Sex On The Beach: Bad Boys Club Romance #1
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I broke down completely, but I was still able to speak. “Yes… yes… yes.”
He stood up and kissed me, held me in his strong arms… and everything was made whole again.
He brushed back strands of hair from my face as he gazed at me, his eyes filled with love.
I held out the key. “…would you?...”
He separated the necklace clasp and looped it around my neck.
I looked down at it, then smiled back up at him.
“And because I’m superstitious, I need to give you something else,” he said as he pulled a box out of his pocket. I gasped as he opened it, revealing the biggest diamond I’d ever seen.
He removed the ring from the case and slipped it onto my finger. I was mesmerized as it sparkled and glinted in the firelight.
“I love you,” he murmured as he caressed my face.
“I love you, too,” I whispered, and we kissed by the firelight, in front of a castle, under the stars of a Hawaiian sky.
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THREE YEARS LATER
We got married two months after he proposed. It was a small affair on Ke’e Beach, with maybe twenty people in attendance. Aisha and my friends from Wichita were there. So were my parents. Once my father found out exactly what Ian did for a living, he was a lot more amenable to my ‘seeing’ this particular ‘bum.’
Vic and Bryce came, too – and Vic would not shut up about how happy he was for both of us. “You guys are perfect together – perfect. And by the way, I totally helped build that sand castle. Three hours on that thing! I mean, in a way, you could totally say I helped make this day possible. You mind if I Instagram this?”
I told him he could not, and he gracefully complied.
A month after the wedding, the IPO went off without a hitch – the biggest American-based IPO since Facebook.
“How does it feel to be married to an overnight billionaire?” someone asked me at the celebration party when the stock market closed.
I told them I didn’t know – and I never found out, because our life continued mostly the same as it did from the moment Ian proposed.
In the days afterward, we found a little ‘shack’ on the beach – though at seven bedrooms, it was a good bit more than a shack. Ian convinced me we’d need plenty of room for visitors, which certainly proved true. I’m more popular with Aisha and my Wichita friends than ever.
Ian ‘commuted’ back and forth between San Francisco and Hawaii – over Skype when he could, and by a private chartered jet when he couldn’t.
And he continued to teach me to surf – just on the sapphire waves of Kauai, with sunsets that put LA’s to shame.
One sunny afternoon three years later, I thought about everything I had to be thankful for as I sat on the beach building a sand castle. From my failed engagement to Rick, to that dropped canister of Sex Wax, to that night attack on the boardwalk of Venice… everything had come together as though it was meant to be. And I was grateful every day – even for the pain and tears, because they’d led me to a life happier than I ever could have imagined.
As I sat on the shore, Ian emerged from the waves, his impossibly gorgeous body dripping with water. He made his way over to me, grinning as he carried his surfboard under his arm.
He gave me a passionate, saltwatery kiss, then sat down laughing as he held out his arms – ever the proud papa as our eleven-month-old son struggled to his feet in the sand.
We both cheered and clapped as he took a few halting steps, then a few more, until he fell into Ian’s hands and was swept up into a hug.
We officially named our little boy James, after Ian’s late father…
…but everybody calls him Jimi.
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Lou's vicious scheme has succeeded in tearing Fiona and Jack apart. Even worse, now Fiona has no hope of ever discovering who murdered her cousin. That is, until a new development occurs - and suddenly she's thrust back into the gang war in Richards. Old allies from the past step forward to lend their help, and Fiona once again has a fighting chance to take down Lou... bring her cousin's murderer to justice... and maybe, just maybe, salvage her passionate love affair with Jack.
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Sex On The Beach - A Bad Boys Club Romance #1
Copyright 2016 Olivia Thorne
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Edition: December 2016