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Excerpt: Take Me

“You want to help et you out of my system…”

Jude McMillan’s sexy words ignite Kate Stockle one of them But as Jude’s former therapist, Kate’s secret attraction borders on forbidden— her fantasies of the wealthy, tormented attorney even hotter Kate knows shelooks, his chiseled-to-perfection body, his intriguing tattoo…and his dah co about Jude McMillan is everything her body craves

Jude’s desire for Kate has simmered below the surface for three years When she’s in need of a favor froement party, Jude suspects Kate’s all-business attitude is secretly in dire need of an all-pleasure evening

Precisely what he’s willing to give her

Chapter 1

“I don’t fuck indiscriminately,” Jude McMillan asserted Then winced as a sharp pain lanced through him

“I’e I listen and counsel,”

Kathryn Stockman pointedly said “And for a neist, provide first aid”

She gingerly pressed a da his opened wounds This tiht the flinch

“Did you cliht?” she asked

“One would think” He was standing at the panoraton Avenue office, his hands braced on the ledge as he stared out at the Chrysler Building It was a dreary day in Manhattan, with a thick gray haze ribboning through the skyscrapers while a light drizzle fell from the overcast sky The weather mirrored his mood, which continued to blacken in Kate’s presence

He tried like hell not to consider how detriht be to her perception of hirand sches Unfortunately, he admired and respected Kate Spent way too much time fixated on her

Jude had dropped his therapy sessions with her a year ago for those very reasons Now here he was, his dress shirt stripped off while she tended to his injuries and pried froed to keep from everyone but her

“These aren’t your typical sex scratches,” she coh she reh immune to this situation—the vicious cuts and the details of the previous evening she anticipated hiuess is they’re froerous trend, apparently—you actually lost some blood”