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She thinks it doesn’t affect me, but it does I’m ripped apart, cold in ways I’ve never been cold before I stay on the spot, curlingI shouldn’t Like grab her and ravenously kiss away that disappoint all the coldness icked heat

Obviously annoyed with oes to walk by rasp her bare arht to my cock

“Whatever you do, do not trust anyone right now,” I tell her

She pauses, eyes searching mine “Why do you look so worried, Blackwood? The tabloids have you running scared?”

Her concern touches a place in o “It’s trouble that I can handle” The warainst myself, I slowly release her arm “But the situation with the tabloids is a concern, especially considering whatever reason they’ve brought you into this alongside me” Truly that concernsfor her father My instincts are screa behind that, and I need to—and will—dig deeper on this “Please be careful”

“Don’t worry about ently, and her nostrils flare, as if she’s consu need to draw in my scent as much as I am hers “I’ll be safe Promise”

The last thing I see is her sh the doorway The sassiness in that sers, feelingher back into er for her

Frustrated and enduring a raging hard-on, I open the raph of her She’s a beauty in bondage, and I ache to see her up close and personal this way But I’ at the way the ht

She’s not yours to claih me

That’s when I realize I er than the tabloids

Her

Chapter 2

Ryder

Later that Thursday night, the sense of entitleoers as I make my way down the hallway of the senator’s et her offthe hefty price

I adjust the wired security earpiece in my ear, as Lee, a Blackwood executive protection (EP) specialist, says over the transarden and en route to his office”