down to her toes. No one had ever made her feel that way
before.
“Don’t worry,” Haley soothed, splashing water again. “I’m
not a virgin or anything.”
It was too much. Claire turned on her heel and stormed off
the beach. She left Haley in the water, but she was far from
finished with her. She wanted to bait her and act like a child?
Endanger herself? She was getting a guard, and it was going to
be a big, burly, three-hundred-pound hulking brute of a man
who was very much taken and not available to fall for the
whims of a woman too beautiful for her own good. Or, even
better, maybe Jenny had some friends. Some feral friends.
Claire wasn’t a damn babysitter. She had better things to do
than be goaded by her enemy’s daughter. The woman was
probably as devious as her father. She was full of herself, that
was certain. Reckless. Annoying. Rude. Self-absorbed and too
self-assured by far.
Asking for insurance in the form of Haley Watt had been a
mistake, but Claire wasn’t about to admit it. She’d just hire a
bodyguard slash nanny and wash her hands of the mess that
she herself had created and time would pass fast enough.
Everything would go back to normal.
She wouldn’t let it be any other way.
Chapter 6
Haley
Well, shit, she’d gone and done it. Claire had actually
made good on her threat and hired a bodyguard. His name was
Snake—probably not his real name, if she was willing to
hazard a guess—and he lived up to the moniker by covering
himself in head-to-toe snake tattoos.