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Too bad it wasn’t toward you. Think that might be an issue?

“But why him?” I said it so quietly I was practically whispering. Part of me hoped he wouldn’t even hear it, dreading as I did the prospect of saying the wrong thing. “Was there… were you in the military too?”

Rick finally looked over at me, his gaze steady. He nodded slowly. There was something else there in his eyes, though I couldn’t possibly know what it was.

He was seemingly lost in thought once more, his jaw clenching, his hand gripping the top of the steering wheel savagely as if he were struggling to maintain his control.

But eventually he relaxed, a sad smile on his lips. “That’s why I wanted to do something for him today and now that you know… well, there you go.”

My heart ached for both Rick and the poor man crouched against the pitiful chain-link fence. “I… I understand now. I’m sorry if I said something stupid. I just… I didn’t know.”

Reaching out tentatively, I laid my hand over his where it rested on the gearshift. “Thank you for telling me.”

Though I didn’t know where it came from, a feeling of almost… sheepishness welled within me,

But what I wanted more than anything was for him to know how much it meant to me, how proud of him I was for doing something so selfless and kind.

“Come on,” he said, opening his door and stepping out into the twilight.

CHAPTER 27

Rick

The rain drummed relentlessly against the windows as I stood there, looming over her. I had taken her by the arm as soon as the front door closed behind us. My grip was almost savage as I hauled her to my office. I didn’t say a word. I didn’t need to.

Her mouth fell open with a surprised. “Oh!” as I tore her blouse down from one shoulder, buttons flying. Amazingly, she said nothing, not resisting one bit, as I stripped all of her clothes from her, leaving her shivering and naked before me.

I moved close, touching her, my hands claiming every inch of her. Letting her in was some sort of a turning point for us. I didn’t like how it made me feel though. I needed to reorient things back to where they belonged.

With her giving me anything and everything I wanted from her body.

Gripping her by the throat, I raised her up until she was on her toes. I kissed and gently bit her cheek, the corner of her lip. “I want you, slut. I need you. And you’re going to give me everything I demand tonight.”

“Y-yes,” she breathed, her eyes big and bright, her body trembling already.

“Nothing changes, even after what I just told you. You will do as you’re told. Got me?”

She nodded quickly, the feel of her throat swallowing nervously against my palm making my cock grow still harder. I liked that she was nervous, that she wasn’t sure what I’d do.

I liked even more that she was still deeply aroused, despite her fear.

Getting off on her being scared now? Have you lost your fucking mind?

Something was happening, all right. It was as if the process of letting my guard down, if only a little, had freed me somehow to indulge my darker needs with her.

I squeezed her upper arms hard enough to bruise her. I didn’t care. This wasn’t about gentleness, or tender lovemaking. This was about raw, animal lust. And Geneva would suffer the sweet anguish of it all night if I got my way.

And nothing was going to stop me from doing just that.

What’s happening to you?

I’d have to sort out what had happened later on. Perhaps in the morning I’d see things more clearly.

She was both scared and aroused; that was as clear to me as if I’d been in her head. Geneva was unlike anyone I’d ever met. Her complexities, her contradictions, and most of all her courage were endlessly fascinating to me.

I’d never considered the possibility such a woman even existed, let alone that I would stumble upon her—and be in grave danger of losing my heart to her.

Shut the fuck up.

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