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Your body in exchange for your co interference from me All I need in return is you At my command For my pleasure

He could do that Stop all the digging he’d been doing in her co for weaknesses to exploit Offer her payment And claim her body as his reward

And he would have beco he hated

Trading favors Taking advantage

No He would not allow it He would not give hih the hell

He had very little soul left It cost to get where he was And what remained was scarred beyond repair But he would not surrender the rest

His body throbbed with heat, tormented him with a taste of what could be

No Passion was the road to destruction It was only through control that he would ever find satisfaction That he would ever be able to find some sort of answer, some sort of peace, for the torment inside him

CHAPTER EIGHT

JULIA WOKE UP groggy and twitchy Roo to be extremely problematic First off, the man slept in his underwear Which she hadn’t noticed when he’d gone to sleep on the couch, he’d laid down before she had, and had been covered with a blanket

But then, he’d gotten up before her and the sound of hi out of bed had woken her up, and she’d opened her eyes just in time to see him, his bare, muscular back and his butt, oh, dear heaven, his butt, in nothing but a pair of stretchy black briefs that hugged the contours of his body in such a way that there were no longer veryinto the bathroom

Then he’d exited the restroo her a clear outline of the rest of his…secrets, in addition to sculpted abs and chest, dusted with just the perfect amount of dark hair

He was like a walking female fantasy, conjured from her most base desires A real s that came with a healthy dose of testosterone

She’d never craved those things before, not at a real visceral level, not like the sight of him made her crave them

Because she didn’t let herself She hated to admit it She liked to pretend that Michael, that the assault, didn’t matter in a sexual context Because in her head she knew sex wasn’t like that She knew that most men wouldn’t hurt her like that She knew it