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“There are only a few shades of difference between friend and foe in the Point Sometimes the same person plays both roles”

The tension between us popped and cracked like it was a living thing Electricity arching and bouncing from me to her and back to me

“Reeve, come here” My voice dipped low and heat started to pool thick and dense in my veins

She cocked her head to the side and narrowed her eyes at ave you your hour, Titus I don’t think I’ht now I know you want Roark to make his move I know you’re furious he ala is a pawn”

Shit I knew she was pissed about the s, and even with that she had stayed with rab her and put her under me forever

“You aren’t a pawn, but I am an idiot Look, when I walked in that door I had soon in my head” I trailed off and took a deep breath “I was barely holding on waiting to see if Bax was going to make it, and then he opened his eyes I had to explain to all the people thatwith our lives I had to tell Bax he has another half-sibling out there besides me, and this one wants hio somewhere and that somewhere was you I wanted you, Reeve I ca back home or to the apartment in the city I screwed up, but what happened between us is veryto do with him”

She wrinkled up her nose like she was considering the validity of what I was saying to her So I held out a hand in her direction “Come here and I’ll prove it to you The s are dark There is no one in this room but you and me I want you whether we have an audience or not I’ll show you if you just come here”

She avering Her eyes told me she wanted to take those few steps that separated us but the way her body was stiff and the way her hands involuntarily curled into tiny and fierce fists toldmy assertion that our previous interlude had been based on lust and overwheleance ThatNow that I wasn’t sleep-deprived and strung tight with too many emotions to name, I knew that in this e for what Roark did to my brother

I asked her softly, “Have I ever given you reason to doubt ?”

Her fingers finally relaxed a little and she took one step closer to ”

“I don’t have any kind of hidden agenda here You knoant you and that it’s coet at Roark I can ad pretend when it ca like ere attracted to each other and that so between us was bound to break loose Now that it has, I’ot me”

She took another step closer and reached out her hand so that her fingertips brushed mine “It’s not the want that’s the issue, Titus It’s everything that’s more than that”

She wasn’t wrong but I couldn’t think about that until Roark was off the streets That was a different battle that was going to have to be fought and I didn’t knohat kind of shape the warriors were going to be in when it was ti Since she was close enough to touch now, I snagged her wrist and pulled her so that she was standing between s My dick twitched happily in her direction, and I put my hands on her hips and leaned ht below her breasts She tunneled her fingers throughto soothe entle way she handled me had the opposite effect Itto do