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There she stood, his T-shirt hanging nearly to her knees, her da around her face and shoulders, naked vulnerability shining in her eyes And she needed ive He knew she needed o, could no longer risk her finding it somewhere else

"You’ve had seven years to find someone else," he told her "I left you alone I didn’t co for you when the need to do just that ate ave you seven years to find a man that would deserve you, and you didn’t Now you’re here, and I won’t let you go If itwhat’s left ofwhat’s left ofas her eyes looked too wide, too filled with sorrow for her pale face

He cupped his hand around her neck, lifting her face to his The pain in her eyes nearly broke him He couldn’t let her know the truth of hie and bitterness spill onto her God help hiht destroy hi that if she decided to walk, he could do no o "I’ve missed you, Jaci I’ve ached for you We deserve to see where it could go"

"And if I grow to care for Chase the way I care for you? What then? I wait and watch as he goes to another wo for more pain?"

Cam shook his head at that He knew better "It won’t happen This is for the pleasure, for both of us Chase cares for you as a friend, the sa, no otherto fill you like I do"

It had to be that way, because he knew no other woman could fill him as Jaci did Despite the short ti parts of him that he didn’t know had been e for her

"I need more," she whispered as his head lowered, as his lips touched hers, caressed hers "This isn’t going to work the way you need it to"

"We could try" He laid his forehead against hers and stared into her eyes, pushing the pain back

Jaci closed her eyes and sighed She was going to do this Move in with Caain It had hurt too

She was ss, no ht the, this need that bound the it Tired of fighting herself over it

His lips caressed hers, his thick lashes sweeping down as he closed his incredible eyes

"Let us love you," he said He nipped at her lips, a little pleasure-pain that relimpsed in his eyes earlier "Let me have you"

Her hands slid from his T-shirt-clad chest to his shoulders, then to the da his neck

"You’ll destroy

"I’ll love you"

And her heart raced It felt as though aher with eh her veins as her breath caught with the intensity of it

Oh God, how she needed him to love her But she was terribly afraid it was the physical, rather than the e with the word

Whichever it was, she wasn’t strong enough to resist hihtened around his neck as his lips caressed hers, patient now; deep, possessive kisses that had her lifting to her tiptoes and straining against him

Until they heard the front door slaaze traveling over her bare legs as Caer that only spiked hers

Damn him He made her ache for it, made her remee that as ained from it, as much as they were both aroused by it, it was still a way to distance himself from her

"This is what you want?" she asked softly

He stared down at her, his gaze searching, darkening, filling with arousal "I need it almost as much as I need you"

She wondered if he needed it to allow himself to have her Whichever the case, it was the pleasure, a freedom, a certainty she could be as wild, as te but pleasure She would know nothing but pleasure

As she turned to him, Chase saw the vixen she was and wondered if Ca his life upside down He was there because of what she was doing to Ca in when Ca tested by this woh he knew he shouldn’t If he stayed away, Cam would break faster, that control would fall, and Chase would know the secrets his brother hid But there was a part of hi tiive hiive him

"The two of you ae and aant and stubborn So secretive and certain of yourselves"