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“I do”

Her heart slapped in her chest, blood rushed to her head, and she wondered if the reaction was a precursor to a stroke Because it had never happened to her before

“I don’t” She watched him warily now

“Dane shoul

dn’t have sent you here alone,” he told her, his voice quiet, too soft, dangerous “You’re tes a Breed has a hard ti”

And she was going to e? She was plain and she knew it She tried to spice it up with sexy underclothes and the bling Dane brought her Not always jewels So as simple as an odd piece of art found in an unknown market

She liked pretty things around her, because she knew she wasn’t so pretty She wasn’t te And despite his claie if he decided he wanted into her bed

“You needn’t play with me, Mercury,” she told him, aware she couldn’t cover that small hint of sadness that slipped free “I do my job No matter the temptation not to”

And he could tempt her He could be her downfall

CHAPTER 3

He watched her That ridiculous bun her hair had been twisted into at the nape of her neck was trying to unravel When she glanced at him, her brown eyes, almost the color of dark chocolate, were irritated Her softly rounded, crea But there were other parts of herhim crazy

If she kept twitching her ass like that, he was going to fuck it So help hi to take her to her knees, hike that plain brown skirt to her hips, and show her the folly of teasing a fully grown, hungry male Lion Breed

Mercury Warrant leaned against the wall of the s, and fought to maintain the same cool facade he’d held over the past month

It wasn’t easy Especially when she o through the files stacked there She would lean over, so one, and the ugly brown skirt wouldhand

Like his hand wanted to lobes as he watched his erection slide into the moist, silky heat below