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"I have Every tinored your petty little efforts at flirtation Or didn’t you notice?"
"I noticed that kiss earlier, too" Black velvet seduction His voice raked over her nerve endings and reood it had been "That wasn’t force, Crista Stop fooling yourself You loved it"
Okay, he had her there Her stoe that she had no defenses against hiht isn’t enough I want the summer All suun, and he wanted the rest of it
"Why?" She forced the word past her numb lips as she stared back at hiuilt or innocence, Crista Ann I want you close while I figure which one to attach to you If you’re really innocent, then at the end of the suuilty, and your ass heads to jail Consider it your trial period Except instead of sitting in a jail cell, you’re enjoying all the coerous, sensual It curved like a predatory s in her chest
And he was ain Her mind filled with htest brush of his fingers could steal her defenses and leave her shaking in his ar, fiery And what he could do to her heart, her eal
He could tie her up in so many knots on the inside that she wondered if they would ever be untangled
Crista sed tightly against the onslaught of re about it" He shrugged easily "You can take a shower, rest a bit before you decide I’ll loan you a clean shirt" He sed, Dawg," she whispered then "You didn’t used to be such a cold-blooded bastard"
"Sure I did," he drawled "You were just one of the few that hadn’t recognized it Didn’t you hear all about that nasty little court battle after my parents died? Hell, honey, even my parents kneas a lost cause"
She had heard about the court battle How his aunt had tried to take the entire estate his parents had left him based on a few letters his father had written to his aunt Letters that were filled with disgust over his son’s lifestyle and his belief that Dawg didn’t deserve to share his name
It had lasted for years Even after he was in the Marines, he had been plagued with legal conflicts and the fight to hold on to his inheritance It had finally ended after his return hoo, but he had lost tens of thousands of dollars in the fight
"No" She shook her head "You weren’t like this before You would have never forced this on me then"
"But I a up But when you step back into this room, you damned well better have made yourto the federal govern didn’t let out a relieved breath until Crista disappeared into the lower bathroohtly in her fingers, her large brown eyes watching him warily as she closed the door behind her
Minutes later he heard the shower running and ran his fingers through his hair as he blew out another hard breath
For a while there, he honestly thought she was going to choose the alternative When she had finally headed for the shower, he had to force hi in hell could convince hio
He rubbed at the back of his neck as he griht years he had dreamed about her When he least expected it, when he eak, tired Drea his own dick like an adolescent andher name
The past year had been worse He was like a da out of his way just to see her Hoping to catch her s the sound of her voice
Damn, he had missed her after she left town Not that he had stuck around for long He had signed up with the Marines before his parents’ death, and he shipped out just -distance court battles and the hell of trying to hold on to his parents’ estate had consuht of Crista
She had left so suddenly, before he had the chance to gather up his nerve and do more than flirt with her a little bit
When she returned to Soht maybe, this ti crawling out from under a rock
Why the hell did he even care? It wasn’t like she was the only game in town He could have his pick froht, one week, oneyear if he wanted to keep one that long
Instead, he was black a da between them like wildfire
And it was there It sparked and exploded every ti distance of each other He could see her response to it The widening of her eyes, the accelerated breathing, her hard little nipples pressing beneath her clothing and a wild flush to her creamy cheeks She wanted hi it, fighting it with everything inside her, and Daanted to knohy
He kneo without a daure out the reason
Breathing out roughly, he moved upstairs to his own shower and quickly stripped before stepping beneath the spray
He showered quickly He didn’t want to give her tih––to consider her options as they stood
She wanted hih that the whole ti harder beneath her shirt and her gaze was flashing with a subtle spark of lust
Dawg had made it a point to knoo and too dumb to even understand why, he had been drawn to their softness, their veneer of sweetness
The dark undercurrents of passion, power plays, and feminine wiles
Women ere the exact opposite of his cold-blooded, crazy ave soft touches and whiave them Who reached for hi it in hatred
He kne to read them, how to pleasure theave to indicate their willingness to be pleasured