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Hell, Cam knew he could live without it He did Often But sometimes, the memories crowded inside hier that only increased the longer he ignored it

Chase understood that hunger He may not understand how Caer

He rubbed at the scars on his chest The slashing scars weren’t just fro the attack There were scars he had gained from the three days he’d spent as a prisoner of the small band of terrorists that had captured hiony was a joke, coh Physical pain was a hell of a lot easier to forget than the brokenhell after his parents had died and his aunt had been left to care for thehtened around the bottle as he restrained the urge to hurl it across the roorown tired of cleaning up the ers slowly, inhaled deeply, and forced himself to remember the fresh, clean s rose perfume, stale sex, and liquor

He finished off the beer, breathed in roughly, then strode to the cordless phone at the center island Jerking the phone from the base, he made a quick call to the exclusive boutique several streets froave her his request--Jaci’s size and coloring--and authorized the credit card transaction Mrs Lisette Miles, the owner of the boutique, was ecstatic with the sale, and more than happy to ht at her hotel

With that accoht sht he would try to seduce her into trusting hi her trust couldn’t be that damned hard Hell, she knew him, kneould kill for her, kneould do whatever it took to protect her God help anyone who tried to hurt her, because he’d make certain they paid for it

He’d stayed out of her life for seven years because he’d known she wasn’t ready for him Known he wasn’t ready for her She would come to him when she was ready That hat he’d told himself over the years He’d made certain her parents knehere he was, iven time, and that she could find him if she needed him

He wasn’t a stalker He wasn’t obsessed He just kneho his heart belonged to, just as he’d realized he may never have what he needed from her The hardest part was the fear that he couldn’t be what she needed A part of hiht never be the man she needed, but he couldn’t walk away fro without her--until she arrived here, in his territory She had come to him

He shed his clothes and stepped beneath the shower, his teeth clenching as he fought back the do fine without her, but he was going to live better with her, and starting tonight she would learn that

She was going to fight hi than he could describe She would challenge him, she would meet him head-on and make him work for what he wanted

When was the last tiet the inforations he and Chase dove into? Sometimes that ork; but women had never been work If one wasn’t interested, then he could find another that was No big deal, because none of them was Jaci

Now, it was Jaci

He washed his hair quickly before soaping his body, grith of his cock and thought of Jaci A hard-on always made him think of Jaci

Her life had been one of loneliness, he knew that froative report Her lovers were evidently few and far between, because he couldn’t find them She didn’t make friends easily, and those friends she had made were intensely loyal

A woman as fiery, beautiful, and passionate as Jaci needed h She needed a man A lover she couldn’t walk all over, one that would challenge her, make her blood hot One that could take all that restless, burning passion inside her and return it to her tenfold

He was the man to not just taain, and to put out the flaht Jaci wasn’t going to give hi without more from him He had hoped she would, had expected her to He should have known better Seven years wasn’t going to weaken a woh to walk away fro he knew she had wanted down to the soles of her feet

She was adventurous She was a wo to a weak hosts inside hiood and well there were parts of hiain That would be the battle Getting her to trust hi his secrets to himself

Because those secrets could destroy hih They had nothing to do with ht of her and the seduction to come He had never had to put himself out to seduce, but Jaci was definitely worthy of the effort She orth everything, even his own coive a woman his release without a condom

In his entire sexual life, he had never, not once, taken a woman without a condom Evidently, Jaci had been just as careful, just as picky And pickiness wasn’t the end of it It was more than picky, and he knew it She had taken him, a part of her did trust him, he realized She would have never allowed him to take her without protection if she didn’t So it wasn’t just an issue of trust Which ure out exactly what that issue was

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