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"I asked you a question, Deacon What are you doing, and why are you in my house?"
"Tell esturing toward the other side of the house that held Keith’s rooot sick a couple lanced back at my kitchen island, as if the answer should be obvious
I looked at what it was now covered with--medicines and sports drinks and the types of foods ot all this?"
He ignored my question, and instead said, "If you don’t want me in here, you shouldn’t have made sure that I was one of the people who had a spare key"
"I told you I alking That should have been a sign not to coht, and especially not coht," he said in a low tone, and closed the distance between us a little onna walk froood reason But you can’t just take Keith from me because of a knee-jerk response I had You can’t just take you froestured around us, and said, "That I don’t want all of this"
I shookto tell ht, Deacon!"
"Yeah, you heard soonna be hard not to autoht when Keith got sick, and I just had to stand there and watch and wait because I didn’t knohat to do, and you wouldn’t let me help you Do you see this?" he asked, and threw his hand behind hian searching what Keith needed and calling randma for help, and then I stood in a store for nearly an hour staring at boxes and reading theure out if it would help hi clueless That should tell you what I want, Charlie I don’t knohat the hell I’, but I want to try I want to learn I want to take care of him, and I want you to let me help you I want you to let me take care of you" His last states, his eyes pled with me to hear every one of them
Heard, Deacon Lies received
"Just last week you said--"
"A lot can happen in a week, Charlie!" He laughed, but there was no humor behind it "A lot can happen in a day, or a few hours, or even a coupletaken froeratedly as he stared athis words, pushing them from my mind, I couldn’t Not with that look, not with those words
Because I knew both too well
The tortured look on his face and in his light brown eyes screa ripped from him Like it still was
He took a cautious step toward me, and then another "I won’t tell you that I’m in love with you, because I’m still not sure that I’ll ever knohat that word means But I know that I can’t lose you I know thatif you and your son aren’t in it I know that I wanted to tearyou walk away froe hands, and tilted my head back so he could look directly into irl? I want your heart I want it all" Deacon’skiss that I kneanted to experience again and again His arripping and teasing until I was bowing into hi dance that didn’t ers trailed just inside the band ofstilled
His hands, his ers twitched against ainst hi for underwear that he wouldn’t find
A low rumble sounded in his chest before Deacon took ently "What are you doing to me?" he whispered mostly to himself, and started to pull me closer, but I skipped out of his hold and stepped back toward the hallway leading toto hi to ht I would never be able to trust anyone with h I had tried to keep it fro the confusing ti the times when he’d broken a little piece of my heart, all I sahen I closed my eyes was him and e could be What ould be, because I knew he lovedit
Deacon’s eyes darkened as he watchedstrides didn’t falter as he lifted me into his arms and walked us toward ripped htly it was as if he wanted to memorize the feel of me beneath his hands, as if he wanted to s rushed out when my back hit the bed and Deacon’s body settled on top of ers into his back and shoulders I felt like I had to hold on to so real; like I had to feel his body to knoasn’t i this
His mouth left a trail of hot kisses down my throat as he slowly lifted my shirt up my stomach, but both his touch and his mouth stopped when the bottom of the material teased ht" His deep voice ruainst my skin It was more of a request than a question "Say wait at the last second, and I’ll wait Charlie Girl," he demanded after a short pause
"I know," I said quickly, then sucked in a sharp gasp when his head suddenly dipped and he pulled one of ue rolled around razed the sensitive skin there, sending little shock waves straight tohis hair and whi more