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Donovan nodded "Thanks, Sean I don’t like you risking your job forwith abusive assholes and throwing innocent wo up the badge," Sean said, his tone serious "If irl to an abusive father, then it’s a job I don’t want anymore"

There was brief adlanced Sean’s way But it was quickly wiped away by a look of indifference as she listened to the interchange between the two o," Rusty said "I made sure no one followed ht here after the guy showed up I waited a couple of hours He showed up as soon as the store opened and I played it cool and didn’t leave until later in the "

"I don’t want you back there," Donovan said seriously "I don’t want you in this asshole’s presence again Go back to Mom and Dad’s for now I’ll talk with Dad later today and let hi to run too," Sean said "I just wanted you to knohat I ca to be iht wraps and make sure they aren’t out in public"

Donovan nodded "Thanks, Sean And thanks, Rusty I’ll talk to you both later"

Rusty walked out of Donovan’s house, Sean on her heels She’d parked next to Sean’s patrol car, and she paused in front of the to confront Sean

He pulled up short when she turned to face him and took a step back as she stared him down

"What’s your problem with me, Sean? Why do you still see me as a stupid kid with more brass than brains?"

He blinked in surprise, and then his eyes narrowed "I don’t have a probleer"

She rolled her eyes "You still treat me like I’m some clueless kid I’uy when he caht over to tell Donovan what happened"

Sean growled in frustration "I do not see you as a kid"

Before she could react, before she could even think about what he was doing, he yanked her roughly into his arainst his chest at the saentle kiss It was filled with a er Desire Lust Need

At first she tensed, caught completely unaware by the fact that Sean Cameron--aher And not just kissing her, but co her mouth

Whoa, but theher rily over her lips and then slipped into herdeep as they tasted each other

Holy shit! Sean Caled She was coht Of any response All she could do was sag there in his ar hold as he laid one hell of a kiss on her

And then just as quickly as he’d lost control, he yanked away, swearing vividly as he put her at arth

"Goddamn it," he bit out "That should not have happened I’ht It won’t happen again"

Before she could collect her scattered thoughts, he stalked to his patrol car, slapping that Stetson she found so sexy on his head, got in and sla out of Donovan’s drive She stood there nuate

He’d kissed her

She raised a tre the imprint of his ht that kept going round and round in her mind Sean Cameron had kissed her

Why?

And why the hell had she let him?

CHAPTER 22

DONOVAN surveyed the occupants of his kitchen with deep satisfaction Travis had wanted to get out of bed, already going stir-crazy at having spent so et up, and so he’d set her up at his dining room table with the IV pole next to her so she could sit and eat with everyone else

Eve sat between theht with joy and relief Donovan took it all in, loving the way they looked in his house His family They were his He’d alreadyback for him He just hoped like hell that Eve would be on board

He knew she was attracted to his He also knew that things had happened at a ind pace that he hoped hadn’t overwhelmed Eve He’d been honest in that he would take it slow, but he’d been equally honest in that slow to sos

He was exhibiting extreme patience because what his instincts screamed for him to do from the very first moment he’d laid eyes on Eve was to claim her To take her to his bed, possess her, h Very soon Tonight, if he had his way He wanted torelationship, such as it was He wanted her to kno he felt about her, and words would only carry him so far He wanted to show her

"Okay, food’s ready," he declared, carrying a stack of hot pancakes to the table

He set it in the middle and forked up pancakes for both Travis and Cammie and then placed three on Eve’s plate When her eyes widened and she auto that she could eat so nored her and issued a stern directive

"Eat," he said "You need to catch up All of you do"

But he needn’t have worried that Travis and Ca into his pile with gusto Donovan leaned over to help Ca theht back at him and then picked up her fork with the hand that wasn’t attached to the IV and began stuffing bites into her hted--and inspired--by her siblings’ enthusiasood portion of her own plate Donovan sat back, eating buta ht No --he understood their concern--Eve was right for him He felt it to his bones He’d known that his brothers had known from the moment they’d met their wives that they were the one Perhaps Saer to come around than the others, but they’d all known, and maybe Donovan had never truly appreciated the scope or depth of their feelings, the knowledge that their woot it now because he felt the same exact way, and if his brothers felt even a tenth of the intensity that Donovan experienced when he looked at or thought about Eve, then he well understood their drive to possess their wo to waste ti to deny what he no his destiny to be