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No, but he wasn’t spilling all his deap, too"

"Which is -up than hers, I’d bet What else?"

Thorpe glanced at his crappy burner phone, wondering where Logan’s call was that Callie had reached Vegas all right If Logan didn’t call in five, he’d ring the for to Sean

"So it’s uess thathas et possessive after I entered the picture? You’re off relationships because of the ex, so you tell yourself that you don’t want Callie But you don’t want anyone else to have her, either You’ve got your head up your ass, Thorpe It’s not fair to her"

Sean’s words echoed Lance’s and rang a little too true Damn it if he didn’t want to punch thebusiness"

"It is if you want to know anything else in Callie’s file" Sean gave him an expectant s he could s of his headache He really wanted to toss Mackenzie from the vehicle, but that wasn’t in Callie’s best interest She had to be priority number one "At first, she’d barely talk to me After she’d been at Do de, but Callie was a pure novice I didn’t know if she was truly sub because she needed a job I found out quickly that she was Our che I’d ever experienced It shocked me"

"So you backed away?"

"No I should have, but Callie was far more sub It wasn’t long before I used her for every deive myself to touch her She still kept her distance more often than not, but damn, the way she responded toan exclusive sub

"Then I atching soram one day They showed a picture of Callie at sixteen, the same one you have on your phone It all clicked I hoped I rong, so I invented a new excuse to touch her and see if she had a scar on her hip where that bullet got her"

"And when you found it, you cut off all but the most professional contact" Sean didn’t phrase it like a question He knew the answer

Though Thorpe didn’t like being transparent, he supposed his motives weren’t that hard to deduce

"Yes She was always going to leave me It was just aCallie, Thorpe realized just how attached to her he’d become And it had scared the hell out of hi an absolute bastard

God, didn’t he sound like a pussy, afraid of his own eain after your divorce"

Sean didn’t know the half of it

"So you with her" Thorpe let out a deep breath "I realized then that allwaste Happy now? Can we change the subject?"

"Almost" Sean cut a stare over at hi to risk your heart for her? Because if you’re not, you shouldn’t bother fighting reed that she’s not meant to be alone"

Thorpe wasn’t sure what the hell he was going to do He wanted to fight for herbut as best for Callie? "You’re not entirely prepared to handle her"

Sean crossed his arms over his chest "What does that mean?"

"If you’re really a Do You’re a bit too lenient with the girl Sometiive it to her and let her top from the bottom" Thorpe tsked at him "I’ve also noticed that you’re not coeon If we find her, are you going to be willing to expand your boundaries to be what she needs? If not, you should leave her to nant "Fuck you I ed pervert for two decades, but I’ on to Callie"

"Pfft" Thorpe rolled his eyes "You’ve been at thiswhat? Less than a year?"

"Actually, I got interested a couple of years back, went to a few clubs in Florida with sonet my kink on"

Thorpe opened hisre They both pounced for it, but he was closer and pressed the button to answer the call "Logan?"

"Put it on speaker," Sean dean asked

Feeling a supreme irritation that damn near choked him, Thorpe hit the speaker button and laid the phone on the console between them "Yeah"

"I’m here," Sean advised "Is Callie with your friend?"