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Her hand slashed up, the flat of her palm held out to him so decisively that he sinal for complete silence It was al to do with the attack and everything to do with soht upside the face," she inforined was the co for

Because he wasn’t in the least chided Hell now, his dick was straight up, as hard as iron, and throbbing with a force he’d never experienced before

The need to possess her, to have her, to stoke that wild, brilliant light in those dark gray eyes was suddenly almost irowing stronger with no peak in sight Each day, each hour, each moment he ith her, and he only wanted herslapped upside the face with it, lollipop"

Sierra caught the rakish sound of his voice, the carnal glier in those wild violet-blue eyes, and felt the defiance brewing inside her rising

It had soance Never had John shown this side of himself so clearly It was nor

Now, it see it hard to breathe, hard to think of anything but the er, and the need to claim him

She was sure he thought he was clai her There was a male superiority about hie

"And what do you think you know?" she snapped back "Trust me, John, when it comes to me, there’s so little you know that it’s not even funny"

"I know you love me I know you’ve loved me most of your life and you’ll always love me That I know for a fact"

Sierra froze She could feel soh her heart He knew that, and yet, he’d left her?

"How long have you known?" Her breath stilled in her chest There didn’t sees

"Hell" He breathed out roughly as he stared back at her, his fingers plowing through the overly long strands of his hair "This isn’t where Ifault, and I’m sorry as hell"

She shook her head "I don’t want your apology You didn’t tell Marlena to make that decision and you didn’t ask her to screw around on you I want to kno long you’ve known that I’m in love with you"

She had loved him all her life; that was no less than the truth He was her first love, and no matter how this worked out, no doubt John would be her only love He would be an incredibly hard act to follow for any ain "I knew the first night you were here and you gave yourself toattacked I know you, Sierra, you wouldn’t have done that without a trust that goes with love"

"According to you, I’ll fuck anything in pants anyway," she burst out "How did that tell you any da to her, he caught her upper are of her furious gray eyes

"I’ve never said that," he gritted out between teeth clenched in fury "I never suggested anything so vile of you, Sierra"

"You may as well," she cried back "You believed every man who ever claimed to have been in my bed As far as I’ht"

"Sierra, you all but lived with those threeto pull his own hair out as soon as he fucked the defiance out of her te little body "And what the hell does it ainst you?"

She tried to jerk out of his grip Not fucking happening He’d been daht over him this time Her temper had always infuriated him even as it fascinated hi this argument

"Do I think you what?" She was incensed and coive a damn if you did? No, jack-ass, my problem is the fact that I didn’t sleep with them"

The words were out of herher to folloith a quick, "I had better taste in men"

His brows lifted That look on his face was co

"Baby, I really don’t care who you slept with before lared down at her in determination "Who you sleep with now is all that ed to turn this around? Where had it gone so impossibly crazy?

Sierra, John ad with her further, he decided that the best way to convince her exactly how possessive he could be was to show her

His lips covered hers as his head bent, his arainst his harder, broader forainst him Like the most perfect bit of passion he had ever had in his arms

Sweetly curved lips parted beneath his, a te hi him to possess her