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It didn’t matter

He was his work

Without Elskov, he was nothing, a fact that had never made him flinch until now, until Ruby

He fisted the shirt tighter in his hand and squeezed his eyes shut to keep hili to be er?”

“Why?” Her arht of her shoulders and then slowly in broad circles lower “Do you need tihts?”

The i her tits, clinging to hard nipples, sluicing down her belly to the soft, pink cleft between her legs Set hihts? His cock ached, the tip already wet for her, and it took every bit of self-control to stop hi her wet, naked body against one wall, and giving them both exactly what they wanted

Set hihts? She knew better

“I’m not sure I can do that while you’re this close to me” Or farther away He’d wanted her since she’d strolled past hi like sin

She stilled her ar it lower “Watch out, Lucas, that sounded an awful lot like the truth”

“It slips out every once in a while” What was the use in denying his hunger for her when she’d see the truth pressed against his pants as soon as she stepped out of the shower? For thatit? He opened his eyes and turned to face the glass bricks separating theht and his dick hard He could watch without touching, without falling The entire world shrank down to the flashes of her creamy flesh, distorted as they were, as she turned under the warm spray It didn’t matter that the vieas partially obscured His brain filled in asand his desire added in the fantasy

She tilted her head back, the long column of her hair became a partially obscured et tired of it? The lies? The pretending?”

Deflection came naturally “I could ask the same of you”

“If you did, I would tell you I am tired of it I’m tired of it all—the endas” Weariness crept into her words, marrow-deep exhaustion at the bullshit of it all “At least you were up front, in your oeird hen you black back here”

“That’s…” He searched for a word, but everything he came up with sounded harsh about her family, her circumstances, her life, and he drifted off