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"You were right, darlin’, he is pretty but he does need to shed and pushed the door open and since her back was to me she didn’t see it but I almost very nearly did smile It was impossible not to around her

Dixie

The knock on o to bed alawake late into the night and sleeping when the sun was in the sky Not topretty fairy tales around that taste of Church I had snuck on the side of the road I was stupid to think a single kiss was enough to satisfy the way I had been craving hi I wanted htened and shivered against ive me what I desired, but the look in his eyes warned that it was only physical on his end He would giveI asked for except for a way into that heart he guarded with iron bars and bulletproof ar for us e got to Mississippi His story hurt to hear I hated the idea of hi unwanted and I couldn’t believe anyone could ever look into those beautiful eyes and consider his mother’s choice to keep him and raise him a mistake I knew there wasa break once he got out of the service

I watched Church with Rouys that filtered in and out of the bar that htly knit fa through his own adjustht think he was a lone wolf but it was obvious to me that what he actually as an alpha in search of his own pack to lead Hea band of brothers, he roup of like-minded individuals that would watch out for each other coh water He still had that bond with Rome, but for reasons that I didn’t understand and was ure out, he held hi to welcome him into their fold, his family included

I tossed the covers off the bed and made my way to the door blurry eyed and rumpled When I pulled it open Church was on the other side looking like he had been awake for hours He even had a white to-go cup of coffee in his hand and so that sot up but obviously you didn’t get it" He sounded aled hair or my practically naked lower half No He was focused on the words "Tequila Made Me Do It" where they stretched across ht before

I shovedthat the iving Church an unobstructed view of my underwear I blushed, but took solace in the fact that this tied the end of the shirt back down so that I was barely covered and took a step back into the roo with o My sister called ht, so I had to turn et your text"

I fisted my hair in a hand and lifted the snarled one to bed with it wet There was little to no chance that I was going to be able to wrangle the curls into any kind of order I thought he would take the hint and head back to his own room, instead he walked farther intoon the dresser where the TV sat He e of s at the ankle while he watched enuine concern in his honeyed voice had h my body I spun on rabbedon the bathroom door handle, and slid inside the little roo, talking seduction that was Dash Churchill

"Wheeler told her the wedding is off He also told her she has until I get back home to find somewhere else to live Kallie hasn’t ever kept a full-ti out Also , and she’s panicking that Wheeler is going to tell the away is because she cheated on him She’s always been the baby, the one they coddled, but they love Wheeler like a son, so it’s going to be bad" I wiggled into the rest of er combed my hair It was useless The curls had taken over my head and they wouldn’t be stopped

I stuck my toothbrush inme with hooded eyes and there was tension in his shoulders and arms that wasn’t there when he walked in He looked like he had been cast in bronze by a great artist that wanted to capture what trueand hard, but there was no denying that he was also all kinds of gorgeous and flat-out dazzling

"Why do you think your sister stepped out on hiue over my now clean teeth and wasn’t surprised one bit that instead ofto taste hi to slowly drive me insane