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Okay. She pressed a few kisses on to his back and he grinned.
He started up the jet ski and soon they were bouncing across the waves
and she was laughing with childish delight. From there, it was up in the air
parasailing and looking down at the small town of Sandpiper, then he
sailed them out on a small sailboat for lunch on the water. They laid in
each other s arms in the sun and lazily dozed while the boat bobbed gently
on the waves and lazily dozed. Jasper put aside the tumultuous thoughts
and relaxed with his woman. But by the time they headed in back to the
harbor it was well past three in the afternoon and he would have to get on
his way to make his flight out to DC.
I ll wait up for you, she whispered against his lips.
I won t be back until around two a.m., baby girl, Jasper said gently.
Let s see, how about I kiss you awake if you fall asleep?
She smiled and caressed his cheeks in a way that he had become so
very fond of. That sounds like a plan.
He watched her standing in the doorway of their home, waving, and as
he drove away one word stuck in his head. Theirs. He considered his home
hers. Jasper grinned as he gunned his car out of the small town and onto
the highway to Fort Jackson. He would go take care of this situation and
then when he got home, he would ask her to consider making Sandpiper
her new home with him.
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The trip to DC took a little over two hours because of bad weather. He
was already pissed off. Knowing he would get home later than he
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expected did not make his mood any better. He sat outside the apartment
of Ned Lazarus and watch him shuttle one girl out and another in a few
hours later. Jasper rolled his eyes in disgust. The guy thought he still had
the playboy personality of a man who went to the NBA. It was well after
eleven o clock at night before the last woman left and he was able to
cross the street to the apartment building. The streets were surprisingly
and Jasper thanked the heavens for his good luck.
While he was heading to the door, he saw Ned leaving and called out,
Hey!
Ned turned and his eyes widened when he saw Jasper and then went to
small slits just before a nasty smiled curled his lips. He stopped and with a
conceited attitude said, Well, if it isn t white boy. I guess Jasmine turned
Carolynn on to the other white meat now, huh?
I think if I was purple with pink polka dots Carolynn would of picked
me over you, Jasper replied.
You got some nerve coming to my house, big man.
Jasper spread his arms wide. I am not at your house. We are on the
sidewalk, talking. And what I have to say will be simple stay away from
Carolynn. That little incident at her place has been recorded and
documented. The threats on her phone same thing. You come within a
hair s breadth of her and you are going down.
Look at you, coming with the law. You can t prove anything. Ned
laughed. Typical. You want to protect her, you should come with
something more than threats.
Jasper s voice became deadly. This isn t a threat. I am saying that I
will beat you to within an inch of life if you come near her. Men like you,
with all the swagger to compensate for lack of depth and you think
banging every pussy that comes your way makes you a man. Well, men
like you end up living in some crappy apartment trying to relive whatever
promise you had in the bottom of a bottle. I know your type. Come try to
hit me, big man, and see where it gets you. She was right to leave you and
all those other women will know what a sorry piece of filth you are. Stay
away, Ned, or I will make you.
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He could see the anger building in Ned and that was exactly what he
wanted. The tall, black man swung on him and Jasper ducked his attempts
easily and planted his fist in his solar plexus. Ned swung again and he
connected with Jasper s face as he was turning, glancing him on the jaw.
Jasper moved quickly and kicked him behind the knee, bringing him down
to the cement pavement. He raised his knee and got Ned under the chin
and watched with pleasure as Ned fell back. He was on him in an instant,
giving the man no room for escape, and punched him not once but twice in
the face.
Now, I will tell you again take her scent out of your nose or I will
be back, Jasper said.
Ned wiped the blood from his lips. The cops are going to love this.
Beating me up on the sidewalk.
What cops? I don t see anyone around. But I can drive you to the
nearest police station and while you are in there filing out a report, I will
be giving them the pictures of her place, the evidence of your fingerprints
we collected and oh yeah, the recorded voicemails. You can sign a charge
against me while you are sitting in a jail cell.
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