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"Jase," she said, the neediness of her tone alet your inner wounds Let me feel what I haven’t felt in years: pleasure

"Brook Lynn, I can’t--I shouldn’t I--"

He turned abruptly and stalked back into the kitchen

She pushed out a shaky breath Despite what had happened outside--or maybe because of it--her fascination with this ined his warrior hands all over her, hisin their path, and nearly slid off the couch

He was a puzzle He was daed by his past He had secrets, and he would die before he admitted he needed her He may not have realized it, but he’d leaned into her every ti her what his expression and tone had not

Butthere was Jessie Kay There was also the date she had with Brad, the one she’d thought to firm up later today However, they hadn’t actually set a date, so she could get out of it pretty easily

Should she?

And what about Jase’s stance on happily-ever-afters?

The guy was clearly more of a fixer-upper than she’d ever realized, and she’d sworn off fixer-uppers for all of eternity

The end result ht make all the orth the effort

She rested her head on the back of the couch and closed her eyes, picturing Jase and Brad side by side What she wanted versus what she thought she needed Passion against co to kiss her and shied away fro to kiss her and nited in her veins as her nipples drew up tight and arousal dampened her panties

A few minutes later--surely that was all the tigently stretching over a cloud

"Sleep, angel"

"Jase" A breathy sigh escaped her as she realized he had carried her to bed "Want," she ad so but sensation existed

"You’re going to be the end of entle hands s, but just as she leaned into the heat, it vanished

Her eyes popped open The bedrooh there was a crack in the blackout curtains, no sunlight seeped through Hours looth of Jase’s silhouette--he hadn’t walked away

"Co for him