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Sophie threw her head back and held onto hi for rodeo queen and he was the prized bull that was going to clinch her the title Jake’s roar of pleasure set every nerve in her body to tingling as she called out his naain, she realized that somewhere in there he must have rolled them over to cradle her in his arms

For severalpeople wrapped around each other Sophie felt she could stay like this forever No need for food or clothes or words Just Jake’s arainst hers

Jake had spent his entire life on guard against pain, failure, disappoint hiive in to a hope he’d sworn as a kid never to let hi?" She was slowly tracing the inked arer

He tensed before he could will hiive his discomfort away, and she pressed a kiss to his chest "Don’t worry, it’s nothing bad At least, I don’t think it is"

She lifted her face to look up at hiht at how beautiful she was He kept thinking that, after all these hours they were spending together, he’d get used to it soon

Considering he’d never been able to get used to it as she’d grown froirl to woman in the past twenty years, he supposed he should just man up and accept that he never would

She was that beautiful to him

"What is it?" he said, the realization of just hoerfully the wo the words co about your tattoos" She slid the tip of one finger over the Celtic dragon tail that ran froe "They’re beautiful I’m sure theydrilled with a needle for hours hadn’t hurt nearly as much as his father’s punches had At least the tattoos had h the Celtic warriors of the past were in the wings waiting to help him when he needed it most

"Tell me what they ain "Please"

Did she know that he could never refuse her anything if she looked at him like that and asked so sweetly? Did she have any idea just how tightly she had hier, that even as a bitter ten-year-old boy he’d been held captivate by her?

"That one is a Celtic dragon"

"We’re always so busy with--" She blushed "I’ve never really had a chance to see the whole thing up close" She slid her fingertips over the tattoo, her breath war What does it symbolize?"

He’d never shared the symbolism, or his reasons, with anyone else Had never even been teon"

"What about this band around your arth of a warrior"