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“It doesn’t work that way, Chay. ” He tried pure male dominance and decisiveness.
“Because you decree it?” Her eyes were fiery now, not just in anger, but in confrontation, in determination.
Hell, he was getting hard. He could feel his arousal stretching to life, the ice that had encased his emotions beginning to melt as she glared back at him.
“You can decree to hell and back, Natches, and it’s not going to do you one damned bit of good. You dragged me into this relationship, you’re the one that made damned sure my soul was so tied to yours that I couldn’t breathe without feeling you, and then you did everything in your power to help create life from it. Damn you, you’re not backing away now. ”
“Backing away was never in the cards. ” He lowered his head and growled the words at her. “Did I say you could leave this relationship?”
Her eyes widened and disbelief filled her face. And that made him grow harder, because the disbelief was filled with scornful amazement.
“Oh my God, you take the cake. ” Her hands went on her hips, and his cock just got harder still. “I can’t believe your complete arrogance. ”
“You should, you’ve dealt with it before. ” He wasn’t budging. If he told her what he had planned, then she would just stick her nose into it. Her nose was far enough on the chopping block; he wasn’t going to allow it to go any farther.
“You are not doing this without me!” The words were said with such snap that his brow lifted mockingly.
“And you’re not going after him with me. ” She’d lost enough in her life; he wasn’t going to allow her to lose any more. Not her life, or their child’s. And he knew that child was there, resting securely within her. He intended to make damned sure he kept that child safe. The child and his or her mother.
“I’ve worked this case for five years,” she said furiously. “Five years, so you could come in with your lies and your damned charm and force me out of it? ‘Oh, Chay, I just admire your courage and strength,’” she sneered, her face twisting in fury. “Fuck you, Natches. ”
“And I didn’t lie. ” His voice rose, unintentionally, fueled by the anger and the arousal rising inside him. “Do you think I don’t admire it? That I’d want to change a damned thing about you? I’m not trying to change anything, damn you, but I will protect you. ”
“Screw your protection. ”
He clenched his fists, not in rage, but to keep from touching her, to keep from jerking her to him and taking all the wild passion, driving into it until they both forgot the pain and the danger moving in on them.
“Chay, don’t push me on this,” he growled back. Damn her, she was tearing him apart inside. He could see the betrayal in her eyes, the hurt, and he hated it. “This isn’t a fight you can be a part of. ”
“And it’s not a fight I’ll let you push me out of,” she yelled back.
Turning, he watched as she stalked to the table and snapped her laptop shut. She gathered the files, stuffed them with the laptop in her case, then jerked her boots from the floor and sat on the couch.
“What the hell are you doing?” He grabbed the boot from her hand and held it out of her reach as she came off the couch, fury stamped on her flushed features. “You’re not leaving here. ”
“The hell I’m not. ” When she couldn’t jerk the boot out of his grasp, she pulled the case on her shoulder and moved to the door barefoot.
“You can’t go outside without shoes. It’s cold out there. ” He parked himself in front of the door as she stood before him, breasts heaving, her little fists clenched at her side as though she were actually going to use them on him.
“Better the cold outside than the cold in here. ” She slapped his chest. “Now get out of my way. ”
“Chay, you don’t want to keep this up,” he grated out. “Calm the hell down. ”
“Don’t you tell me to calm down, Natches Mackay. ” A finger was in his face, pointing too close to his nose as he looked at it, then slowly looked up at her.
“Put that finger down, Chay. ” There was something about that finger in his face that made every male instinct inside him stand up in outrage.
“Make me. ” That finger jabbed into his chest. “Come on, tough ass. Make me. You’ve cheated everywhere else in this relationship, you might as well cheat here, too. What are you going to do? Tie me to the bed? Because damn you, that’s the only way you’ll keep me here. ”
SEVENTEEN
There was something about that finger in his chest and the complete and total fury transforming Chaya’s expression that did it to him.
“It” being completely wiping his mind of everything but possessing her. “It” being imag
ining her on her knees, naked, nipples tight, hard, and red, while he fucked that sarcastic little mouth with shallow thrusts.
“It” being owning her soul because she owned his. He knew, even as he stood there mad as hell and fighting it, that there wasn’t a chance in hell he could keep her if he did this alone. And that just made him madder. Just made him hornier.
