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in her life before, that she’d fought so hard and had no one by her
side to fight with her. “I like your eyes,” he said, smiling back at her as she
tilted her face up to his. “I like your mouth,” he murmured, placing a kiss to
her lips. “And your shoulders.” He dropped a kiss to
her warm skin, before chuckling to himself. “And if you want to know all the
other body parts I like, then maybe we need to head back upstairs.”
    “In case you’ve forgotten, we’re not exactly
alone right now.”
    Jake groaned. “We could be quiet.”
    Faith just laughed and dragged him by the hand.
“Come on, lover boy, before things get too hot and heavy.”
    “Lover boy?” He held tight to her hand and forced her to
stop, swinging her out then in so she landed with a thump against his chest.
    Faith held on to him, arms looping around his
waist.
    “So what do you say?” he asked, voice low as he spoke into her ear. “Want to take a crazy chance and stay
here?”
    She looked up, like she knew what he was
thinking, had read his mind. “It scares the hell out of me, Jake. The way I
feel about you.”
    “Believe me, I know the feeling,” he admitted.
Telling Faith how he felt was hands down the hardest thing he’d done in a long
time. “Just promise me that you won’t up and leave. That’s all I need to know.
I don’t care that we technically haven’t even had a first date. I’ve wasted away
too long on my own, and whatever it is we have going on? It feels right and
that’s all I care about.”
    She kept pressed to his chest as she spoke. “So
you want me to tell you that I really like you too?”
    Jake’s body went stiff. He took a deep breath,
held her tighter.
    “Do you?”
    Faith sighed. “I didn’t want to admit it, Jake,
but yeah.” She laughed. “So much for spending one night
together and one night only, huh?”
    Jake laughed, and he didn’t force her to look
up or step away from her, just cradled her in his arms. There was nothing else
he needed to know. So long as she wanted to be here with him, it was all he
needed. Now he just had to work out a way to protect her and make sure she
never wanted to leave Fairview ever again.
    To hell with being sensible
and trying to protect himself from being hurt. He wanted her here and that was all he gave a
damn about. Which meant he had some business to tend to in the morning, whether
she wanted him to or not.

CHAPTER EIGHT
    JAKE had a bad feeling about what he was doing. A really bad feeling. It had seemed like a great idea the night before, but now? Not so much. But the
only way he was ever going to convince Faith to stay permanently in Fairview
was to confront this dickhead of an ex of hers. And that meant getting him to
confess to starting the fire, which wasn’t exactly going to be easy.
    He stepped out of his truck and onto the
pavement, eyes trained on the house ahead of him. There were toys scattered,
and the place need fixing up some, but he ignored everything and focused on the
door.
    It was
obvious the guy had a family, children of his own, which gave him good enough
motive. It was also clear that
he needed to tidy up his yard.
    Jake stepped over a bike and knocked at the
front door. He heard movement inside, and then he was greeted by a pretty but
tired looking blonde.
    “I was hoping to find Phillip at home,” Jake
said, smiling. He was feeling like shit just looking at the woman, given what
he was about to say to her husband. But it had to be done.
    “You’re a friend of his?” she asked, still not
fully opening the door.
    Jake grinned. “We haven’t seen each other in a
long time, but yeah, we go way back.”
    She nodded and turned around, calling out.
“Phil! Someone here to see you.”
    Jake took a step back and leaned on the porch
railing, not wanting to invade her space. A thud of footfalls made him look up,
to see the man himself approach the door. Jake hadn’t
exactly thought through how he’d get him on his own, but his wife