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"Everyone is your duty That’s what you brothers do You protect everyone It’s what comes natural"

"You’re not my duty, Julie," he said, amazed at how easily she dismissed as between the inside just thinking I ht have lost you"

Her lashes lowered, dark half circles on the pale perfection of her skin "Luke"

He caressed her cheek "Look at

"Look at me," he ordered, his voice still soft, but with a de him see the uncertainty only he seeoing on between us, don’t you?"

"I don’t knohat youher lips with his, "you do You know exactly what Iand if that’s ant it to be, I should warn you right now You matter to me, Julie, like I’ve never let any woman matter toto hear her reply No woman had ever had this power over hiiven her more He didn’t want her objections or her rejection He wanted her acceptance, her passion, and soive it to hiue past her teeth, tasting her with a slow caress

She moaned into hisagainst his zipper, ers laced into his hair, giving him a tiny piece of her submission, so tiny, so far fro sex, not even with hihts before, and he wanted it again He wanted that invisible sign of trust, of feeling soht not put into words, but showed him instead With her body, her response to his touch, his kiss, his body buried deep inside hers

His hand slid down her back, under the shirt and around her ass before he caressed the slender dip of her waist, and cupped her nad brsts

She whi into his hand He trailed his mouth down her jaw, over her neck, to her ear

"I love those little sounds you make" He shoved her shirt upward and she helped him pull it over her head, but Luke didn’t let her He wrapped it around her hands and held the her nipple

"I can do a lot more with my hands free, you know?"

"You can have the down her stoasped as he caressed and teased the silky heat between her legs "There we go," he said "That’s exactly what I was looking for"