Jack_A Cryptocurrency Billionaire Romance by Sara Forbes

Author:Sara Forbes [Forbes, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sara Forbes
Published: 2018-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

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I’M ASLEEP, OR must be, when something brushes my cracked lips. My first thought is wild animal! I jolt awake, slapping my hand out in self-defense. My vision clears. It’s just Jack. He’s running his thumb over my lips. I taste salt from his thumb tip.

Relief turns quickly to a different kind of panic. Awareness shoots straight from my lips to my groin. Just as I’m about to let my tongue make contact with his thumb, he thrusts something into my hand, something cylindrical and cold.

Cold?

I peer down at it then scramble up. “Water! How did you?”

Jack’s grinning. “I found a spring. Of the most delicious, cool, bubbling water in the whole wide world.”

I let out a howl of joy and unscrew the cap, gulping down the contents. This water is the sweetest, heavenliest liquid I have ever tasted. Of course, I end up spluttering, water dripping down my chin, but I don’t care.

He’s laughing. “It was worth fighting the snake to see the expression your face.”

“The snake?” I pull the bottle from my lips. “What snake, Jack?”

“That’s what took me so long. There was a snake in the undergrowth. I don’t know if it was dangerous. We can Google it.”

“Jack!” I clutch the sides of my head. “You don’t mess with snakes. You certainly don’t fight them. There are lethal ones in this region. What did it look like?” I did my homework on dangerous animals on Caribbean islands before I came here. Call me paranoid.

He shrugs. “Khaki and black, typical snakeskin. You know Scarlett’s designer bag? Just like that.”

“What shape of head did it have?”

“Mean looking. Triangular.”

“Oh my god.” I’m pacing in a circle. “It’s a fer-de-lance. I bet it was.”

“Right, well, he’s there in the forest.”

“Do you know how deadly those things are? Are you sure you didn’t get bitten? Take off your boots so I can see.”

“Really, I didn’t get bitten. I would know.”

“Take them off,” I order, channeling my mom’s bossy nurse voice because he sounds way too relaxed about this. I must do it convincingly—he slumps down on the sand and pulls off his boots and socks without further ado.

I inspect his feet. He has nicely shaped feet, and I see no red blotch that would herald his imminent death.

“Any other parts of me you’d like to inspect?”

I glare at him. “This is no laughing matter, Jack. Remember Bear Gryllis?”

“He got bitten?”

“No, his director did. Foot blew up to size of a melon and he had to have extensive grafts done.” I grip his shoulders. “Had you been bitten, we’d have no access to antivenom or any form of medical care and you’d be dead. Dead!”

“But I didn’t,” he reasons calmly. “And as you can see, I’m OK.”

“Can you please just not risk your life, like, for the next forty-eight hours? Can you do that?”

He leans closer. His scent is a heady mix of sunscreen, sea salt, and masculinity. “Just the next forty-eight hours?” he asks.

“Yes,” I breathe. “After that, you can die whatever way suits you best.

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