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commute and tired of missing so much with Carmen. So a few years ago, I started an online agency that brings together models, photographers, modeling studios, and basically anything else to do with modeling.”
    “Is it Internet only?”
    “No, but it’s getting there. I haven’t quite managed it yet. With video chats of all kinds to not only talk to people but see them as well, it can almost feel like being there.” Once she had her assistant completely trained, she could let her do the necessary traveling, or at least most of it, especially the international traveling.
    “How much do you travel?”
    “Not often. I traveled a lot when I first started the company, but her father and I shared custody, so I was able to plan my trips during his time with her. He recently remarried and moved to Europe so Carmen and I came here.”
    “I’m glad you did.”
    “So am I,” she said slowly. But that didn’t mean she was ready to immediately jump into a relationship the moment she returned to Marietta. Not with Jack, not with anyone.
    But Jack was sure tempting her.

Chapter Four
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    “D o you want to come in?” Maya asked Jack when he walked her to the door.
    He glanced at his watch. “Sure, but I can’t stay long. I told Gina I wouldn’t be late.”
    “Carmen is staying with my sister tonight.”
    Idle conversation, he wondered, shooting her a speculative glance. Or something else?
    “I didn’t mean that the way it sounded,” she said, flustered.
    He couldn’t resist teasing her. “How did it sound?”
    Now she looked annoyed. “You know very well what it sounded like. Like I was dropping the biggest, most obvious hint possible. I said the first thing that came into my head. I wasn’t inviting you to jump into bed with me.”
    Jack laughed. “I didn’t think you were. Which is too bad.” Really too bad, he thought. Maya was without doubt one of the most beautiful women he’d ever known. Long, dark hair, classic features, a perfect complexion. Gray eyes, rimmed with a darker gray, unusual and compelling. An angel she wasn’t, though. More like a siren. “You blew me away when I first saw you tonight.”
    Her lips curved. “Good. I meant to.”
    “You always did have a wicked streak.” As a teenager, Maya had been pretty, but now she was downright dangerous.
    “What would you have done if I had been dropping a hint? If I invited you to stay?”
    He didn’t have to think about that. “I’d have taken your hand and walked with you to your bedroom and—” he put his hands on her waist and gently pulled her closer—“I’d have done this.” He kissed her. Slowly. Reacquainted himself with that luscious mouth. Her beautiful mouth he’d been thinking about since he saw her up close for the first time in years.
    Maya moved closer. Instant heat flared between them. He took the kiss deeper, until he drowned in her taste, her scent, the feel of her arms around his neck and her soft curves pressing against his chest.
    Jack broke the kiss, but he couldn’t make himself move away. Maya wasn’t unaffected either. Her breathing was fast and her lips were parted, wet from his kiss. As he stared at her, she ran her tongue delicately around her lips, making them, if possible, even more inviting.
    “Damn.” He kissed her again, harder, more briefly, and resolutely set her away from him. “I have to go home.”
    “Yes. You do.”
    “I want to kiss you again.”
    “I know. I want to kiss you again too.”
    He was tempted. Oh, man, was he tempted. Instead, he turned around and walked to her door. Once there, he turned back and looked at Maya, standing where he’d left her. “I’ll call you. Soon.”
    “Good.” Her smile could have seduced a dead man, and Jack was far from dead.
    He left before he said to hell with it and devoured her.
    *
    Though Maya tried not to work on the weekends, she couldn’t always swing it. Saturday morning found her tying up loose ends. She had just finished a video chat