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hould be fired and blacklisted I have no doubt that when unbridled, Senator Jackson has all that power He hts, their blue sohtful

He grabbed her chin and forced her to look hier?”

“I can’t let that bother me”

“That’s not what I asked,” he said, feeling fear flare through his gut

He’d known his share of power-hungry dignitaries and rulers a the to eli that his reporter was underplaying the danger she was in, that this Jackson was not a htly

If at all

“He’s not tried anything since I got here That’s all I know I think he was happy to basically buryfrolint now back in her eyes That worried hi to be brave but quite another to be downright foolhardy “I just am in journalistic hell”

“But there are worthy stories here You can tell people about the gallery, about the e’re doing to help with the hidden people of Abu Dhabi There are stories everywhere, things you can see even before you return to DC, things that you dismiss from the surface Everywhere has stories, even the vapid and fashionable”

“I think I’ to realize that—that there’s so much more beneath the surface,” she said, her voice a throaty purr, like a siren in some 40s film “I wouldn’t have seen you”

“Then that would have been a tragedy,” A the worry about his brave reporter away for a bit longer He’d put soardless of what she wanted After all, she was currently his and no one hurt those he cared about But for now, he had other plans Nefarious plans in his oay “But I do think you need to find that there are stories everywhere I think there are, and what I want to knohat’s underneath that dress of yours, reporter”

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A off his robes, he let the fabric fall to his feet and stepped away fro her lips with anticipation and interest She’d been right in her estimation of his body—his shoulders were broad, his skin so tawny and gleaht pack so apparent that she could have done laundry on the, taut roin Already springing froid and ready for her

Licking her lips again, she divested herself of her own dress and started into the bath, relishing the heat of the water as it kissed her skin Amanda watched as he entered the bath as well, his erection visible even through the bubbling water It had been too long since the lap dance and far too long since yesterday, since he’d made her come and shattered her

She needed hiain

Needed to feel ers in her channel