Her Collateral Bride: A Lesbian Age Gap Romance

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.