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It s and stuff Frilly bedroom stuff Maybe stuff some flowers in vases and put the Women liked their frilly stuff

She was here, that hatelse

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Cam stood in the kitchen, his hands braced on the bar, his head lowered as he fought the need to go to Jaci He could hear the whisper of her h the cavernous apartment He could smell her He could almost feel her warlanced at Chase where he stood by the balcony doors, staring out into the heavy covering of trees that separated the building froo to her, take her now Make her scream with pleasure And that hat he needed to do Chase was as highly sexed as Ca pleasure

Except, the sudden need for so inside him like a dark, shadoave It was rife with eerous it was, because being with Jaci, alone, would open parts of him he hadn’t allowed free for twenty years

That was the reason for sharing her The need to hold back the emotions that clawed at him, the needs that filled him like demons that refused to rest He had forced back every emotion he could find within himself for too many years Jaci threatened that

And now, an unfaer threatened the distance he needed between the, desperate need to claim her, to mark her, to show her she was his He shared her body, her pleasure, because it was so fucking good, so daht never happen

But thehad snapped free inside him and he couldn’t rein it in

As he watched Chase, his brother turned to hi upstairs," he suddenly announced

Ca?" The question slipped free, and Ca it was

Chase’s lips quirked knowingly "For as long as I need to, Ca roo as I need to"

Ca until Chase disappeared up the staircase and the upper door closed softly He breathed in harshly It was slipping His careful control over the twin bond they had once shared Losing control of that was dangerous Because sohthtmares he and Chase had once been able to share so easily

He didn’t have to sleep with Jaci to take her alone, he reminded himself If he slept on the couch, then he didn’t nor as he didn’t sleep in a bed, he didn’t dreaed neck as murder filled his soul

If he didn’t sleep with Jaci, then there was no risk She wouldn’t know, and Chase wouldn’t know

And he could take her, take the woman his heart claimed as he needed to take her And that was exactly what he was going to do He pushed away froh the apart to store her clothes in the empty closet, dresser, and chest There was even plenty of room to spare None of Cam’s clothes were present The bedroom was as bare as the rest of the apartment, perhaps more so

There wasn’t even a blanket, there were no cases on the pillows, there was just a sheet, white, no frills, and rather cheap

The bed was just a metal frame Could any one bedroom be more sterile than this one? Could any one man’s life be more sterile than Cam’s?

She stored the suitcases in the top of the closet, then turned and rubbed her hands together slowly This wasn’t what she came here for, exactly At least not yet She had intended to tackle Cam later, but noould work, too She had planned this for a while, she knehat to do, she kne to do it She would just have to divert Cam a little bit until she neutralized the Robertses Once she finished with that, then she could concentrate onCam’s life a little less sterile

As she moved out of the closet, she came face-to-face with him More accurately, with his bare chest Broad and muscular, so horribly scarred, a representation of the scars that were inside his soul as well

"I need you"

Yes, she could see he needed She could see the hunger in his eyes, the darkness She saw things she didn’t want to admit to, and suspected worse What had happened to his had they done to him?

She reached up and touched the scars on his chest, her fingertips trailing over the raised ridges as she lifted her eyes to his

That darkness she had always sensed within hier and a need that was darker, deeper, than any she had gli, feeling, that need foraround it, strong and broad, heated

His head lowered, his strong teeth catching her lower lip, pulling at it as his tongue rasped against it

"Just us here" His voice was dark, dangerous

"Where--"

He laid his fingers against her lips as he pulled back

"He’s not here He can hear nothing upstairs I promise"

"What would he hear?" she asked as heher to the bed

"Take off your clothes, Jaci"

She stood beside the bare bed, staring back at him as his hands moved to his belt

He wore only his pants, dark jeans thatbeneath theed at thetiripped the hem of her shirt, and the soft, dusky rose material slid over her head and fell to the floor Her hands went to her jeans as she toed off the sandals she wore

"Leave the panties on," he told her, as her fingers hooked in the thin elastic band beneath the jeans and she moved to slide them from her hips