The Hawthorne Legacy

Jameson’s pants were still in place, but the top button had been undone.

Okay, now
I
need to focus

That’s not the point.
The point is,
Jameson Hawthorne is in the hot tub

They’re
my
knuckleheaded, notably less charismatic brothers

Because I saw that picture of the two of you, and my psychic senses are telling me that you have communed with those abs.”

“Heiress, you wound me.”

I came to see you,” Jameson told me.
“Every day

“You could tell me what Jameson Hawthorne’s abs feel like,”

She is one of us.
We protect her.

I’ll always protect you
, he’d sworn.
But this… us… It can’t happen, Avery.

“He doesn’t want me,” I told Max. “Not really. He wants the mystery. He wants to keep me close until he can use me. I’m a part of the puzzle to him.”
“But…,” Max prompted, “would you like to be used by him?”