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His thumb found her clitoris once more and applied a perfect amount of pressure A whiled with the desire to let hiive hi, her sex clenching, walking away now seemed i in her head, warning her that staying would be a et used to it Brent was speaking in the long-ter to so more serious and she couldn’t allow it Once a ed to him, she pitied anyone who stood in his way With her responsibilities weighing down on her shoulders, Hayden had to stop this or she would never be able to
"No, Brent Stop" When the words left her mouth she nearly broke down and cried As she’d known he would, Brent ceased all h He removed his hand slowly, reluctantly It made her want to cry all the ainst her back She could feel every inch of hiainst her and knew he had to be close to his breaking point In thather fro for this man
"Why, dammit?" He spoke hoarsely at her neck "We want each other Tell me why"
When Hayden answered, her throat felt so incredibly tight, it hurt to speak "It’s coain"
What could she say? I , in order to retain the wealth you so greatly resent? He would never understand Furthermore, he wouldn’t hesitate to tell Story and Daniel, ould never let her go through with it And to top it off, the neould ruin what should be a happy weekend for her friends
She reached for the doorknob "I don’t want this Stop trying to force so that isn’t there"
When he flinched at her use of the word "force," she felt a painful surge of guilt Thankfully, she was able to keep it hidden as she yanked open the door and entered her own rooainst the locked door for longnotoward the bathroo heavy crash and break in Brent’s room
Chapter Twelve
As all four friends sat down at the round, candlelit table for dinner, an irritable Brent watched Hayden choose the seat farthest from him He didn’t want to look at her, didn’t want to care about what "co to earlier In fact, the afternoon spent away froiven hies at the wall, accidentally knocking the hotel phone across the roo at the hotel pool and he’d convinced Daniel to join him at the poker tables Turns out, poker required you to sit quietly for hours on end, so that would normally make him break out in a cold sweat, but he had embraced it wholeheartedly after the scene with Hayden While he’d waited for strangers to play their hands, he’d resolved to stay away from her She’d fked with hi they didn’t set each other on fire, she’d seriously have to woo his ass And no, he didn’t care if that hts sihty roar to a pitter-patter of little elves’ feet when he saw her in the flesh All soft and glowing, dressed in her Vacation Hayden getup, he could think of nothing but how she’d looked that afternoon in her bra and panties, skin flushed from the way he’d dirty-talked her in the backseat She’d fallen through his door looking like sex on a platter and he’d thought, Christood boy They’d been seconds fro sex She’d kissed hi hi he’d said caused her to put the brakes on
So about her words, her actions afterward, continued to eat at him all afternoon He hadn’t needed to see her face to see the conflict taking place in her Her shoulders had been bunched, breathing erratic Even her verbal parting shot didn’t strike hi So what the hell was the probleo back in time, he’d ask her what the hell in this life isn’t complicated Sure, they’d spent the first few months of their acquaintance as ene else was in play But as bad as he wanted to put a naate her She would have to co" hihtly He suspected she knew that, too
Deterht-blue-vacation-dress-wearing Hayden and gave his drink order to the hovering waitress
Across the table, Daniel stared into the candle’s flah was enough Since Story and Hayden were distracted pointing out ers in front of Daniel’s face
"Hey, shithead Look alive," Brent whispered harshly, giving hiusted look "Honestly, I don’t even know you anyirl? Grow a pair, irl, re his fist on the table "You knohat? You’re right"
"You’ll have to be ht so frequently"
"About aze connected with his at the sahtly at whatever she read there "I’ll get irl"
"Great, now that your puy-whipped-ness is settled, let’s eat"
Brent spent the next half hour, as they drank wine and ate appetizers, doing his best not to stare at Hayden She made it incredibly difficult when every once in a while, just when he thought she’d disly heavy-lidded brown eyes would find hi below his belt buckle to tighten He thought of how herred wine The red wine she continued to sip in such ladylike fashion He knew better If he took her ernails into him and rob him of sanity He wasn’t the only one who felt this way No, the more she relaxed and drank her wine, the more he saw Not just desire Vulnerability The coht occurred to him Perhaps his pride wouldn’t let him pursue Hayden after this afternoon’s latest blue-ball extravaganza, but he could provoke her into coered by a challenge Whether or not she could teach him a lesson Whether or not she could handle him Maybe he’d made it too easy for her today That ended now No lanced up at hi hihts a little better