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His lips thinned, and his gaze was unflinching as he responded in a devastatingly icy voice “I don’t intend to”

“So, we have until late Nove between us out of our systems?”

“Vicki, we don’t have to do this We can forget tonight happened and carry on If we do this, it’ll be on otiation And I don’t think you’ll like that”

“What are your terms?”

“Sex Strictly after hours We have to be discreet, which means no one knows No public displays of affection No s Because there will be no feelings involved If you don’t think that’s for you, then we stop right here, okay?”

Vicki stared at her hands, one thu at the cuticle of the other It was all so cold and clandestine She wasn’t sure if she could do that If she wanted that She wasn’t sure hoould make her feel about herself About him

If she did this, she still wanted to like and respect herself when it was over She wanted to like and respect him as well She lifted her thumb to her lips and nibbled at the cuticle as she watched hi back at her, eyes dark, breathing unsteady If not for his swollen lips and the flush along his stark cheekbones, he would look completely unaffected by their physical encounter earlier His hair was too short to be mussed, his clothes were still in place and unrumpled While she stood in front of hiled hair, flushed features, and wearing nothing but an oversized hoodie

She worried that it would be a h with it He would likely sail through the next several weeks and ee from it unscathed and unruffled While Vicki would be left completely undone by him

She wasn’t sure it orth the risk

Chapter Thirteen

Vicki sed, the sound loud in the silence of the apart on her lower lip instead She could still taste him there…decadent and delicious

If she passed on this opportunity—if one could call it that—she would never taste hi inside of her She would never see him naked And she desperately wanted to see him naked

Her eyes ran over his big body, and she was gratified to note that he had an erection again The sight of hi and helped make up her mind

“I’d like to—” God, was that her voice? It was throaty, hoarse…she sounded like she sain “I’d like to add my own term to yours”

His eyes flickered, and she was allimpse of relief in them