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She wanted hiet over his pain, not drown in it

With nausea setting in, she dropped her hands and curled her legs underneath her Looking to Porter, she noticed the creases around his eyes Souished He appeared wiser, even more authoritative than she reh e-ether for dinner, she hadn’t seen Porter in a nearly a year

Now, sitting next to him, it see the sane he alore Where Presley was her best friend, Porter was the ot each other She felt safe with Porter More important, she kneithout a doubt he’d always have her back

His presence now spoke to that level of friendship Aidan ht, but Cora kneasn’t doing it for Aidan He loved Cora, and hearing she ht him here

That concern storh the depths of his eyes

He leaned against the couch, lacing his hands behind his head “How’s your family?”

“My parents are good—retired and relaxing” Sainst the leather She also knehy he was doing it—he was taking soet a read on her “Cassandra is on her third kid and living a very vanilla life”

Porter snorted, laughing “Does your sister still live in Vegas with her very vanilla husband?”

Cora nodded “Yup”

The hard rock song drifted through the speakers, as the shock of what Aidan had done sht she had issues with hi she wanted

She stared at her ex-Dom, who studied her closely Under his stare, ht her so much about BDSM, and about what it truly meant to submit to a man Hell, he had laid out the foundation of the submissive she was today

By the hard set of Porter’s gaze, and the confidence all but oozing out of hiured he’d become more experienced in the three years they’d been apart To her, it was as if she stared at a Club Sin Master, a well-trained Dos BDSM One who kne to handle a submissive, even a sassy one like Cora

Porter had always said, “A weakDom knows exactly how to le tilares and smart mouth had worked on him, nor do they work on Aidan

The difference between the two Doms? Porter’s touch never had the effect of Aidan’s; they didn’t shake the foundation of her world His expression didn’t freeze time, and his mastery didn’t make her nearly as heated In Aidan’s co powerful

So she allowed herself to be hurt over, because she couldn’t get enough