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He wasn’t wearing jeans He earing the ca fro had he been hoht here for her? Just for her?

"You shouldn’t be here, sweetheart" His hands slid over her back Up Down Then, his hand slid beneath the bottom of her shirt and touched her bare flesh

Oh God His hands were broad and calloused, war up her spine fro at the control she had promised herself she would have around him

At twenty-six, Cam was a world ahead of her in experience A warrior, a conqueror It was in his dark face, in those light green eyes

"Where should I be?" She lifted her head to hi hers as he stared down at her He swayed to the ainst her

"Safe," he answered

"At hoested sweetly "Those days are long gone, Cah she knew better She tilted her hips toward hiasped in shock as his hands slid to her rear, clenched the rounded flesh and jerked her to hie of his erection pressed tight against the sensitive flesh between her thighs

"You can go home with me, or I can take you back to your parents’," he rasped "Which one?"

Her lips parted as she fought to breathe, to e in thefor sohere" He backed her against the front of the truck, lifting her until he edged fully against her, his hands sliding beneath the skirt to the bare flesh revealed by the thong she wore

No, she wasn’t staying here She stared into his eyes, instinct clashing with feh the sensations racing through her

The party was a catalyst, nothing more It always had been--since that first party, when she was sixteen He was the dark visage that ed her from the date she had arrived with, and had made certain she never stayed

He had taken her hoht, he would take her to his home Since she was thirteen and found him in that truck at the back of her father’s land, Cam had been her protector in ways he had never been before

He pulled her to his pickup, unlocked the passenger door, and lifted her to the seat Before she could turn forward, one hand slid into her hair, the other claaze bored into hers, the tension building until Jaci felt as though it would eat her alive

"My house or your parents’?" his voice was hard, de

There was no question of which

"Yours" She had waited too long, fantasized for too many years

No sooner had the words left her than his lips covered hers Possessive, deue stroked into her ainst hers and in those seconds she learned more about a kiss than she had learned in her entire life

She learned a kiss could burn from the top of her head to the tips of her toes That it could slaer for more that she didn’t know she was capable of

Her arms wrapped around his shoulders, her head tilted to his,her lips as he nipped at theain

He kissed her like he was dying for her taste and hers alone He kissed her with an experience, a knowledge worlds away from hers

When he pulled back, she stared up at hi soho it means?"

She nodded Oh yes, she knehat it wouldalone in her own bed She would be in his bed, beneath his hard body

"Everything, Jaci?" His fingers tightened in her hair as he jerked her closer, his thighs spreading hers, her skirt riding up until the hard proof of his arousal pressed dead center between her thighs

"Everything," she gasped

He could have her here, right here in the front seat of his pickup, if that hat he wanted Whatever he wanted She was dying for ht" His fingers caressed her cheek, his expression darkening "Any night but tonight"

"But I knew you would be here tonight," she answered "I carimaced, a hard flex of his expression as his hands slid to her thighs, curved on the bare flesh and his hips pressed harder against her

Jaci felt her lashes droop, sexual weakness filling her, pued awareness of the fact that he was more man than she could handle, but the onlyyou here" He jerked back, slid her around on the leather seat and slammed the door

He didn’t drive sedately back to the house he shared with his brother on the other side of town He took the back roads with a speed that should have been reckless, but instead felt controlled

He handled the vehicle the same way he had handled her earlier With confidence and detere where he drew it to a stop and cut the e her mind He turned, opened his door, and stepped out before reaching back for her Lifting her against his hard body, her toes barely touching the floor, his lips stole her kiss, and stole her senses