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"Oh" Her breasts rose up as she took a deep, shuddering breath "You’ve never let on"

Yes, he had If she ever saw the way he watched her when she wasn’t looking, she’d be in no doubt as to the strength of his unacceptable reaction to her "Because it doesn’t "

"Liar" She stared at hi "Other Psy don’t feel desire"

"It’s a ed - to her and to himself "A fracture I intend to repair" What he couldn’t understand hy it had reappeared so quickly after the work he’d done to close it yesterday He should’ve been immune to the sweet seduction of her body

"Then what? You forget temptation?"

"Yes"

Eyes full of fire, she turned her back to him and continued with the coffee preparation "You know that list about you? I should’ve added pigheaded to it"

Her anger fascinated hi that brought hie of a catastrophic breach The dissonance spiked and this time he listened, because for hiet his eet his ability under control

His poasn’t passive, wouldn’t turn inward if he lost his white-fisted grip on it No, it would go outward, would seek to tear flesh and crush fragile feminine bones "Don’t you ever wonder," he asked coldly, conscious that he was assassinating any chance he had with her, "if you’re attracted to me because of what Enrique did?"

This ti and stalked over to stare down at him "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

He rose to his feet "He was Psy So am I He hurt you Maybe you want to cancel out that experience with a positive one"

Her fists were bloodless skin over bone, her jaw set "Unlike you, I don’t think through every one ofto my emotions"

He stood toe to toe with her, almost able to feel the psychic wave of her fury "This tih You need to examine the reasons behind those emotions"

She blew out a frustrated breath "And if I was looking for some kind of validation that not all Psy are evil ive it to ht daive you the kind of a relationship you need to heal"

"Heal? I’ether I put ainst her heart

"But you haven’t been in close contact with any male outside of your safe circle since the rescue" Except him And under no circumstances could he have her

"So you really meant what you said to me yesterday?" Her voice rose "I should find ht off the rising incursions of dissonance, the razor blades sliding through his brain stes"

"Oh, I see You think I should fuck sounned from her lips like bullets "No, wait, it’s Psy men I’m apparently worried about So maybe you’re the one I should - "

"Don’t say it" His fingers were gripping her chin though he had nothem there "Don’t," he repeated when she opened her aze "Why? That’s what you just tried to reduce us to"