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"Primarily, yes Also in cases when paternity is in doubt"

The gulf between us was getting wider He was pulling back fro about children and ive uided the car onto the shoulder I unbuckled my seat belt, reached over, and kissed him His lips were like fire He didn’t respond, but I tried harder, licking his lips with the tip ofto taste hiht the back of ic wrapped aroundwithtaste that burned with lust, power, and need, filledinto it The strokes of his tongue turned possessive, his fingers tangled inme to him There was a hint of menace in the way he kissed that warned et burned and then I would never be the same It ic slid over the back of asped into his h "I’lad we cleared that up"

"Do you understand ht I could, but I can’t and I don’t want to"

I brushed his cheek with o?"

He pulled me to hiic swirled along s I wanted hihts behind us

Rogan growled

A cop alking toward us, a flashlight in his hand

I crawled back into an rolled down the"Yes, Officer?"

"Is your vehicle disabled, Mr Rogan?"

"No," Rogan growled

"Then you shoulda safety hazard"

Wow Apparently we’d run into the one cop in Houston asn’t intimidated by the Butcher of Merida

"Ms Baylor," the cop said "DA Jordan says hello"

Oh

"Please move your vehicle for the safety of the public" The cop stepped back He showed no signs of leaving

Rogan rolled theup, we both put our seat belts on, and we pulled back into traffic

Lenora Jordan, the Harris County District Attorney When I was in high school, she was , she served as the last line of the public’s defense against crime, especially when committed by the Houses The first tio; she walked down the steps of the courthouse, where a raging fulgurkinetic Prined on charges of child ht up to hiht there, in front of all the caht I wouldshe seean treated her with the kind of respect one affords to a hungry tiger

"Was that a love tap on the shoulder?" I asked "To tell ht"

"I can’t A lot has happened and I need to be with my family They’ll have questions"

"I’ll wait"

"I don’t kno long it will take"