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Jack was kissing her.
Lexi froze, momentarily taken in by the delicious feel of his lips pressed against her. She recognized something utterly reckless in his demeanor. It was like he didn’t care what he was doing or what kind of damage he was causing, he just wanted Lexi. Jack wanted her with a primal instinct he had never been able to tame. She was his escape, and on a different day, she would have wanted to escape with him.
But today, she could not believe he had the nerve to kiss her.
She didn’t care if he was having doubts or if he wanted to bow out of the wedding, that didn’t suddenly make it okay for him to kiss her. Even Lexi, with her loose morals when it came to Jack Howard, knew that this was one hundred percent not okay. Not on his wedding day.
She placed both
