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His first instinct was to rown comfortable with Two people who could barely tolerate each other But he stopped himself She would expect that of his to return to norhed Now that he knehat lay underneath her carefully polished surface, he’d have one hell of a ti to be let out He’d e it even If he allowed himself to consider the possibilities of what she could use him to discover about herself, he would never leave, so he de about it About her sliding up and down his cock, how it felt inside her…how she’d spanked him How he’d kind of loved it

No Don’t even think about it She wanted a one-ti different No way in hell would he open hi ridicule when he wanted irl beside him was merely an illusion Even if she came alive in bed, under his touch, he knew her true identity Spoiled, rigid, and most importantly, from a different world This is where they started and ended

Ain Stuart’s kitchen, just before she kissed hie of how she’d looked laughing at his joke earlier Eyes bright, lips tilted in a the hed withwe proirl spank me, I’d never hear the rear end of it Pun intended"

Hayden giggled For soht "You’d be the butt of their jokes for weeks Pun also intended"

"Yeah That’s at the bottoet it You draw the liney at your hiney"

Their shared laughterBrent further This Hayden, the one oofball, was beginning to feel real to hiht couldn’t lead anywhere Even if there werein her fancy town house any e, or a dirty don precinct Naked and boneless, nestled a When he felt hi for more of the best sex he’d ever experienced, Brent knew he had to get out of there

Hayden seemed to become aware of their unusual position at the sa toThe easy, languid s away

When she tugged the sheet higher over her brsts, Brent sat up and threw his legs over the side of the bed Unconcerned about his nakedness, he rounded the bed and pulled on his pants "When do I need to return this suit? I’d leave it with you now, but I don’t think the city would let me keep ht…" Hayden sat up and tucked her dark, unruly hair behind her ears She looked so fragile in the center of the enormous bed, so uncharacteristically unsure all of a sudden, that he hated hie to toss the pants back on the ground and join her again Coax the confident sex kitten back to the surface "The tailor’s card is in the inside pocket It’s a teek rental, so there’s no rush"

Brent acknowledged that with a nod and continued dressing, painfully aware of the aard silence in the rooement, he’d be back between the sheets with her in seconds

"Brent?"

He froze in the act of buttoning his shirt "Yes?"

"What did you say to Stuart earlier? In the kitchen, I ut "I asked him if he needed an explanation of the word ‘no’ That’s all"