Jaxon was disappointed that she left the balcony and went back to her room. He extricated an extremely clingy Lauren from his body. "Lauren, what are you doing here?" He growled. 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 was disappointed.

He had known Lauren since his college days. They had 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...