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Tinker shook her head, raising her hands to push against ht her hands, pinning thee here, not her Then I leaned forward, our lips so close I felt the heat co off her

“I’ve been watching you twitch that ass of yours for too long,” I whispered “You sit out on that pretty little porch of yours with your friend You pretend you aren’t scopingtiet it”

Covering herher as my hips attacked hers She tasted better than I reet inside in the next five seconds, it ht kill me

Making that happen would require pulling away long enough to shove that robe of hers out of the way This sucked, because I wasn’t sure I could do it The thought of pulling away for even an instant was alling with rew more frantic

My hand caught her ass, pulling her into my body

Tinker bit ue

Hard

I jerked back as we stared each other down, chests heaving Then she spoke

“Asshole You lied to me”

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

TINKER

Cooper’s face—no Gage’s face—was flushed and his eyes were hard with need My head was spinning and , because the lust I’d had for hi cos, I wanted him inside me so bad that I could hardly think

It’d be so easy

Just let him do it, I whispered to ood You’ve suffered soYou deserve this

Maybe I did deserve it, but first I deserved so answers

“You lied tomyself to retake control, each breath a triumph of focus

“Yeah, I lied to you,” he repeated, the words cold, alhed over dinner with Not even close He was harder, and there wasn’t a hint of any real emotion in his eyes Lust? Definitely He wanted me as bad as I wanted him, of that I had no doubt But this wasn’t the Cooper I’d come to know over the past feeeks This wasn’t theor who’d h to get caught on video screwing a stripper

He definitely wasn’t the same man who’d followed Talia around like a puppy when she crooked her finger He was right about one thing—he’d lied, and not just with his words Every interaction we’d ever had was fake

“Let o,” I said, my voice cold

“Or what?” he taunted softly