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Mark and Ty had never been her lovers They were each other’s lovers Sohts were too dark and the pain followed too closely, they would draw her to their bed much as parents would a child There, they sheltered her between theave her the warmth she needed to hold on to at the time
His eyes narrowed as his expression turned stony
"I’ue with you over this" She finally shook her head as she glanced at her watch "The luo"
"I never open" He shrugged
"Which is a lousy way to promote a locally owned business," she infor You’re more of a businessman than this Besides, I have work to do, and I do "
"My business" His setting paid to organize and e that hellhole of an office, then I have a vested interest in your business," she told hie here because you don’t like et you what you want"
He uncoiled from the table Despite his size and the obvious power in his body, he racefully Like a panther on the prowl, his predatory green eyes narrowed and glittering behind pitch-black lashes, his body tense but prepared As though she would atteround instead, her aruardedly
"That store could burn down around its foundations for all I give a fuck," he sneered, shocking her with the latent fury in his voice "I keep it to piss off the holier-than-thou relatives who tried so damned hard to take it away fro more than luck"
And she didn’t believe that She knew better He wanted to pretend he hated it, but the stories related to her the day before by the e did care about that business, but for some reason he refused to admit it
"It was your father’s business" She tested the waters gently "I know your relationship with hih to let the store suffer"
"I bet he’s spinning in his grave" Dawg’s sht and vicious "I’ve hired people from the families he hated the ive credit to, have it The fact that that damned place makes h he truly couldn’t er that had been cheating hi practically lived in his office until he had the books and the store straightened out
He had an instinct for what people needed and what they wanted, and he hired people who could provide it And every employee hired had been hired by him personally
"Well, I need your help anyway," she told hiood handle on things, but I was going through so dust in the office and noticed you hadn’t ordered for the Christet that in"
"It’s in" His lip curled in disgust, self-disgust She could tell by his expression that ad it didn
’t set ith hi" She turned and rinsed their dishes "We also need to get a stack of files taller than I am filed The stock boy I sent for the file cabinets yesterday hadn’t arrived by ti in the office" If his voice could have become shorter, it did
Crista hid her smile as she stacked the dishes in the dishwasher
"Good; then you check the proble in the lumberyard behind the store For soularlity last week Several of your best contractors have threatened to use the chain lumberyard rather than Mackay’s because of theof his eyes
"Why didn’t Layla report this when it began?" His lips flattened in irritation
"Check your cell phone rihtened his expression then "I had a probleo then" She moved across the kitchen where her purse sat on the far counter
Before she could ht her arm and turned her fir to runblacket aith"
She restrained her s
"Keep telling yourself that," she told him instead "And while you’re at it, ask yourself the saht when I was still trying to catch my breath You wouldn’t black, and we both know it No more than you would see an innocent person i in this relationship?"
"Getting the fuck of my life," he snarled
Her lips did twitch then "So you are," she agreed, pulling her ar and glancing at him over her shoulder "Now, the question is, what do you really intend to do with it? Or h to know that the thing you’re not going to do is turn me over to Homeland Security Fuck me to deathyour life on it?"
"Yeah" She nodded slowly "I’ her brother had raised her, Crista thought later as they pulled into the parking lot behind the lu and growling and being a general pain in the butt just for the hell of it From her experience with Alex, she could tell thehere
But he hadn’t called his agent-in-charge, and she was fairly certain there were no agents en route to slap restraints on her She et lucky, and the worst she would have to deal as a snarling Dawg
Not that answering her own question in the ht had been easy Because Crista had known fro wouldn’t arrest her, and he wouldn’t see her arrested He knew she wasn’t involved<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>