It disappointed Jaxon that she left the balcony and went back to her room. He extricated an extremely clingy Lauren away from his body.
“Lauren, what are you doing here?” he growled impatiently. When she had flung herself all over him, he didn’t protest. He wanted to see Carmella’s reaction. Did she want him the way he wanted her? But when she didn’t react at all and simply went inside and shut her door, he felt frustrated.
He had known Lauren since his college days, having studied together at ESMOD in Paris and graduated together. Although he had never liked her, she, however, had always nurtured a crush on him since their first term at college. He had never encouraged her, but after so many years, when she suddenly saw him at the conference, she followed him back to his hotel. Being th
