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She was gorgeous and stunning like this, and he i about her and this moment in his runted his approval when she obeyed and her lashes fluttered open, her eyes hazy with desire With need

“Now giveher fall so he could watch the unta just for him

Her entire body tensed on his coers, her inner , sexy h, and even as he removed his hand from beneath her dress and released her arms, she still trembled with aftershocks

She gave him a dreamy, satisfied s but instead gave him a hard, cold jolt of reality that cleared the sex and lust from his brain and forced him to think more clearly before he crossed the finish line and there was no turning back Before he did soret later

Because as ht and giving her an orgas-sized bed down the hall and fuck her a dozen different ways, he kneas a bad idea And all wrong He was h to adht now never would have happened if Kyle hadn’t shown up and stirred up angst and anger and spurred Reirl?

God, it was so fucked up, and he was furious at hi to Te reasons Because what had started out as ressive, daed man he was beneath the surface, had only backfired

“Remy?”

It was a soft question, laced once again with concern As if she kneas putting up that guard again and erecting emotional walls And he was He needed to, for her sake as well as his own

“I need to go,” he said abruptly, and didn’t miss the confusion that furrowed her brow and flashed in her eyes, chasing away the glow of the orgasm she’d just enjoyed But he wasn’t in a place to reveal what had set him off And honestly, he didn’t want to explain, because his hu he didn’t openly share with anyone

“Call ot your property,” he said, then turned and headed for the elevator, knowing as he stepped onto the lift and his gaze met Tempest’s as the door closed in front of hiet the vulnerable look in her

eyes at his rejection

He was an asshole, not just for letting things go this far but for walking out afterward, and she deserved better And once she ca

Chapter 5

The two ht of the fairy-tale ball had been an upheaval of e with Re note she was still trying to make sense of

As she sat at her drafting table and absently sketched an idea for an upcohts wandered back to that night, replaying it over in herhad been fine between her and Remyuntil Kyle had unexpectedly arrived at her apart about the situation with Kyle had set Ree in hi to see from a man who’d always been so composed around her