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Those pressure cracks that Derek’s presence had created ran a little further into her heart, ood friend, not for the past several years You’ve known it, yet you’ve been a far better friend than I deserve"
Raina’s dispassion disappeared Snatching the envelope out of Ruby’s hand, she tossed it to a side table and put both hands on Ruby’s shoulders "Okay, you’re acting like this is the last ti it really hard for me to be pissed off at you And that just annoys me more"
"Why are you pissed off at me?" Ruby blurted out
"You have your secret That will just have to be ned for longer s up beneath her Ruby did the same, so they faced each other In the ht they looked like bookends, connected by their joined hands, elbows propped on the back cushion between the she could say so hed "Don’t knohy you bring this out in me Come here"
As Raina drew her closer, Ruby laid her head in the other wo her arms around her hips as Raina stroked her hair "You’re a pain inRuby’s ponytail "And you better co to a cult and let them torture him to death"
"You won’t He’s the only male you ever let sleep in your bed"
"Well, he is warht drool and have terrible gas, but as long as I don’t light a candle, he’s a lot safer than most bedmates"
"Men aren’t really all that bad"
"Occupational hazard, dove" Raina twisted Ruby’s ponytail around her fingers "This is a place for men to come and be vulnerable That’s fine, but what I want is aout like sloppy shirttails A real man can lower his shields and still be aas ive Derek that much credit He’s a man in every sense of the word They’re few and far between"
Ruby was quiet a ured that out so process, usually involving alcohol, anger and bitter jokes about the tiny size of his penis and brain, which are interchangeable at that point You’re carrying a deep, frightening anger, Ruby, but it’s the kind that pushes a man away from her, not the other way around"
The lump in Ruby’s throat was painful and i back the tears Da it back under control, rubbing her nape and shoulders without saying anything for a while
When they’d slept in the saave herself the contraband memory, probably the real reason Raina didn’t sleep withAddictive, when it was the right iven how
"Well, he’s free, by my choice" Ruby forced out the words "Go for it I don’t have any claied her head up "I like all my limbs in the proper places Don’t try to convince me you wouldn’t turn me into a warty toad, because I know better Ruby… was it losing the baby? Is that why you sent him away?"
"Raina--"
"I know You don’t want to talk about that, not now, not ever You told me as much, when you made me swear he would never know" Raina cupped her face when Ruby would have looked away "That man is a pain in the ass in so many ways But I will bet every dollar I’ve ever earned that he’s missed you as much as you miss him And you kno I feel aboutShe didn’t want this conversation The look in Derek’s intense dark blue eyes was already haunting her, vibrating through her body "He’s probably been with hundreds of wo, shoulders weighted doith an avalanche of hard emotions "Derek Stormwind is far too virile, too close to nature…"
That was the thing about his from him that were far more than human When they’d walked on a beach and he embraced her, she’d felt the h his kiss, inhaled salt and sea through his skin In the rand panorama of peaks, the s ribbons of creeks, streah him When she’d visited such places alone, that quiet tranquility she felt, a sense of the powerful energy of nature itself, that connected animal, rock, tree, sky, stars and ic It was him He was a conduit to the Earth, to all four of the eley that connected theentle rain and terrible thunder both, and no woman with a pulse could resist that Even zombie women would probably respond to hiet himself all sorts of available pussy I’ for it"
"You are farthe Great Rite is the last thing he’d ever do He is tediously noble, a true white knight With a deliciously dee to him when it comes to that out-front sexuality of his"