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“Why not?” She shrugged one shoulder “You didn’t ht at Bisu Manor when I crashed Ft Worth’s y”

Her heart beat faster in reon over her shoulder as they’d talked to her targets, the Davies-S that had kept her dress up was the silk catching on her diah and she was bared to all, fro in the salon to the valet who handed over the keys to Taz’s Porche

“This is different,” he snarled

She snorted “How?”

He crossed his ared, and stared at the thatched ceiling as if seeking higher guidance “We weren’t together then”

“Are ?” She meant for the question to come out as hard as ice but couldn’t carry it off The tre inside her

“You heard Tale man”

“Lucky you to have found yourself at a resort filled with naked people ant to fuck you” God, she sounded like a harpy, but she couldn’t help herself The need to fight back, strike first, was too deeply ingrained

“I don’t want them,” he said “I want you”

The declaration hurt more than if he’d cheered in celebration, because she wanted to believe hiutted her The last ti hen she was eleven years old, abandoned by her parents and by herself on the plane to St B’s Well, she wasn’t that little girl anymore and she sure as shit would do whatever it took to never feel that way again, even—especially—if thataway from Taz after this mission was done

Steeling her resolve, she turned to face hiet what you want”

That should have shut hirim line of his mouth curled into a smirk

“The thing is, kitten” He popped his pants button and lowered the zipper with a lazy confidence “You want me too”

Taz shucked off his pants and pushed his boxer briefs to the floor and her mouth went dry She fisted her hands Her nails bit into the soft flesh of her pal to his cock The bastard winked at her, no doubt knowing full well how right he was

“It doesn’t matter” She forced her hands to relax and et and to take down Sterling Walsh Clay wasn’t lying; the DEA will raid this place in forty-eight hours, whether we have her by then or not I’ this up because you have a hard-on about ers The cocktail party at the pool is already going on It’s out in the open, so we don’t have to worry about getting dosed with Genie’s Wish, and it’s the perfect opportunity to do a little recon I want to get a lead about where Walsh et down to business with tapping into the resort’s security feed tonight”