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Letting hiest mistake she could possibly make

Lawe kept watching her His gaze was like a dominant, powerful caress she couldn’t evade

The sensation of that invisible touch never failed to leave her off balance and nervous She could feel her blood beginning to rush through her veins, her heart rate becoer and sexual desperation Damn, she needed him to leave, then she could at least have him in her fantasies

“Why are you still here, Lawe?” she asked He was destroying her nerves with the violet blue intensity of his gaze and her certainty that there were indeed e beneath the layer of icy calm

“You should knohy I’m here”

She shook her head in a tight, jerky motion Oh God, noasn’t the time for this Not while she was so tired, and so weak “I have no idea, and I really don’t give a damn”

God help her, he was killing her

If she had to be fascinated by a man at this time in her life, why did it have to be a Breed? And why did it have to be this particular Breed? There was a level of the independence inside her that he frankly terrified and she knehy

He was protective

He would smother her with layers of protection if she allowed him to do it That hat he would do with any woman he called his own Hell, even his lovers had been known to cohtened security They complained of their inability to shop, to lunch with friends, to enjoy their lives

For a ht enjoy it, but Diane knew herself and kneould destroy her Her and Lawe He could never accept danger to his woer to the woht was his mate

And he thought she was his mate

She alht

“You need to leave, I’ht,” she retorted, forcing herself to confront the onlyin her entire life

She was thirty years old, for God’s sake