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She turned away froe to kick his butt herself He was right Ray would likely skin his hide if he ever learned of his son’s proposal

It wasn’t that she hadn’t expected it She had She had looked forward to it Hoas that for some sick shit? She had actually looked forward to the day Roould return and o

And she had known if he did, the possibility of just such a proposal would come She had been ready for it Prepared for it What she hadn’t expected was the cold-blooded intention he had of using it to catch her would-be rapist As though the act no longer had anything to do with the two of theer were a , without emotion And God help her, whenever she was around Rowdy, she felt nothing but e forks of sensation that rippled over her nerve endings, rendering even the air itself a caress against her sensitive flesh

And eo there Except she was already there Arousal, uncertainty, fear of the unknown, and a fear of losing the drea her to choose She had wanted to be seduced

She turned back to hi as she stared at the confident, cool countenance he presented to her

"Get out ofher lips together as she glared at his And I’aleam in his eyes for just a second For the first time in all the years she had known him, she had never surprised him, until now

With a ripple ofhers as he rose, co around the bed

He was aroused The thick length of his erection tented his sweatpants, drew her eyes and made her mouth water She had fantasized about that erection About all the things a woman could do with such a prier on the proof of that arousal before lifting theain He was close So close she could smell the clean, male scent of him Dial soap and heated male arousal

She stood still as he stalked around her, the movements deliberate, predatory Suddenly he wasn’t the laid-back, patiently amused Rowdy she had always known She could feel the purpose, the ht as he paused behind her, his hand reaching up to allow his fingers to smooth her hair back over her shoulder, to bare the shell of her ear

"You’re mine" She jumped at his whispered response "And, baby, I do like to play" His hands ran down her ar a friction of heat as she felt his lips at her shoulders "I guess that "

Her eyes widened a second before she jerked out of his hold, turning back to hiry smile

Stupid innings of a s at the corners of his lips

"I could convince you"

No doubt

She snorted as though it weren’t possible Unfortunately, he probably could convince her, but at what cost to her soul?

"Go get in your own bed, Rowdy Don’t make me cause a scene Ray wouldn’t like it" She walked to hers, flipping back the blankets and h he didn’t ed," hedown at her, aroused, detered at all, Rowdy" She pulled the blankets to her waist as she sat propped against the pillows "Perhaps you just never really knew me" She raised her brows in e up with me," he accused "You don’t want to throw me out"

That one was a no-brainer No, she didn’t want to throw hiainst hiht before and awaken as war

She lifted her chin, refusing to answer hi stare as he watched her from beneath the veil of his thick, black lashes

"Go play with soht have to kill hiaa on his powerful hips as his eyes began to simmer with irritation

"I think it is for you," she answered soames with me, Rowdy Not now, not ever"

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Rowdy leaned forward,hiht the need to glance away fro away frory, made her need

"I’m not scared of you, Rowdy," she tried to smirk back at hialy soft "You want so froer

"Fine," she snapped "I want you out ofmotion with her hand then stared at hi her wrist

Her heart juers to his hness of his lips before opening theue

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