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Settingtoward her "I can’t just stop a shoot so I can check up on you You told an, I’ve been going out of otten in a wreck, if you just decided not to cohlike a dick to my client because of you, do you realize that?"

Her smile faltered "I’ for you to turn aroundand right now, Coen, I’ with you I’ve been here for almost an hour, but because you didn’t notice ht I could tease you about it"

"Don’t try to--­"

"I’uy and ask hi into his red shirt, and aved at each other! I just didn’t want to bother you during your shoot, so I waited back here and watched; I’ you would turn around, Coen, I swear to God"

My breathing was ragged, and at soainst the back wall My head understood that she was safe, I could see her, sainstfrohto her, and then her playingruffly, "What are you doing to an?"

"I don’t knoh--­I’m sor--­do you want me to leave?"

"No, I don’t want you to leave I want to knohy you’re consu me this way I want to knohy you’re all I can think about Why the thought of so me up, can completely ruin me like this I want to knohat it is about you that hasturned around for the first time in my life"

She touched the side of my face and put pressure there until I looked back to her, and when she spoke, her voice was soft and filled onder "I’ve avoided men for six and a half years, Coenwhat is it about you that has ain?"

I pressed my body closer to hers and droppedabout you scares roundher see an"

"Don’t You know you and your demons don’t scare me" She shook her head slowly "What you can do toyou into our lives can do to usthat is what scaresthat rab Parker and run"

"Or ainst her lips Interlocking our fingers, I raised our hands above our heads and pressed theainst the wall "I respect you for what you’ve done for hi scared for your son But I know that if you let an’s eyes met and held ht my free hand to cup her cheek

"When I met you, I already knehat you caet froan I want to see e can be together, and I know that includes your son getting to know uy to him," she confessed after a few silent seconds, and I smiled

"Technically, you’ve already introduced us, and we already know he likes an’s eyes narrowed and I brushedyou asn’t afraid of your walls or the fact that you have a son"

"Is that what you’re doing?" she asked, and a ghost of a sue and squeezed hter around hers when she opened her ainst her lips

"I’ed, and when I looked at the heat in her hazel eyes, I knew the direction of the conversation had changed

Her brsts ainst my chest with each breath she took, and when I looked down to her parted lips, it was her turn to squeeze h up on the wall With the hand that had been cupping her cheek, I ers down her throat, andbeneathers continue a trail down to the low cut of her shirt, and pulled it down evena line of openers had just taken, I took one of her brsts in h the lace

Reagan ers dug into my hand almost to the point of pain when I raked my teeth across her nipple

"Coen, please," she whilide down to the top of her shorts, and had just started trying to unbutton them when I reainst a wall Releasing her shorts and breast, I moved my ht her shirt