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“I told you no—that applies to both Emotionally, I’ve never allowed myself to be in a vulnerable position”

Until now

Because I clearly couldn’t control what transpired between us He’d proven that when he’d tied ed him for more Until I’d absolutely had to touch him or die

He led me out of the cantina and across the courtyard He stalked, I tried to keep up When ere almost at the archways of the entrance, I pulled lared at me

“I don’t care if he knows,” he said of my father

“I do”

His jaw clenched

“Dane,” I said, hearing the co I don’t knohat’s really going on with us, except that I can’t see about you”

I winced at that particular confession

His jaw loosened and his bunched shoulders relaxed “I don’t have a problem with that”

“What do you have a problem with?”

“This isn’t exactly familiar territory for me, either, Ari But I don’t kno to hold back when there’s soo after it”

“Regardless of consequences?” Not that I really thought he’d suffer repercussions froree of involve too personal He was powerful and very much in control of his environh with him to state it as fact

I faced the firing squad alone Not exactly a coht

He said, “I evaluate the risks But this is soers you think it poses to you This is inescapable, Ari Even you have to admit that”