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Beck ht as well have read herhere so goddamn vibrant that you draw everyone to you I’ve known Haain to see if he’d rescue you and finally fuck you, like he’s dying to"

"He’s not" Beck ently she’d pursued that path, only to be rebuffed…

"Yeah, he is Everyone else is a way to pass the tiuides He loves Don’t let hi different But I honestly didn’t see Lia That man has a serious hard-on for you"

Yes She’d been feeling it ht Raine flushed

"I wanted to see if Harinned "But I think it will be hts Liam for you instead"

Raine opened her mouth to shoot off a snappy reply, but a yell interrupted her Angry Wounded Un wooden hitting the floor followed

"Why don’t you go see what he’s up to, princess?" Beck suggested "He sure as hell doesn’t want to seehi for the stairs Was Beck suggesting that Ha up, Raine ran as fast as she could to reach hi reckless, like put his fist through a

Then she skidded into the bar and saw a shirtless Hammer lift a solid wooden barstool over his head The muscles of his back and arainst the ith a rowl It landed with a loud thu really ugly thatwith hi out the anshen he zipped behind the bar and grabbed a bottle in his fist He unscrewed the cap, then pitched the little plastic disc across the rooe, Raine stared wide eyed

Haht streaht across his face An angry red cut marred his brow He sported another just above his eye A bruise forht side of his jaw His bottoht With Beck?

"Macen, what the hell happened to you?"

Ha, just sawed angry breaths in and out as he drilled holes into her with an exacting gaze that pro the urge to take a step back, she stood her ground

"Raine" His voice finally thundered through the room as he slammed the bottle of liquor on the bar so hard the contents spewed fro strides, he ate up the distance between thehtly as she set aith that, did you? The fucking bastard!"

Raine tried to block out the zip of desire at the feel of Ha bastard did he h I wish to hell it had been Lia you Yeah, I heard you screa tone made her feel a little sick Not with shame, exactly Not just embarrassue What could they say that hadn’t already been said?

"Want to tellto wake everyone in the place up?"

"Leave o back to bed Let Liam sink into your hot little cunt sootten his fill of you yet In his place, I wouldn’t have," he snarled "But then I’ve got six years of ache for you to fuck out of ht I’d tie you to my bed and devour you for weeks Months Until you were sore Wrung out Exhausted and begging ain And that still wouldn’t stop me"

This fro to seduce hie His every word burned desire into her It sizzled her belly, seared her pussy She couldn’t let herself be swayed Crap like this was easy to spehen one was nursing tequila

"Bullshit You’re drunk I’ she should leave the rooo She turned back to hiot a decent bone in your body--Beck told me that he’s a damn doctor and that he wasn’t supposed to hurt ave you every opportunity to work out any ache you ht have for me But no Because you don’t have one If this is soo or whatever, juststop I know you’re never going to tie me to your bed"

And she didn’t want to hear Hammer confirhtly and, shoulders stiff, pivoted toward the stairs again

"Goddamnit, don’t turn away from me You look at me Now!"

The force of his delance over her shoulder Where the hell had his anger come from?