Page 132 of State of Retribution

“It’s true.”

“Yes, it is.He was always a spineless coward.We just didn’t know it until after my dad died.”

“And he basically confessed to selling you out to someone for money.”

“He did.”

“Good thing he’s already dead, or I might be asking to borrow your rusty steak knife.”

“My hero.”

“It drives me nuts that these impotent men are always coming for my wife, who’s smarter, quicker, more successful and everything they’ll never be but always think they could be.”

“That about sums it up.It’s very sexy to me when you call my enemies ‘fucking pussy-ass bitches’ and threaten them with violence.”

“I’m dead serious, Samantha.I’d love nothing more than to stab the lot of them through the heart with the rustiest steak knife I can find.The thought of one of them taking you from me is unbearable.”

“I know, love, but I’m not going anywhere.Whatever they’re up to, they won’t win.They never do.”

“Sometimes they do.”

“They haven’t yet, and the good news is we’re zeroing in on who might be behind all this.Let’s change the subject so we can sleep.”

“What should we talk about?”

Sam reached between them to cup him.“How about my favorite subject?The birds and the bees.”

He sniffed out a laugh.“Only you can make me laugh when I’m primed to do violence.”

She’d stroked him until he was hard and throbbing against the palm of her hand.“How about we put love before violence?”

“I’m always up for love with you.”

“You’re definitely up.”

His lips connected with hers in a hot, sexy kiss that had her ready for more in about two seconds flat, or maybe she’d been ready since the minute he cuddled up to her.

“I love so many things about this life, but you…” He bent his head to kiss her neck.“You’re the one who makes it all happen.”

“Wemake it happen.Together.”

He shifted so he was on top of her.

Sam wrapped her arms and legs around him, holding him as close as she could get him.

“You’ve got me totally trapped in your web.Nowhere else I want to be.”

“Likewise, my love.”

He teased her, pressing his hard cock against her before retreating, and then doing it again and again until she was on the verge of begging.And then he gave her everything in one deep stroke that made her come so hard, she saw stars.

“Holy shit, babe,” he gasped.“You almost ended me before we even got started.”

“That’s your fault,” she said when she could speak again.

“How was it my fault?”

“You know what you did, and I loved it.”

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