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She sighed “Your father agreed to the ter to pay the interest”

“Well, I’ree to this I’ to pay you double what I should”

She shrugged “The contracts were signed They aren’t renegotiable No one in their right mind would redistribute that inal agreement”

“You could tear them up” I tried to keep my eyes on her face, but it didn’t rein in s I’d always loved her legs Long legs I had stood between Kissed Massaged Felt the firmness of in my palms

“But I won’t,” she answered How did I shake her? How did I knock logic into her?

I felt the electric charge at the end of razed her shoulder She stared at the end ofht every instinct in my body to keep my hands off her

The instant ed between us I’d lied to et Kennedy For years I had let the lie take over Five years it built in Paris London Munich The lie was layered omen I never looked in a woman’s eyes and felt devotion Any of the from the sea—it didn’t matter No one else was Kennedy There were no e and no one came close to what this woman did to me What she used to do to me

The letter fell to the pool deck “Knight” Her voice was soft and sexy A call to my primal side

I cupped the side of her cheek “Don’t say another fucking word,” I growled as I took herbeneath the surface since the night I left New Orleans

My lips burned for hers in a way I didn’t knoas possible I wanted to bruise her Bite her Leave a ed breath and tried to push off ing ers into her flesh

Our tongues tangled as if ere each trying to sear the other one more cruelly My heart pounded beneath ame I couldn’t undo it I’d wanted this woed what her body did to ripped her ass fired on

How long could we stand next to the pool this way? Groping Desperate to crawl under each other’s skin

“You hate me,” she whispered I loweredthe V the swimsuit made

“No” I hooked a finger beneath the strap, it

was fastened with a figure-eight clasp “I can’t”