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"So I shouldn’t worry because you survive, what could havesarcasm "Excuse me if I worry that your luck may run out, especially when I a you for several hours today Where the hell were you?"

"It wasn’t luck, it was training" She strode to the bedroo the roo her whereabouts that

She needed her clothes It was time for her to leave The honesty, the full truth of Khalid’s past, that inti so far so she o hoh he had been giving a whole lot of himself to her up till now She didn’t live here, she hadn’t been invited to do so, and this was so for She hts in his bed, but her days were a far different ht morosely, as she made her way down the stairs It would have been nice if he had taken his clothes off, lain down beside her, and given her ined

She wasn’t going to plead She wasn’t going to bitch over it She’d never seen her inia Mathews had advised friends over the years that if a lover didn’t give his affection willingly, then it was iven his affection to woiven it to her in the saain she wished her mother wasn’t on vacation She could use some of that fe?" His tone was sharp behind her as she bent and picked up her clothing

"Hory hurt hidden

If she had to fight hiless, she reiven freely She shouldn’t have to rage at him over it

She had to repeat the refrain to herself as she dropped the robe over the back of the chair and dressed

"You could estion stopped her cold Dressed in her panties, bra, and top, she stood with her jeans in her hand as she turned her head to stare back at hi into her jeans, she pulled thes as she waited for his reply

"In estion

Marty glanced at the tense set of his body, the way he kept his arms at his sides, his eyes narrowed

"Where would you sleep?" she snapped, and zipped her jeans before pushing her feet into her sandals "I’d hate to run you out of your bed"

"What kind of fucking garowl as he folded his arer "Other than the ti, I a" She was in this for keeps, not for a away from him anytime soon with a broken heart anywithout the affection she needed fro," he told her, his expression tightening as the arrogance thickened "Do you think you can fool aht"

"I have no doubt" Pulling her purse fro the leather strap over her shoulder and faced hi but sweet

"I have to leave I need to clean ht see if Courtney wants to ht about now"

"Lunch and now dinner?" he snapped "Tell me, Marty, did you want more from this than sex? Or was that all you had in ently?"

That stopped her at the door Turning back to hi

"Do you want more from this than sex, Khalid? Because if you do, then you have a hell of a way of showing it"

Turning away fro the hall to the main foyer He didn’t follow her

She had hoped he would He could have pulled her into his ariven her more than that very experienced sexuality of his If he truly cared for her, he’d give her the explanations she needed as well He’d tell her about hih she would be stepping into forbidden territory when she considered actually asking him

He seeive hi that had to be done that ht, and at the tears that wanted to fall, she strode through the doors Abdul had opened and all but ran to her car

This was hell She needed more than the few moments it took for him to wipe the sex froave so freely She needed so from the estate she battled back her tears and reminded herself that it wasn’t over She had three weeks left to capture his heart Three weeks before she o frolared at the vehicles following her He could send others to watch after her, but he couldn’t take the time, or make the effort, to ensure that she stayed by his side

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