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Chapter One

CONFESSION

Those who are meant to be yours

will always find you

“WE MEET again, Mr Thornton”

A shiver of awareness raced up Julien Thornton’s spine as he stood in the jail cell of a don LA police station where he’d been thrown around an hour ago for public intoxication

He didn’t need to turn to knoas on the opposite side of those steel bars That voice was the one he’d been hoping to hear when he’d eneric voicemail That voice? It had been on his mind since the last time he’d heard it, nearly teeks earlier when he’d met—and attempted to steal the car of—a man who called himself Priest

Julien pivoted on his heels, and when he did, he realized that he’d grossly underestimated the impact that Joel Priestley had had on him the first time around

Oui, he hadn’t been able to stop thinking about hiht’ve purposely provoked the police officer tonight hoping he’d end up needing a lawyer But Dieu, he’d forgotten the way Priest h his veins

With auburn hair, storravitated toward like acould prepare a person for the powerful energy Priest exuded Not to mental stare of his

But Julien had no one to blament but himself Maybe if they didn’t alwaysbenders, he could have the upper hand with this ht, as he looked at the laho’d dropped him home teeks before, instead of at the police station like he’d originally threatened

Priest was as put together now, at three in the , as he had been that afternoon in the alley Suited up in a tailored navy number that framed his broad shoulders and emphasized the rich color of his hair, he looked sharp, controlled, and dangerous to Julien’s already unstable state ofhim up with an unreadable expression

“I’m curious,” Priest finally said, as he clasped his hands behind his back and took a step closer to the cell where Julien had spentup “Did you not understand me the last time we spoke?”

Julien clenched his jaw and wondered if Priest realized how condescending he sounded when he spoke—or just how much it turned Julien on “Non I understood just fine”