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Ha out the sub Master—and he knew it Pushing a sub to her boundaries and beyond under his hand—and his body—had always given hi to cast aside her cloak of security, the freedom and beauty she found would blow her mind

But taking a sub that far fed so dark in him He alanted more and more The need to believe that he’d owned every part of Juliet and to make her prove it every way he could conceive had been their downfall Maybe it was a blessing, after all, that he’d have Liam there to balance hiht of her as his responsibility, so he’d seen no reason to curb any of Hammer’s more extreme demands But Liam would watch over Raine and protect her with every cell in his body

With Liam added to the equation, however, the expectations on her would double They’d have to re her often, to keep Raine fro beneath the strain

“I’ her feelings could leave her overwhelhtened,” Hammer said finally

“I think that’s why communication is so critical It’s the first point we have to drive home with her If she’ll just share, we can erase some of her fear”

Yes, and Hammer knew that if he expected her to trust him, to communicate openly and honestly, he would need to do the same…no matter how uncomfortable it made him

“Replacing old patterns with new ones will take time” And he hated that for a million reasons, too His own i indefinitely Mostly, he hated to see her soher Granted, she wouldn’t take Juliet’s way out, but she’d proven that she would pick up and leave if driven to flee

“It will,” Liareed “One of the first patterns I want to break is her bloody bad habit of trying to misdirect with sex”

Ha not have heard theht “What did you say?”

“When I’m displeased with Raine, her first instinct is to lose her clothes and rub against me I hate to admit how often I let her distract me before I realized what she’d done” He rubbed at the back of his neck with a wry grin “She’s really daood at it, too”

“Son of a bitch!” Harabbed the ed it across the roolass startled Lia to improve his mood

“Have you lost your bloody rown a second head “Or do you just like to break things?”

“Raine uses sex as a distraction? I heard that right?”

“Yes” Lia else she throws at us She won’t be allowed to instigate”