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“To on the condo We should have someone pull all the carpet out of there and put in hardwood” One of her pale eyebrows arched sexily and she gave et blood off of hardwood than it is to get it out of carpet”

I just stared at her until she grabbed my hands and put them purposefully over her bare breasts

“Stop acting like I’ to fall apart, Race At first it eet, but now it’s starting to annoy me”

I gave the full globes a squeeze and rubbed my thumbs over the velvet-soft tip of each Her nipples puckered fast and hard at the sweeping touch and I told her, “I don’t necessarily think you’re going to fall apart, but you went through a pretty major trauma and that had to have affected you I just want to be here for you if you need me”

She lowered her face to ainst mine

“I don’t feel bad It sucks Dovie had to shoot soot hurt, it sucks Karsen had to witness all of it, and it really sucks that ot drunk and set all of this in uilt over the fact that he’s gone and all of us are still here”

She sat up and reached behind to wrap a hand around my dick, which ay s to do whatever she wanted it to do

“Race, if we’re going to do this—, then you have to trust that I can handle this stuff I barely survived a deranged stalker who spent a year pretending to beaddict and more than likely on the run from my boyfriend, my best friend is Annie Oakley and lives with a car thief, and my little sister has a full-blown crush on an ex-con that looks like he kicks babies for fun I can handle all of that and I will handle whatever else comes our way Okay?”

“Okay” It caroan because she startedher thu up with excitement If she could handle it, then I could handle it, and if this was the end result, she wouldn’t hear ain

She scooted over so that she was kneeling atover avein anticipation

“But the fact that you want to be there forup, really turns s to you”

That h I almost choked on when her warm lips took the place of her hands and she sucked allflesh into her et her dirty, to ruffle her feathers and thaw some of that chill that seemed to be around her Now, as she worked ue, I understood she was perfect, so daet dirty orit out in her I made her bold And all I could do was thank whoever it was that had been looking out for us all this time for that, because as she e of my control, she never looked away froirl that was not just my balance, my compass, but she was also ave her, she would turn around and give it right back to me

She added her hands to the s, and wrapped one around the base ofthe sensitive underside ofabout it all and just appreciated her and us as I let go and she caught me

Chapter 19

Brysen

IT TOOK A FEW weeks to get the condo back in a condition that didn’t rese the floors out, Race decided he wanted to get rid of all the furniture and replace everything so that there were no re ht break, but each time he took me to bed, and each day that passed where I didn’t fall apart, he settled down more and more I was determined to show him and rindto be with Race and we both knew it In all honesty, I really was okay Drew had stalked me, very nearly destroyed ht about it hard enough, I could still feel his fingers around my neck as he tried to take ood person Even if he had a lot to be furious at s