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Dee shoved away fro a basket with coffee essentials, nudging the duffel upright with her toe, straightening the bedspread "I used tolost out on the childbirth experience Now I thank God for that scar" She turned to Jacob "ItI would have floated otherwise?"
"You’re a stubborn lady" He ade through biting Rockfish winds to get back to the hotel after her ex had left her for dead on a deserted road "I think you’d have punched through the fog before long"
Dee paused froain for all you’ve done"
He didn’t want her gratitude What did he want? She was io he would have said too important and run like hell "No thanks needed And, Dee? We’re going to find your son"
"You say that with such confidence I envy your self-assurance" She crossed to the sofa and dropped to sit beside hi screw-ups I can’t help but wonder if this is ht this on myself and Evan’s the one ill pay"
"We allwith his sister Hell, look at how he’d never ed a serious relationship in thirty-two years "Worry about your child, cry for him, shout out your frustration That’s nors On Blane"
She shook her head in mute denial
Jacob silently da Dee so wary Evan and Dee, and even Jacob, were all having to pay "Mistakes are tough to accept, especially when the stakes are so high I’ up until I find him You have to trust me to do this with you"
A spark fired in her eyes "That’s all great--" she held up a firet to be an equal partner in reclairateful for your help, I can’t sit back and count on you to do everything for e, to have soainst his chest Meh his ain, but needed to think about her She was going through hell right now, had to be suffering froe emotional fallout after all they’d learned at the police station and froht need hiht need the co about the Suburban in the water, the body near it
He didn’t even want to think about the iine how torn up she had to be The air hung heavy between them as he looked back down at her "Do you want me to sleep on the sofa?"
A smile, her first today and not much of a smile at that, but a definite tilt to her lips tipped into her cheeks as she swayed toward hi into her eyes
"In the bed, withher ar her face in an unether on the sofa for now, the bed later"
"Good Because that’s exactly where I want to be" He reminded himself noasn’t the time to talk about futures when hers was so uncertain All the same, he couldn’t help but want more from her And the more he wanted, thein one s in another Only this time, she wouldn’t let the world control her
She’d meant what she’d said She wanted to share his rooht threatened to scare the warht out of her But her every maternal instinct screa everything possible to find hiht, but she could soothe her heart and soul enough now to carry on the fight toth she possessed to cope hatever they discovered
Dee angled forward and found his mouth Jacob looped his arue with hers, exploring, tasting, deainst hi him, she flattened her tender brsts to his chest, rolled her hps against his already rigid arousal His hands reached for her shirt, and she shoved theht to lose herself if only for a few hours
Dee inched away fro to break contact "Don’t move"
His broered over his moody eyes He paused, then raised his hands in surrender Layer by layer, she tossed aside his clothes, rediscovering every patch of his skin with her ain Jacob reached for her "Dee, enough"
And again she pushed aside his questing hands "Not nearly"
"Well, hell," he growled "Then it’sthe same slow precision hich she’d tossed aside his clothes, she repeated with her own None of her prior insecurities reed off her bra, stepped froaze heated with appreciation as he watched, further firing her own need
Dee scooped his pants from the floor and pulled free his wallet A quick search uncovered just what she’d expected He’d come prepared
She plucked out the condom and braced her knees on either side of his hips Dee clasped hiuorous stroke
Groaning, he palht her down to him, skin to skin for the first ti herself along the teasped as his hands cupped her botto no roole of ars Jacob twisted at the last minute, and she landed on top of hiled until her legs straddled hirabbed her hips With a growl of frustration, she clasped his wrists and pinned his ar elusively away as the heat of him filled her Jacob’s jaw clenched as he battled for restraint She reveled in pushing hie before he’d even had a chance to touch her
He shook his hands free of her grasp and filled theht peaks She slid her hands over his and pressed while her hps rocked against hi her off hi around hers and started to flip Dee to her back Again, she resisted, her eyes sparking a mix of mischief and resolve
He stroked her hair fro her eyes "What do you want fro over his hip and flipped her to her back in a s his shoulders to secure herself the swirl of sensation