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I had no idea how much I could trust this man. No idea how much he cared for me, if he cared for me…
And then, like clockwork, I would come back to the image of him carrying his boots into the bedroom so as not to wake me.
Of him racing off after the gunman at the Seven Veils to try to save his life.
Of him beating up the sleazoid at the counter at Charlie’s to defend my honor.
Jack Pollari was a good man.
I didn’t know if I could trust him… but then again… I was lying to him, too.
Maybe those two things cancelled each other out.
I got up off the bed and went to go find him.
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Jack
Something was definitely wrong here.
I sat on the couch as I got dressed, trying to figure it out.
I suppose she could be telling the truth about me coming inside her. Hell, I’d know a lot of chicks who freaked out about less than that.
But it didn’t fit. She’d been teasing me with it, dangling it in front of me just a few short hours before.
She didn’t say shit when I slipped inside her without a condom.
It was like there was something she wasn’t telling me. Something she was worried about, and this just happened to be the release valve where all the stress came out.
Was Lou right on the money? Was she a DEA agent?
How the fuck was I going to get it out of her, short of beating it out of her?
But something was definitely wrong.
Suddenly the bedroom door opened and she was standing there in the doorway, clutching the bedsheet around her.
God she was beautiful. Tussled hair. Gorgeous breasts pressed behind her arms and the sheet. Long shapely legs.
Who knew that a woman like that could be such a goddamn liar?
Potentially.
There was no way to know for sure. That I could see anyway.
She walked over and sat down next to me as I was putting on my boots. Put her hand on my leg.
“I’m sorry,” she said softly.
“That’s nice,” I growled.
“I was freaking out. It was a lot, you know? And I’m exhausted, and I… I just freaked out.”
I stopped putting on my boots and looked over at her.
“You’re right,” she continued. “I told you earlier I wanted you to, and you didn’t ask in the heat of the moment because you just assumed. I’m sorry I freaked out on you.”
