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"Alone"

"Not tonight Or to you let me stay"

Forever No, she couldn’t say that Eventually he’d hat she couldn’t give When it sunk in that she wasn’t very fun in the sack, then he’d be done But until then "Usually on ht?"

Her heart beat too fast and her mouth felt dry, but she wasn’t a dummy She wasn’t about to pass up the best offer of her lifetime As she’d told him, he was her fantasy

And he wanted to sleep with her, to hold her all through the night

"How about like this?" Slowly, Yvette lay back down, then curled up against hi protectively on his bruised ribs And, oh, God, it felt right "This okay?"

His voice went husky and deep "Better than okay" He tugged her closer, kissed her head and stretched out his other ar it all seeertips up and down her bare arot to tell you There was some attempted vandalism at the pawnshop"

She tried to lift up to see hi an idiot I ran hiuess with it being e our priority should be putting upthe novelty of conversation in bed while hugged up to Cannon’s hard fraht "Grandpa left soot it"

Comfortable as she was, she knew she had to take a stand "If we’re not using the cash left to us, then I’ll have to insist on paying uess you have a point We probably need to sit down and go over everything Tipton left See what our options are"

"Thank you"

His hand continued to glide up and down her ar to work this out All of it The house The shop" He shifted, pulled her thigh up over his and settled in more comfortably "Us"

It hit her then

Cannon had coain Old habits, it seeave one small nod, whispered, "Okay," and did her best to hide the disappointment--with herself

Apparently three years hadn’t really changed anything after all

AMAZING HOW QUICKLY you could get used to so It had been only five days, but she and Cannon had quickly gotten into a steady routine