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Frustrated, she flopped onto her right side, facing away from hi her hip She flopped over to her left side and--

Adam reached out, yanked the jacket out from between them, slid a muscled arm around her waist and hauled her in so that she was spooned to him, her back to his front

Heat infused her His heat, which radiated out from his body to hers "This isn’t okay," she said

"You still cold?"

Her head was pillowed on his bicep His ar her closely, his hand opened wide and sitting disturbingly low on her belly The backs of her thighs were plastered to the front of his and…and all their other parts were perfectly lined up This made her parts very happy And that wasn’t all She could feel that his parts were happy, too

"Holly"

"No," she ed "I’m not still cold" She was on fire…

"Good Go to sleep"

Was he kidding? Hoas she supposed to sleep when all she wanted to do was turn over and…No Don’t go there She sighed and regrouped, thinking about…led just a little bit she could feel his o all taut Goodness, the man was locked and loaded She squeezed her eyes shut and wracked her brain for a new train of thought in order to keep fro his bones

Her dad was still hts from her more effectively than a bucket of ice water would have They were doing all they could to find hi all he could And he’d made sure she was safe and fed and hile he was at it

It had been a long time since she’d let anyone take care of her, and she’d have thought it would be unsettling and uncomfortable And while she’d like to think she could have handled this by herself, she knew she couldn’t have

Adah for her, and he’d done so without any hesitation at all In fact, the whole day had gone by and he’d only asked her one thing It had been a question, a personal one, too personal to answer at the tihtly "What?"

"Earlier you asked why I didn’t tell anyone aboutapart It was pride Stupid pride"

He let out a surprised breath, disturbing the hair at her teuess I just want you to understand I didn’t run off and get et back at you I did it for even ," he said

"Yeah" She sighed and adet married in the first place, so I couldn’t tell theh to keep it toas I lived so far away But then, before I knew it, it’d becoet ood reason," Adahtened "He was your college professor So at you that way"

So he knewassistant, not his student, not technically And to be honest, I wasn’t really even an official teaching assistant I was an errand girl, nothing more As for why I let him in, he was very different from the men I’d known"

"No shit He needed an AARP card"

She choked out a laugh Derek was only eight years older than she "Stop it"

"He had no business touching you"

They both left off the fact that at one time, most of Sunshine would have felt the sa her

"And what do you mean he was different from theand rugged and…tough Alpha Always so freaking alpha Derek wasn’t He ell, to be honest, he eet and gentle and approachable" At least at first "He listened to alleries and museums"

Adam didn’t say a word to this, but she felt his censure just the same "He was a whole neorld," she said

"Yeah? Then rong?"

Why had she started this again? She couldn’t remember All she kneas that she wished she’d just kept her one to sleep

Adae froood strategy, but she had him curious now "Holly"

"He was so different," she repeated softly "And I…wasn’t really prepared"

Okay, he wasn’t going to like this story, he could tell Wasn’t prepared for what? "What did he do?"

"Just about everything thatand untwisting her fingers together and he lifted his hand fro you haven’t heard before," she said "It’s a classic cliché, really Apparently, old habits are hard to break, and he was still very attached to his students Especially the fe idiot "Ah, Holly"

"I know, pathetic, right? I just honestly believed that I was the only one, that I was special But it’s okay It was a long tirown up"

"And yet," Ada the shit out of hi, "you didn’t tell anyone You didn’t seek help from your family or…" Me