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The skirt cupped her ass in a way that he knew if he stripped it off her, her ass would be round, pert, and goddamn luscious in his hands And the shoes Shit, he hadn’t seen the shoes They were high heels with a strap around the ankle What the hell kind of shoes were those to be wearing in late October? At least she was carrying a coat in her hands
Michael sla her jump “Well?” He crossed his arms over his chest
Her gaze danced nervously around the roo back to his “I wanted to clear the air between us”
The anger that had seethed in his gut for nine years flooded upward out of him Michael took a step toward her, and he knew all that ire was blazing out of his eyes “Clear the air? Okay, let’s start with you answering a few questions”
Dahlia gave hi about her current deo fuck hi attitude “Okay”
“Why did you stay away all this ti me knohere you were?”
“Michael, I didn’t tell anyone,” she said, her voice soft, placating, as she stepped toward him “Only my dad”
“Why?” The torment of a bullet that had never worked its way out of his body Only his parents had ever hurt him like that, and it royally fucked him off that the one person he used to confide in about all that shit had caused an even worse affliction “You used to tellOr was that a lie?”
“No” She was more forceful now, her annoyance obvious “You know that’s not true”
He liked seeing that fire But at the saet rid of the Dahlia who acted like a whipped puppy around him because that wasn’t the Dahlia he’d known and loved “All I know is that I can’t trust a word you say Let’s et back to work”
She clenched her jaw and hugged her coat to her body “Michael, I don’t want to go back to Hartithoutpeace between us I knoe’ll probably never be friends, but I don’t want to leave here with you hating me”
The urge to rush her, to grab her and kiss her until herHis lust for her seemed to cloud his brain, but he wasn’t a stupid kid anye this woave Kiersten a chance Not a real one Because he didn’t want to be hurt the way he had been by Dahlia
And now she was standing in front of him and, despite it all, he still wanted her more than he’d ever wanted any woman
He pretty much despised her for it