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“You want me I can smell it Why deny it?”

“And you think wanting is all that matters?” she asked as she turned and moved to the cabinets for plates “There’s , Mercury”

She sat the plates on the table before facing hiain, her expression earnest

“Is wanting you so bad?”

No, wanting hiht to herself as she stared at him, ah changing from the enforcer’s uniform into jeans and a T-shirt had somehow altered his entire personality

“It depends on what the want is,” she sighed, then stared back at him intently “Let’s be honest here There’s not a chance of anything between us besides a one-night stand or a fly-by-night affair I don’t want either of those”

“You want love” He nodded slowly, as though he could possibly understand that “A commitment”

“And what’s wrong with that?” She opened her own beer and took a quick drink She needed so to settle her nerves

“There’s nothing wrong with it, Ria,” he answered softly “But whatfor you? Not that I’ I do” He suddenly frowned “But I’m not incapable of it just because I’m a Breed”

“No, because you’ve already mated I’ve read your file, Mercury Any other wo her voice soft, quiet “I don’t do second best real well”

As shein their appraisal

“Mating is a chemical reaction

,” he snapped “It doesn’t mean I’m dead or that my emotions were lobotomized”

“No, it means sex will always be just that, sex”

“And there’s sorowled It wasn’t just a deeper tone as it ith soraveled scraping of his voice