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“And of course, you think it’s because that cow Marlena might have hired someone to attack me. ” The complete disgust in her voice surprised him. “John, sometimes you’re such a man that it’s completely infuriating. ”
“What the fuck!” He couldn’t hold back an incredulous laugh at this point. “What the hell else could you be pissed over? Sierra, dammit, if I’d had any idea you’d be hurt . . . ”
Her hand slashed up, the flat of her palm held out to him so decisively that he simply shut up. Hell, his mother used that signal for complete silence. It was almost impossible to disobey.
“This has nothing to do with the attack and everything to do with something you wouldn’t know if it slapped you right upside the face,” she informed him, the haughtiness in her voice having what he imagined was the completely opposite effect of what she was going for.
Because he wasn’t in the least chided. Hell now, his dick was straight up, as hard as iron, and throbbing with a force he’d never experienced before.
The need to possess her, to have her, to stoke that wild, brilliant light in those dark gray eyes was suddenly almost impossible to resist.
This effect she had on him was only growing stronger with no peak in sight. Each day, each hour, each moment he was with her, and he only wanted her more.
“I’d know a lot of things without being slapped upside the face with it, lollipop. ”
Sierra caught the rakish sound of his voice, the carnal glimmer of hunger in those wild violet-blue eyes, and felt the defiance brewing inside her rising.
It had something to do with his complete arrogance. Never had John shown this side of himself so clearly. It was normally subtle, normally less blatant. Normally less challenging.
Now, it seemed to fill the entire room, making it hard to breathe, hard to think of anything but the man, the hunger, and the need to claim him.
She was sure he thought he was claiming her. There was a male superiority about him that had the potential to set her teeth on edge.
“And what do you think you know?” she snapped back. “Trust me, John, when it comes to me, there’s so little you know that it’s not even funny. ”
“I know you love me. I know you’ve loved me most of your life and you’ll always love me. That I know for a fact. ”
Sierra froze. She could feel something crashing inside her, cracking through her heart. He knew that, and yet, he’d left her?
“How long have you known?” Her breath stilled in her chest. There didn’t seem to be enough oxygen left in the room to fill her lungs.
“Hell. ” He breathed out roughly as he stared back at her, his fingers plowing through the overly long strands of his hair. “This isn’t where I meant this to go, Sierra. This is my fucking fault, and I’m sorry as hell. ”
She shook her head. “I don’t want your apology. You didn’t tell Marlena to make that decision and you didn’t ask her to screw around on you. I want to know how long you’ve known that I’m in love with you. ”
She had loved him all her life; that was no less than the truth. He was her first love, and no matter how this worked out, no doubt John would be her only love. He would be an incredibly hard act to follow for any man.
His gaze seemed to sharpen before he shook his head again. “I knew the first night you were here and you gave yourself to me, despite the bruises, despite being attacked. I know you, Sierra, you wouldn’t have done that without a trust that goes with love. ”
“According to you, I’ll fuck anything in pants anyway,” she burst out. “How did that tell you any damned thing?”
Fury flashed through John. Stalking to her, he caught her upper arms, jerked her to him, and glared into the challenge of her furious gray eyes.
“I’ve never said that,” he gritted out between teeth clenched in fury. “I never suggested anything so vile of you, Sierra. ”
“You may as well,” she cried back. “You believed every man who ever claimed to have been in my bed. As far as I’m concerned, you may as well call me a whore outright. ”
“Sierra, you all but lived with those three men. ” He was going to pull his own hair out as soon as he fucked the defiance out of her tempting little body. “And what the hell does it matter if you did? Do you think I hold it against you?”
She tried to jerk out of his grip. Not fucking happening. He’d been damned if he was going to let her roll right over him this time. Her temper had always infuriated him even as it fascinated him, but this time, she wasn’t even coming close to winning this argument.
“Do I think you what?” She was incensed and completely gorgeous. “You really think I’d give a damn if you did? No, jack-ass, my problem is the fact that I didn’t sleep with them. ”
The words were out of her mouth before Sierra could stop them or call them back, causing her to follow up with a quick, “I had better taste in men. ”
His brows lifted. That look on his face was completely irritating.
“Baby, I really don’t care who you slept with before me. ” Pulling her closer, he glared down at her in determination. “Who you sleep with now is all that matters to me. ”
