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“They’re where?” Lucy asked, like for the fourth time, since I sat at the lake talking to her.

I ran here as if they were chasing me. I didn’t think that I could run so fast. Then again, I used to run when dad was chasing me, he said that I needed to do some sport. He was the active one in the family for sure.

“And you’re on the phone talking to me. Your Nan will eat them up alive.”

“You mean Judy.”

She laughed, “Oh my, they say age makes some people grow up.”

We both laughed in unison at the idea that my Nan just wasn’t one of them.

“Seriously, why are you talking to me? You need to get your ass back home, and find out what they want?No, forget that, they want to be quarantined with you.”

I choked. “I need to keep running in the opposite direction!”

“Kiara, they came to see you. Damn, what I would do to be quarantined with one, let alone two of my ex-men, and you have the whole getting to know each other and all that kind of thing. I mean this is just what you need, yeah this is exactly what you need to make you feel…”

“Better?”

I slumped on a branch and hurt my butt doing so, she was right I was too sad. Scared to come home, in case in some wrapped up way, it meant that I stopped missing him. Scared of graduating and not doing with my life. Just plain old scared. No one had ever been with me, and there were not one SEAL, but two. Yet, here I was running away from them, I needed to grow a bone. The same one that I’d grown when I wrote to them.

“Hey!” I heard a voice call out from behind me.

“I think that one of them is here.”

“Oh you lucky girl,” Lucy said before hanging up, and then I turned around to face Adonis, whose blue eyes shone as he moved closer towards me. I realized then that he was hot. A lot hotter than his photo. He towered over me at six foot two and his athletic frame made me feel as if he was way out of my league.

But that smile, the shiny white teeth that belonged on the cover of a magazine, and those sky-blue eyes that glistened in the light. He was that way, because I was in front of him, and no more did I fear him, but welcomed him with open arms.

“What the hell? You guys are here?”

He nodded. “Come here girl, give me some love. You don’t know how long we’ve wanted to see you.”

I smiled as he lifted me up, as I struggled to reach the top of his shoulders. He was tall. Really tall. He made me feel so short with my five foot, six-inch frame.

I smelled his cologne, and I felt as if I could just stay in this position forever, until he squeezed me just a little too tight and I screamed.

“Put me down!”

He laughed, “Sorry, I got a bit carried away. Four months and we finally meet.”

It was then that it hit me, the reason why I came to hide. He was perfect in every way and I felt so subconscious as he put me down and then smiled at me once again, but I shifted my eyes away from his gaze.

“You’re everything I imagined and more.”

He put a smile on my face. The same way that he did when he first replied to my email. I decided I had to stop being a chicken and face the fact, the guys spent quarantine with me, they must have thought of our messages as something special, just how I’d done for the past few weeks. There was one thing that bugged me, how the hell did Chaz know Adonis?

* * *

I was just headingto the kitchen, to help prepare for later this afternoon, when I heard my name being called out, by a voice that I didn’t recognize. I turned to face, Chaz, but he was with another guy. His dark eyes shone as I approached him. His wide shoulders, were greeted by a guy on the other side of him.

“Hey,” I smiled, trying to think of something else to say, but I was stuck. Speechless. He was at least six foot two and I felt like a small, quivering mouse as I approached him.

“You’re working?”

I nodded.

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