’s true, but all winter long, things have been off for me. It’s like there’s been something missing in my life. Then you came along again, and I knew what it was.”

“Me?” It was too good to believe, but he nodded yes. “Why me?”

“Who knows?” He chuckled and glanced toward the water as a wooden-hulled boat passed by. “Do we ever really know what it is about a person that makes us love them or hate them? It’s just a feeling. One that starts as friendship and grows into a relationship. Something that goes on endlessly, just like the swirls of the jewelry I gave you.”

“I never pegged you as such a romantic, but it just seems too early to be talking about love and forever when we haven’t known each other that long.” It may be too early, but he was again chipping away at her guarded heart with a jackhammer.

“Not for me. In this family, relationships are for a lifetime. That’s why I’m being so up front with you. Dating outside the mob is frowned upon. We value loyalty and trust over everything. Wives and girlfriends hear things and see things that they shouldn’t; we have to know that they’re in it for the long haul.

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