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"So tell ator," she snapped, "what answers did you coressman Roberts?"

She knehat rumors the Robertses had spread

"Wait" She held up her hand before he could speak "On second thought, let e aressman Roberts kept in the desk in his private office When they caught me, out of the kindness of their hearts, they just fired me from the job they hiredthe police Did I get it right?"

He shot her a short glance "There were ruressotten about that one

Jaci propped her elbow on the door ledge, pressed her fingers to the bridge of her nose and breathed in deeply For five years she had been dealing with this

It had taken her years to save up theher own design shop, all because of one malicious, corrupt couple that didn’t kno to keep their dirty laundry hidden

"So, why did you vouch for lare

"You’re no thief"

"But I could very well be a horess true to foret in her way, or who knows soested "What happened, Jaci?"

"I breathed," she gritted out as he pulled beneath the entrance to the hotel Ian Sinclair had placed her in "And now I’ to my room, alone Thank you for the ride"

The door opened s his hand to her as she stepped from the vehicle and headed for the entrance

She was furious and she knew she had no right to be She had known in co the past, once she stepped into the Robertses’ territory

Congress a bid to replace his father-in-law in the Senate He had a lot to lose, and as far as she knew, only one person knew their dirty little secrets Secrets she wished she didn’t know

"Daht up with her in the lobby, his fingers wrapping around her ar her to a stop as she headed for the elevators "Talk toto you," she bit out "You’re as overbearing as Cam ever was, and I’m not in the mood to deal with it Go back home, Chase Find a nice little woman who can put up with you and your brother, and leavethese questions," he warned her, his voice dark "And he will ask them, Jaci He’s not the otten that proht he took you hohened, as Jaci beca frouests that loitered in the lobby

"I don’t know"

"He said he would kill any"Did you think he was joking? Do you think for a ot that proressman Roberts’s death?"

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Cameron Falladay stood on the stone patio outside the ballrooainst the brick wall, a drink in hand, head lowered His head filled with a woh his soul

Her Jaci

He ground his teeth together and fought against the need to leave the party, to race to her hotel room before Chase could touch her, before his brother could take the wo

He wanted to sink inside her with a hunger that had tightened his muscles to the point that they ached His cock was iron hard, throbbing brutally with that need

What had possessed hio to her? He had known if he didn’t, Chase would, and at that ti years since he had touched the woman that tormented damned near every dream he’d had since she left the s need that had struck hiht had al at her, the way that dress draped down, baring her back, swishing sexily above her rounded ass

It was enough to o to his knees and worship that rounded flesh and everything above and below it

Instead of going to her, he had left Chase to go after her instead, because he didn’t trust his control He didn’t trust his ability not to deo, risking his brother, even the brother he shared his wo his control

No one had ever teo, a tender twenty-one-year-old virgin with stars in her eyes, she had teet the rules that had defined his life Made hi other than who he was

"Hey, Caress as he stared back at the smaller man with barely restrained violence in his heart

Where he stood was shadowed, darker than the area around it, hiding the anger he had promised himself and Ian he would keep carefully restrained