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"Shane," I whisper, and sorounded me in the moment All of my old demons fade into the darkness of my past

He seems to knohen it happens Maybe it shows in y, but then, and only then, does his gaze lower, raking over my breasts, a touch that isn’t a touch My body reacts, nipples tightening, breasts heavy, and the dahs

"You’re beautiful," he ravel to his tone, and when he looks at ray steel of deh blue fire to burn me inside out "And so damn sweet," he adds "It’s sexy as hell"

"Sweet is not what I want to be," I say, translating it to the pushover that got me into this mess I’m in "It’s not what I am"

He leans in close and inhales deeply "You smell sweet" He cups my face, and he caresses his lips over ue flickers pastmore before he adds, "You taste sweet" He pressestheainstto have you Ona shiver downof nothing else but hunder his touch, around the bar I a in every place he is not and I want him to be, and I reach for him, only to have hi

"Don’tunless I tell you to or I will stop whatever I’ood it feels Understand?"

"Yes," I whisper, and just like that, I’ve given hiain: control But it’s unexplainable when I have been conditioned to believe my control is what protects me, and my lack of control is responsible for every one of the many mistakes in my life It’s not just what he wants It’s what I want too

There are three sides to every story Mine, yours, and the truth

--Joe Massino

CHAPTER SIX

SHANE

E I don’t give or take lightly Nor aer to the need to escape, and I’ood at it as I a hard and fast, and getting it out of ht, or Emily, has hit the spots I know as fa her hands on the railing, I spread rip farther,the heavy starch ofthe anticipation intended to force her to think of this, and , ned with her hips, the sweet scent of her drowning ht ways When I ah, I nip her shoulder She yelps, and I lick the offended area, ainst her skin at the moan that follows She leans her head forward, the only part of her I don’t have pinned, resting it on htly chilled

She shivers and I press my cheek to hers "Don’t worry I plan to heat every chilled spot on your body" I seal that proa breath fro a kiss I don’t deliver I want to taste her, but I don’t I linger there, teasing her andfor the reach of her lips and I pull back¸my palms up her arms to settle on her shoulders, and when I look at her I know she doesn’t mean for me to see the fear in her eyes or the sweetness that she rejects because she thinks ither to let go of her control and give to me