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“Come sit on my lap, baby. For me?”
“You say it’s for you . . . but somehow, I think it’s for me.”
“Nope. Definitely for me. I’m sure you’ll get no satisfaction out of it at all. I’m completely selfish.”
“Uh-huh.”
She shouldn’t. She should tell him to leave. Be strong.
But she wasn’t strong, no matter what he said. Because there was no way she could resist being held by him.
He was fast becoming her safety net.
She climbed into his lap. He let out a huge sigh. As though he’d been worried that she would refuse him.
“Thank you, baby.”
“I need your neck. I need to feel your skin. Please.”
“Whatever you need, you can have.”
She wrapped her arms around him, pressing herself against him. “I’m a lot of work.”
“Says who? And anyway, I’m not exactly easy to be with.”
“Yeah. You are hard work,” she agreed.
“Hey!”
She giggled and he kissed the top of her head.
“Brat,” he murmured.
Greer leanedback to look up at him. Her eyes were red-rimmed and there were dark marks under them.
She looked drawn. Gaunt.
Christ. Had she slept last night? He hadn’t. He’d been waiting to hear her cry out with a nightmare, but there had been nothing.
Maybe because she’d barely slept either
“We haven’t known each other long, but I think about you all the time. And my Little . . . I have to guard her from getting hurt. But around you . . . it’s like you bring down all my shields. You’re protective and bossy but also caring . . . you’d be an easy man to lo . . . urgh like.”
Had she been about to say love?
“I would take good care of your Little. I promise,” he told her.
“I keep telling myself you’ve got to have flaws. You can’t really be this gorgeous and smart and kind.”
“I have lots of faults.”
“Hmm, there’s obviously something I can’t see. Like you have stinky feet and don’t put the toilet seat down.”
He gasped. “My feet do not stink and I always put the toilet seat down, even though I live alone.”
“You sure?”
“Positive.”
