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He immediately stilled at her confession For the past seven days, he’d worked overtime and it had been pure hell He’d worked cattle by day and stood watch at night If he wasn’t at the es, thefamilies

The McCoys hadn’t wasted any ti the memorial for their fallen friends and family members It was a sad day for the McCoys but it was a day of reckoning for Sable Nicholas wanted her to enjoy it

“What tiht have kept her up until the wee hours of theand he didn’t pry He’d ask Mac later Harley and Trevor had spent the last two days with Sable, so if anything had happened, Mac would be the first to know

Harley wanted those bragging rights

Nicholas wanted thean had told them she was there in Trouble, Nicholas had embraced his fate

He and Sable were destined to be together He wasn’t sure where the others stood in all this, but he was certain of one thing—she belonged to him

If there had been any doubt whatsoever, it went away the second he saw her in Doc’s infir Even now, it pained him to look at her swollen cheek, the reminder of what she’d endured, the kind of monster she’d been forced to face alone

“How are you feeling?” He sat next to her and curved his arm over her hips

“Better,” she replied playfully, running her fingernails up and down his forearm A heated look of lust stamped its place in her expression as she caressed his skin

He narrowed his gaze suspiciously “How much better?”

She rolled to her side and he adentle slope of her curves, the way his liainst the small of her waist She shot him a devilish smile and used her teeth to rip open a packet of sweetener

His eyes hazed over as he thought of her ripping open another package, a ar in her coffee, unrolled the spoon fro?”

“How much you could sweeten me up with just one kiss”

She took a sip of her coffee and her eyes twinkled with mischief “Just one, huh?”

“One” He held up his index finger