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plans for summer vacation?”
    Why all the small talk? she wondered. Didn’t he realize how hard it was for her to stand here making polite conversation with him? To resist stripping off his clothes and begging him, once again, to take it all the way? “Just Vegas,” she said, referring to her upcoming trip to visit her friends and support the opening of Rhys and Max’s new magic show. Jamie would be attending as well.
    She normally had more planned during the summer. Liked to get out of northern California and explore the rest of the country. But this time, she was looking forward to staying close to home. God, wasn’t she becoming the domesticated one?
    “So, about why you came…”
    “I came to say a goodbye, of sorts.”
    Her heart stuttered, but hopefully she managed to keep her face blank. “Goodbye?”
    “That’s right. I’m not coming back next semester.”
    “You’ve taken another teaching job?”
    “No,” he said, slipping his hands in his pockets. “Teaching has been wonderful, but I always planned to return to Whitcomb Enterprises in Los Angeles. My father will be retiring soon. Plus, the company’s expanding into airplane parts manufacturing plants and my environmental science expertise is going to be critical in that expansion.”
    “I see,” she said, looking down at her hands, folded on her desk. “So, when are you leaving?”
    “I leave tomorrow in order to start the ball rolling, but I won’t officially be in the swing of things for a few weeks.”
    He left tomorrow.
    She hadn’t seen him much since they’d broken up. Only here and there. And she’d been so angry before. It had only been a few weeks since they’d been able to be civil to one another again. Now he’d be gone from her life. Forever?
    She was more shaken by the news than she wanted to admit.
    “Are you okay?” he asked.
    She swallowed, forcing a shrug. “Of course. I wish you well, Jamie.”
    “I may be leaving the university, but we’ve still got Vegas.”
    “Of course.”
    “I’m attending a bachelor party while I’m there—one of my college friends is marrying my sister—and then I’ll be at the wedding.”
    “That’s right. Brianne. And Eric?”
    His jaw clenched. “That’s right.”
    “So the wedding is in L.A.?”
    “Coronado Island.”
    The well-to-do place where he grew up. Lucy had been there once. It was a beautiful beach resort town that managed to seem casual even as it reeked of old money.
    “Yes, well…I’m sure it’ll be a grand affair.” She rose from her seated position behind the desk, and to prove to him and to herself how over him she was, she came around to where he was and reached out to give him a hug. “See you in Vegas.”
    He wrapped his arms around her waist.
    His shoulders were as strong and broad and taut as she remembered them. His scent as woodsy. His breath as soft on her neck as he held her tight, returning the embrace. Tingles shot through her stomach. God, what this man could do to her. Sexual chemistry had never been their problem.
    A little overwhelmed by being in bodily contact with a man her body still seemed to desire, she pulled back, intent on ending the hug. But when she tried to pull away, Jamie kept his arms around her waist.
    “Do you need something else?” she asked, now eye-to-eye with him.
    “Yes.”
    For a moment, time hung suspended, and it seemed as though Lucy could see every fleck of gold in Jamie’s eyes, could feel every pound of his heartbeat, could breathe in the essence of him…and then he cupped her face and kissed her, even as he wound the hair at the sides of her face up in his fingers and tugged. Lucy felt herself melt into him and a moan escaped her lips. As they parted of their own free will, he slipped his tongue inside her mouth and sought hers out.
    God, it was so good to kiss him. To have him touch her again. Lucy could hardly breathe. She was dizzy and she felt like she might very well black out. Her panties were soaked