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She needed to keep enticing hie was critical But she also needed to let hi down her walls Trust in general was an expensive luxury--and a foolish one But unless she wanted to lose Luc to this better-than-her bitch, Alyssa ure out how to let him deep inside more than just her body
THE silence in the SUV was choking Alyssa kept biting her lower lip Her sunglasses protected against theher expression
Whatever she was thinking shouldn’t h she’d betrayed almost no emotion when he’d mentioned his relationship with Emily, he suspected that the words hurt And he felt like shit He wanted to say so in six days and would probably never see Alyssa Devereaux again It was better this way
Exceptshe’d worn another short skirt--white with soarters Her sheer black hose with a sexy seaue The red shoes were pure fuck-enerous breasts and triht now he couldn’t even remember what Emily looked like And he was pretty sure that in the face of so "whore" into her driver’s seat, she would scream hysterically and cry
Luc swore under his breath
"With your job, you must have traveled all over the world," Alyssa offered
As he cruised to a red light and stopped, he looked her way She’d pondered a long ti? "Yes"
"What’s your favorite place?"
"You’re seriously asking me about travel?" Not our chat in the hallway?
She bristled, eased back in her seat, looked away "Justconversation"
But why? She wasn’t a talk-for-talk’s-sake sort of wohts on travel? Nothing else?"
"Never er
He winced Maybe she’d extended an olive branch to show that she had no hard feelings If so, he’d just squashed her offering without thought He couldn’t afford to be sexual with her--but he didn’t have to be unkind
"Barbados I like eather Their beaches are gorgeous Swi"
No reply
"I went to culinary school in Paris It’s a great city Winters are a bit too cold forlike the street corner cafés and the culture"
She sent hiht smile "I’ll take your word for it"
When she turned away again, he frowned What did thator that she hadn’t been to Paris The truth hit, and he sent her a lingering stare before traffic forced his attention again How often did strippers travel overseas, especially ones ned their own clubs? And now she had her savings tied up in Bonheur
So why had she started this conversation? He didn’t think it had anything to do with travel, really Was she trying to get to know him?
After the way he had fucked her blind, left her, apologized with iain justbitch Most women would have Alyssa had simply asked a question
Now he found hiht
"Tellabout you," he deht platinu across her small shoulders "You know the pertinent facts I’ a restaurant"
"You’re a bit deeper than that Did you grow up in Louisiana?"
Her gaze whipped to her lap suddenly She bit her lip, looking pensive "No You grow up in Texas?"
He shook his head "Clearwater Beach, Florida You didn’t say where you were froreed
Luc wanted to pry more, but they’d arrived at the club And he knew a closed subject when he heard one Why the hell didn’t she want to talk about her hometown?
As soon as he put the car in park, Alyssa ju sun glared on the chipped black surface, fraht sight of Luc
"What’s going on?" she asked him as she approached and tried to brush past hiainst his body Then he cupped her face in his hand, hisinside Luc railed at the sight His mind screamed an order for Tyler to take his hands off Alyssa Two facts hit him: First, she wasn’t Luc’s, so he had no say in who touched her Second, she wasn’t fighting Tyler in the least
He whispered so Luc couldn’t hear In return, she nodded anxiously Tyler hesitated, kissed her forehead, then took hold of her hand and reached for the door
"What’s going on?" he asked the bouncer
Tyler glared at him over his shoulder "I’m responsible for her safety, and I take it very seriously Go back to your fryalator"
If he’d had any less control over his teed the bastard, despite the fact Tyler outweighed hiotten in at least a few good swipes But why give the asshole what he wanted?
"You give up your stand-up routine because you sucked?"
Alyssa ju her face "Could you two stop it? Luc, soht’s close and Tyler’s arrival at ten this "
Luc went dead cold inside Pure coincidence that someone had stabbed her seat with a knife, then her club had been broken into h time with Jack and Cousin Deke Coincidences reed
"They barged in through an upstairsRemy and the boys ca was taken Tyler is trying to figure out how someone bypassed the security systeure it out"
"Deke toldher mother in California," Luc supplied
Tyler clenched his jaw "Shit"
"I’ll call Deke and see when he can do it," Luc offered