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He’d said she was his from the moment he first saw her.
And as much as she wanted to, she couldn’t deny that when she’d realized who Regina was to Julian, she’d freaked out because that same word had been echoing in her head.
Mine.
Regina might have fucked him. He might have made her come. He might have done all kinds of filthy and outrageous things to her that he’d never do to Skylar. But it didn’t matter.
Mine.
Julian.
Hers.
Julian pulled out onto the street, and she remained silent for several minutes before she finally said, “You need to take me home.”
“Why would I do that?”
She straightened in her seat. “Because I’m telling you to.”
“Oh, is that what you’re doing? Maybe I’m choosing to ignore what you’re telling me now and instead am listening to what you were telling me back there with Regina.”
“What the hell does that mean?” she bristled, posing outraged indignation to hide the fact that she was feeling as vulnerable as a lamb being led to slaughter.
He sighed. “It means, even though what’s between us is very complicated, and I usually avoid complicated like the plague, I can’t ignore what you showed me back there. You were jealous, Skylar.”
“So what?” she said, not bothering to deny it despite how much she wanted to. “You’ve given that woman orgasms, and you haven’t been able to give me one.”
She made the outrageous statement even knowing how unfair the accusation was, but he didn’t bristle and defend himself like she thought he would.
When his silence was prolonged, she said, “Aren’t you going to answer me?”
He didn’t even turn to look at her. “And say what? You spoke the truth. I haven’t been able to make you come. But we both know another truth. You don’twantto come, Skylar. I don’t know why, hell maybe evenyoudon’t know why, but I promise you this. You might never have my tongue or fingers or cock inside you from this moment on, but Iwillget to the heart of you. Together, we will get to thewhyof things, if only because you need to let someone in before whatever it is that’s eating away at you destroys you completely.”
Shaken, she looked out the window. He drove, his lane changes smooth, so smooth that the longer they drove, the more subdued she became. She thought about what he said. Really thought about it.
And she knew he was right.
The ugliness that kept her from trusting not just others but herself was eating away at her.
But she didn’t know how to stop it.
She closed her eyes, letting the rocking of the car soothe her. Then, under the safety of her closed eyes, she spoke. “Julian?”
“Yes?”
“It’s not that I don’t want to come,” she said.
“It isn’t?”
“No. It’s that . . . I think . . . I think I need you tomakeme come.”
She heard him suck in a breath. Then she curled into a tight ball.
He didn’t speak, and neither did she.
She was almost asleep when she heard him.
“I don’t know if I can do that, princess,” he said.
