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They made love three times that night. Kait had never experienced  anything like it. Jasper was so strong that they were able to create any  position imaginable. He easily held her in his strong arms making Kait  feel wonderfully light and graceful. He was a powerful yet considerate  lover. As the clock eased past midnight and they eventually untangled  from one another, Kait did something she rarely did. She fell straight  asleep. She didn't lie awake worrying about the previous day and the day  still to come. Her mind was contentedly free from anxiety, so she just  rolled up against Jasper's broad chest, closed her eyes, and drifted  away.





Chapter 3



The sharp shrill of her alarm clock jolted Kait awake. Bleary eyed, she  groaned and sat up in bed, waiting for the world to come in to focus.  Her chest ached from the kick she'd received the previous evening. When  she'd been attacked.



Kait's eyes flew open as the memories of the night before came flooding  back. She'd been assaulted in the parking lot and then saved by Jasper.  Jasper! He was here in her apartment, in her bed. Kait hastily ran her  fingers through her hair to make herself presentable before glancing  across to the other side of her double bed. But there was no one lying  there beside her; the bed was empty. The sheets were crinkled and  disturbed, but were without an inhabitant. Perhaps he was already up and  showering.



Pulling on a nearby robe, Kait stepped lightly from her bed and opened  the door to the rest of her apartment. Dense silence greeted her.  Flicking on lights, she looked for some sign of Jasper. The bathroom was  empty, as was the main living area. Kait felt her heart plummet from  her chest down to her feet. He was gone. The man she had so willingly  given herself to, the man who had saved her, had disappeared from her  apartment before dawn. Was he ashamed about what had happened between  them? Or worse, did he have a girlfriend, or heaven forbid a wife he  needed to slink back to?



Kait suddenly felt overcome with shame. She rushed towards the shower,  needing to wash the feeling away. She furiously scrubbed at her hair and  her skin which still carried the intoxicating scent of him. The water  from the shower blended with the tears she cried as she stood there  washing. She'd been a fool to allow herself to get swept up in the  moment. Clearly, Jasper just saw her as a one night stand.



But it had been more than that for Kait. She knew it as she stepped out  in to the steam filled bathroom and bundled her hair in a towel. With  Jasper she'd had the best sex of her life. She'd climaxed several times  which was unheard of for her. Normally she was so uptight she could  never relax during sex. But with Jasper, it felt easy and natural.



Drying herself off, Kait tried to console herself that yes, perhaps it  had been a one night stand for Jasper ,but for her it had been something  more: an intense connection she was powerless to resist.



Her heart still ached as she sat on her bed, blow drying her long hair.  She wondered if he'd lingered beside her bed before leaving,  contemplating waking her. Did he have any intention of reaching out to  her again, or would he now just be gone from her life for good? The  thought of never seeing Jasper again made Kait's hands shake as they  held up the blow dryer. She had to see him again, if only to get  closure. She'd spent an amazing, life-affirming night with this man.  Maybe it meant nothing to him, but it did to her, and she felt she  deserved to at least get a goodbye from him. But all she knew was his  name, Jasper Duboix. He'd mentioned that he was coming back from the  gym, but that didn't give her much to go on.



By the time Kait's hair was dry, she'd resolved to do her best to put  Jasper out of her mind. She needed to focus on work, on getting the  promotion she'd so desperately worked for. Her feelings over Jasper  would have to wait. And why dwell on those feelings when they clearly  weren't reciprocated?                       
       
           



       





Chapter 4



Kait struggled to focus at work. Her mind kept drifting away from her  desk, back to the heat of her apartment and the night she'd shared with  Jasper. That was several days ago, and he had simply vanished. Each time  she walked over to the parking lot after work, her heart raced, not  from fear of being attacked, but from the possibility that she might  find Jasper waiting for her, his arms extended with an apology. She'd  crash against him like a wave, and they'd resume where they left off.  But he never showed up. Had he managed to move on from her so easily?



Angrily tapping her pen against her desk, Kait ignored the mounting  emails in her inbox on her computer screen. Each time she tried to  focus, she thought of him. Thought of his strong chest, of his tender  yet passionate kisses.



The sound of her office phone ringing made Kait jump. She took a few moments to collect herself before picking up.



"Good afternoon. Kait Stewart speaking." Her voice was formal and polite.



"Good afternoon, this is Kait's BFF looking for her MIA drinking buddy," came the caller's response, mimicking her tone.



"Anna!" Kait's tense expression bled out in to a warm smile.



"Hey, so you are still alive!" Anna scolded lovingly. "It's been  literally weeks since I last saw you. I was worried you'd fallen down a  hole or something."



"I'm sorry," Kait said as she played with the pen in her free hand. "Work has just been … intense lately."



Work and the man she now couldn't get out of her mind.



"Sounds like you need a night of liver abuse to clear your head!"



Kait bit her lip. Whenever Anna suggested going out for drinks, she  always made an excuse not to go. She'd say she had to work late or had  an important meeting the next day, but Anna remained a loyal and  determined friend, constantly trying to pull Kait out of her relentless  routine.



"Okay," Kait nodded, her mouth accepting the offer before her brain had  chance to catch up. She reasoned that a night out with her friend and  some cocktails could be just what she needed to help her get over  Jasper.



"Okay?" Anna was clearly shocked by her response. "Really?"



"Yes, really," Kait laughed. "I could actually use a night out."



"Man troubles?" Anna asked mischievously. Kait could just imagine her  blue eyed friend pressing herself tightly against her phone, her mouth  held in a cheeky line.



"No, no man troubles." Kait lied convincingly.



"Course not, you're all career career career. There's no men in your  life; you're basically celibate. I honestly don't know how you do it."



Kait smiled knowingly to herself. For once, she hadn't pushed a man  aside in favour of her career. She'd let a man into her apartment, into  her bed, and it had been wonderful. The smile faltered. And then he'd  gone. They'd spent a fantastic night together, but before the sun could  even rise he'd gone, slinking away beneath the cover of darkness as if  ashamed about what had happened between them.



"So I'll pick you up at eight?" Anna asked brightly.



"Yep, sounds good. I'll see you then."





Chapter 5



"Wait, sorry, what?" Anna gestured wildly with her cocktail though none  of the bright red liquid managed to escape the sleek glass.



Kait drew her shoulders together and looked down at her own drink which  she'd been nursing for the past half hour. It was her third cocktail,  and she'd yet to get that warm, pleasant buzz that normally accompanied  an intake of alcohol.



"I was …  attacked," Kait admitted sadly. As she said the words, she  realised that she hadn't told anyone about what had happened that night  in the parking lot. No one except Jasper. Just thinking about him made  her mouth go dry. She raised her glass and drank deeply from it.



"Oh my God!" Anna's eyes widened, and she pulled herself closer to her friend across the table.



"That's … that's terrifying! What happened?"



"There were three guys," Kait recalled grimly. "They followed me up to my car and jumped me."



"Did they want money?"



"I don't know," Kait swallowed stiffly. "They threatened to do … things to me."



"Urgh, what bastards!" Anna seethed. "How did you get away from them?"



"This … this guy showed up," Kait felt her cheeks beginning to burn as she mentioned Jasper.                       
       
           



       



"Oh?" Anna waited expectantly for more information.



"He was really well built, and he basically … beat them up I guess. He sort of saved me."