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“All I’ve known is pain No one etinto, but I didn’t care”

Grace stopped cutting the vegetables and moved toward him

She cupped his cheeks “Stop You don’t have to feel guilty for your past, Caleb What your parents did, they are the ones at fault Not you” She raised her lips to his

“You could never love a man like me,” he said

She sighed “Caleb, you don’t knoho or what I could love There is far more to the beast than what meets the eye with you I’m interested in the man behind all of this The man who took his nephew in Thehis sister’s death, but does so on a daily basis There’s a good h to let me meet him”

Chapter Eight

“What is this?” Grace asked

“Get changed into the swimsuit”

She looked at the bathing suit that wasn’t a one-piece at all “This is a bikini”

Caleb stood in the pool She didn’t even know if he wore a pair of swied into it”

“I don’t need to get changed into it”

“Grace, I don’t like the idea of you being frightened about anything I’ to teach you how to swim”

“I don’t need to learn how to swi than the water

“You’re being stubborn”

“Don’t you have a lotthe world?”

“My empire is so well-trained it can take on the world without my presence”

“I bet”

“Coht you, but one day, Jao without?”

It was on the tip of her tongue to tell hi ter up

Caleb didn’t coave her space, but her needs, they weren’t fading She wanted hia to be used against her, but he intended to make her see her own needs and desires for what they were It eet, but it also made her have to own up to what she wanted

This sucked

Big time

She’d never asked for anything in her life The first and only orgasiven her a taste, and now all she wanted was to learn more