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Slaain, he locked it and packed her items in the backseat of his truck

"Move over" His voice was harsh as he stepped to the opened door once again

"I need my car"

"I said , I need it" She forced herself not to screa too daht him he had lifted her over the console and dropped her into the passenger side seat before cliripped the door latch with every intention of throwing herself fro her precious Rodeo

"Open that door, and so help ret it"

She stilled at the sound of his voice, turning to glare at hiear and turned the monster vehicle around

"I need htened on the steering wheel, the other on the gearshift that rose fro lot and turned back onto Main Street before heading for the interstate

"That’s not fair None of this is fair, Dawg," she yelled "You stoleI own"

And that wasn’t ht that counted

"I’ll take care of your bills," he bit out

"Why not just stamp whore on my head," she sneered

The truck was jerked to the side of the road, rocking to a hard stop as he turned to her, the effort to control whatever rose inside hiain, and I’llpleasant," he snarled between clenched teeth

"What do you call it then?"

"I call it a deal you reed to" He spoke with hard deliberation as his eyes speared into hers "And I make the rules You don’t Now sit back, fasten your seat belt, and stop arguing the point with uaranteed to show everyone who passes by this truck just how little I care about propriety or their fucking opinions of either of us"

Which aainst the furious words rising to her lips, she slammed the seat belt latch in, crossed her arht ahead

She adhtened of Dawg, but warier than she would have been even two days before There was a glow of lust, of hunger in his gaze that had the fe in trepidation And it had herhad always been so fiercely controlled He never showed anger, at least that was the ruet-er she saw in hier hiding who or what he was And the savage hunger that glowed in his eyes aroused hershe had always sensed lurking beneath the surface The one who had held her back when she was younger, who frightened the immature sexuality she had possessed then

It was that inner ht she had spent with him The drunken charh he hadn’t been rough, he had been deterht?"

His voice had her stilling, her heart beating faster in her chest She didn’t want to talk about that night She didn’t want to relive it any more than she already had

"We had sex Period"

"We had sex, so you ran out of toith anotherso between us that threatens to burn down the county once we get back into bed Sorry, fancy-face, that one doesn’t go over so ith ot his name She’d heard Ray relate the tale, how even as a child he would get so with a bone Dawg He hadn’t changed " She shook her head tiredly "What’s happening now does I can’t afford not to work for three months, and I won’t accept money to sleep with you I have to have a job"

"We’re not talking about that right now" His voice ru about what happened eight years ago, either," she retorted "Actually, that night is really pretty fuzzy in otten it"

And that had to be the biggest lie she had ever told in her life

Crista glanced over at him, satisfied and yetintensity of his expression

"It just pissesat her over the top edge of his dark glasses as he caht

The vehicle rolled to a stop as Crista stared out at the town that stretched on each side of the highway running through it It had grown in the years she had been away from it, but it was still filled with the sah-rises here, no frantic rush of people walking down the sidewalks, fighting to get fro everyone around them She could walk into any store and see someone she knew or had known from her childhood

She had friends here, distant relatives, and history

She are of hiear and accelerated through the green light, gathering speed and heading to theundercover against the drug dealers around here?" she asked hirown, but I didn’t knoas bad enough to warrant late-night raids"

"They’re rare" His voice was clipped, the e clear He didn’t want to talk about it

"It ht me in the warehouse looked like one of the monsters television portrays If the Latin factions have moved into Soers tapped against the steering wheel as he glanced at her