Grayson looked at his watch impatiently on a Monday afternoon and tapped his foot as he reached for his cup of coffee at Havana Groove Bistro. His brows furrowed as he read a message from Thomas.After thirty more minutes, Grayson heard someone cleared his throat and he looked up with irritation to see Jordan standing a few feet away from him.“Very classy of you, Cunningham,” he snapped. “I wonder how you’re still in the business with that trait of yours.”Jordan ignored him and sat across from him and signaled a waiter to serve him coffee as well.“I’m pretty sure you know why I’m late,” he snapped back. He crossed one leg over the other and leaned back on his chair. “I have to tend to my wife and make sure that she’s doing okay before leaving to meet you.”Grayson only glared at him coldly.“So? Why’d you want to meet with me?” Jordan asked dryly. “Don’t tell me you’re here to beg me to give you time to see my wife? That’s unlikely.”Suppressing his anger, Grayson took a folder fro

Gripping her phone tightly in one hand, Maya raised her hand and knocked on Jordan’s office door at The Oceanview hotel the following day. She waited tensely for him to say come in from the other side of the door.The door opened and she came face to face with Mason, who looked surprise to see her.“Um, is he busy?” She asked quietly.“Who is it, Mason?” Jordan’s voice came from inside. “I have a quick and important conference call in ten minutes. Take care of it.”Mason turned towards the direction of the voice after. “It’s Ms. Maya, Mr. Jordan,” he answered patiently. He opened the door wider and stepped aside to let her enter, giving her an assured smile. “He just finished giving instructions on the update report of the renovation. He’s just having a quick call with the hotel at our South branch.”Maya gave Mason a thankful smile and went inside the office while he walked out, closing the door. She watched as Jordan finished his call and stood up, going around the table to meet her

Maya walked around the mall quietly as she immersed herself into window shopping the following day with four bodyguards surrounding her as instructed by Jordan. She remembered the argument they had in the morning when Maya was introduced to the additional two men that Jordan will be accompanying her. “I don’t need additional two men!” She snapped at him when the men told them that they will be waiting for her downstairs at the parking area. She gripped the plate of eggs that she made and set it down the table abruptly. “Two is already enough!” Jordan shut the newspaper that he is reading and slammed it on the table to prove his point. “You know that rogue was right,” he pointed out dryly. “He did warn me that you have this aversion to men tailing you wherever you go.” “There’s nothing wrong with that!” She returned angrily. “And why the hell are you talking with Grayson?” “Well, the TRO I had on him is for you and not for me,” Jordan said with a shrugged. He picked up his cup of c

Maya woke up the following Monday morning and was surprised to see Jordan, lying beside her sleeping and wearing the clothes probably from the day before. She studied his face that looks to be quite tired from the dark circles under his eyes. He had a straight nose that goes together with his prominent chin and squared jawline.He has a wide forehead, strong brow bone and thick straight eyebrows that she remembered she had her hands run over it when she gave in to his lovemaking the previous day.Where did he go? She wondered as she watched him rolled onto his back, still in a deep sleep.Jordan didn’t even bother to cover himself with. The way she sees it, he just probably took off his shoes and immediately fall into bed to sleep. Maya didn’t hear or felt him last night or whatever time he came because she took a sleeping pill when she had a nightmare the other night. That night where Jordan didn’t come home.It was the first time for her to sleep alone on his bed since the day he ha

Grayson slowed down the speed of his car as he finally saw the familiar line of trees of the residential area where he had followed Jordan over the weekend. He looked at his watch and saw that it already read eleven in the evening. Looking through the rearview mirror, he saw Cunningham opening his eyes and looked towards the surroundings.They could have arrived earlier. However, the wound on Maya’s arm became infected and she started having a fever. They finally had no choice but to make an emergency stop at a hospital in a small town they passed by for the doctors and nurses to tend to her. They had to wait several more hours as she was administered an antibiotic in her system that needs her to be at rest for a while.He also advised Jordan to put a different name on Maya’s information just as a precaution. Jordan stared at him for a while before following what he was told.“How the hell did you find out about the country home?” Jordan demanded at Grayson, who stood outside the buil