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“Don’t,” he said huskily as he put a hand on my bare thigh to keep me from backing off. “Stay. I’ll take care of you, Vanna. Do you want me to start a fire in the fireplace? I’m not sure why the damn generator didn’t kick in, but I’ll check on that tomorrow. It probably needs to be replaced.”
“No,” I said in a sleepy voice. “I’m fine now, and you throw off plenty of body heat.”
The house was warm enough. The power hadn’t been out that long.
“Are you really okay?” he questioned suspiciously. “Is there anything else you need to tell me?”
“No. That’s it. I only get terrified when I wake up in the pitch dark all alone,” I said with a sigh. “You know everything else.”
And, oh yeah, by the way, you’re the most amazing man I’ve ever met and I’m dying to get you naked.
Okay. Yeah. That was the one secret he wasnevergoing to discover.
My body ached with a desire that only Chase could satiate, but I wasn’t willing to give up this kind of closeness with him, either.
Not yet.
I couldn’t.
Even though my addiction to being with him was getting rawer and rawer.
I was attracted to more than just his hot body and gorgeous face.
Even though I’d spent a lot of time with him this week, he still fascinated me.
Honestly, maybe I was never going to completely understand him, but Ifelthim. I got him, and in some ways, I was pretty sure he got me, too.
Even when I was afraid of the dark.
“Sleep, Vanna,” Chase rasped beside my ear. “The weather should clear up in the morning. In the meantime, I’m not going anywhere.”
“Thank you,” I whispered fiercely. “Thank you for being here for me, even when I’m feeling like a three-year-old.”
“I’m not going to let you be embarrassed in the morning about this,” he said in a warning voice.
I smiled into the darkness.
Yep. He definitely got me like no other guy ever would.
Chase
“Iheard Vanna’s apartment hunting,” Wyatt said several weeks later as we finished up on some work issues in his office. “How are you feeling about that?”
I lifted a brow. “Torie told you?”
He nodded. “Who else?”
“Honestly, I fucking hate it,” I replied. “But I’ve run out of excuses to keep her with me. The doctors have released her physically, and she really doesn’t need me as her advisor anymore. She stays on top of her counseling herself, and she goes into the studio every day now to finish the Darien Gap project narration, so she’s back to work, too.”
Vanna had decided to return toDeadline Americafor now since she was feeling better about her job and life in general.
She was going to try to write pieces on the side to see if she could get them published.
She’d also decided on an apartment for the time being, until she knew exactly where her career was headed.
While I hadn’t been thrilled with those decisions, I understood them. I just hoped she got out ofDeadline Americasooner rather than later. It would kill me to watch her go out on another assignment.
Hell, I didn’t want her to go, but I couldn’t force her to keep living with me if she wanted her own place.
