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Prologue

Kamala

“Don’t look at me like you want me… not if you don’t,” I murmur into the silence

He sits back and readjusts himself in his pants His dark eyes hold mine, yet he doesn’t answer me

The water laps aroundaround the pool in , and everyone has disappeared to get ready for dinner

We’re alone

His eyes are locked on me from his poolside deckchair position

He has no right to look ateyes

But he does

And I still like it

Ben is uard and the head of their security

Things are difficult between us, to say the least

The attraction between us wasn’t supposed to happen, but forbidden had never felt so good

Six-foot-three-inches tall with sandy hair, honey-brown eyes, and a large,ex-military

Ben Statham is one hell of a man

Fro deep infire whenever he would sneak into ht…

It led to our story beginning six o, when my sister Natasha became involved with her then-boyfriend, Joshua Stanton

I was alith Tash, and Ben was alith Josh We ca more

He was the strongover everyone

I was busy watching him

The rest of the world was concentrating onrelationship

I was concentrating on fighting the attraction, but the pull to hirew day by day

Laughter turned to conversation, conversation introduced lingering looks, and lingering looks turned to goose bumps, until one day in the kitchen pantry it happened

Ben kissed me

It was the most perfect kiss I’ve ever had

It eet, sexy, and it opened a world of passion I never even knew existed

For three weeks we snuck a kiss in where we could until, in a y passion, I asked hiht

He did

We made love Storybook love

The perfection we’d created carried on for six weeks, until tragedy struck our family As the head of security Ben blamed himself, and pulled away from me

When I needed him the most, he was nowhere around to offer support