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Oh, God, she’d just hit Send!

All the blood drained from her body to pool in the pit of her stomach

Would she really have done so if Cole hadn’t walked in?

How did he always , but he always turned up wherever she was She’d resigned herself weeks ago to the fact that she wouldn’t be able to avoid hi to avoid hi pursued, stalked by a predator le cat

One that slid on his belly and seduced with his ue Just like Eve in the Garden of Eden, Aainst his powers of temptation Difficult for a Stockton to s, but one of their greatest traits was the ability to call an apple an apple and an orange an orange Stocktons didn’t lie, not even to themselves Especially not to themselves

She wanted Cole Had fro Had he married her sister, she would never have acted on that want, but he hadn’this ti for him to do just that for the past two years

She’d done what he’d asked She’d waited for him Two damn years

“I was e- my sister,” she said perversely, irritated with herself for her weakness

He didn’t physically react, just watched her “Is everything okay?”

She snorted, too frustrated to hold back what she was truly thinking fro has been okay fro has been okay from the moment you walked away froed in an unsteady breath “How could you have just left? How?”

A pause, a twitch of that perfect set of lips, then, “I’ you, Amelia Not this time I couldn’t even if I wanted to”

She inhaled a breat

h meant to calretyour way onto my ship?”

“No”

Why was she trying to pick a fight? For what purpose? She closed her eyes “Was there so you needed?”