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Prologue
Iknew it was wrong, but I couldn’t help myself.
Everything was riding on this.
Everything depended on me keeping him at arm’s length.
My inheritance, my future. It was the difference between whether I ended up disowned, penniless on the streets, and with my grandmother’s home occupied by strangers…
…or an heiress to a billion dollars worth of assets and holdings.
It didn’t matter.
Nothing ever seemed to matter when I was with him.
His hands glided over my naked skin, claiming every last inch of me as his own. Sweat dripped down the side of my face. I struggled to collect my breath, still spent and completely exhausted from our foolish surrender. My knees weakened. They nearly buckled beneath me but he was there. His thick arms wrapped around me, bracing me against the muscled planes of his chest. Reminding me he would always be there to catch me, always be there to prop me back up.
And always be there to drive me insane with pleasure until my body gave way to fatigue.
One bead of moisture trailed down my spine, tingling and enticing me with a blend of hot and cold sensations. The space between my thighs pulsated with a renewed longing. Flames fanned up the side of my face, weaving their way across my neck and down into the pit of my chest. His touch breathed life into me slowly, showing me how far from paradise I had been all these years. All the while, his lips worshipped my body as if beholding an ancient goddess of mythology.
As if I stood between him and the key to his happiness.
His kiss stole into my soul, whispering vows of unending desire and love I did not deserve. When he touched me, every nerve awoke in response, enlivened beneath an arousal nearly kismet in proportions. Even without him, my body craved him, relying on the phantom memories of his touch to propel me into uninhibited ecstasy.
There was no need to imagine my nights without him now. Not when he was so close, our bodies pressed against one another in the most intimate of dances.
He was not yet ready to let me go.
I had pushed him away for too long, denied our passion far too many times.
I never told him what our love would cost. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that money was the only thing keeping us apart.
He wouldn’t understand. A kind heart and loving soul like him deserved the world. He deserved a woman as devoted to him as he was to her, not someone embroiled in a family feud that had been going on for almost half a century now.
And yet…
No matter how hard I tried, I could not control the emotions consuming me. Every time I was with him, I wanted more.
Once would never be enough.
A lifetime would never be enough.
Not anymore.
Chapter One
Lyndsey
“The house is yours.”
I shook my head. I could not have heard him right.
My grandmother had left the family home to me?
Lyndsey Saunders? The one voted most likely to travel the world as an inspirational guru was now being given a permanent residence in the form of my family home, Hummingbird Hollow.
“There must be some mistake,” I said, my gaze shifting to each member of the family before finally landing on the estate lawyer, Mr. Philips. “I don’t need a house.”
