Never Too Far Novel

“I’ll do it myself,” said Jasper. He couldn’t let her do it, or something in him might snap. That was why he took a cold shower: so he could keep his fire in check. He didn’t want her stoking it again.

“No. I’ll do it,” Willow protested. There was no way he could reach his back easily.

Jasper couldn’t win, so he let her do whatever she wanted. Willow skipped the Q-tip and poured the salve over her hand. She rubbed her hands together to warm the salve up and massaged Jasper’s bruises.

The moment her hand touched his back, Jasper tensed up. All he could think of was her hand against his skin.

“Tell me if it hurts. The captain said I have to do this for the salve to work. Hold it in, alright?” said Willow.

There was no need to hold in any pain. Willow’s strength was too minor to cause any pain. It was then Willow realized that Jasper had a big back, and his muscles were really taut. They were hard to the touch and a little bumpy.

of sweat glistening on his forehead. Willow had just stoked his flame of

found so they could locate the artifact’s location. She came to the conference room, and Winston asked

just went through the leads we found, and there’s a map in this box

Willow said in delight. So that

through GPS,

find something, so there was no way she would want to return empty-handed. She wanted to do something for

it onto the screen for everyone to see. While everyone was staring

gave up their seat for

after he went through Willow’s notes. He was every bit as knowledgeable

of the map went back to his room and took out his laptop. He then logged into a private account of some website and sent the photo of the map