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He was frightening, she thought frantically and realized that she did not know him at all. His reputation as a businessman had been stressed in the papers as ruthless and intimidating, and she did not doubt it. But she was not going to allow him to see her fear.
“As crystal. Now you listen to me. I never asked for this. All I wanted between us was a professional relationship. That changed that night in your office when you touched me, and I knew it then.
I am loyal, and before I met you, I just wanted to be the best editor in the business, and I am the best. Then I met you-“ She took a deep breath. “I want to be able to be there for you whenever you are ready, but I am not giving up on you. Is that clear?”
His hand tightened around her neck, fingers digging into her skin as if he wanted to punish her for making him hope, and his chest was filled with it.
He yearned to let go and be free to be with her. For the first time since Janice had destroyed his life with her lies and her infidelities and had killed his baby, he was yearning, and it was pissing him off.
Letting go of her, he started to shove her away, but as if anticipating his action, she clamped her hands around his neck.
“No.” She whispered tears in her eyes. “I don’t know the full story, but I know I love you, and you deserve to be loved. I promise I will be yours until I draw my last breath. I will not let you drive me away, and you will discover that I am determined as hell.”
“Is it money?” He asked her harshly, his heart thudding hard inside his chest.
“What?”
“Do you want money? Is that it?”
“No.” She told him quietly. “I want you.” He had loosened the hold on her, and she used that to bend her head and brush her lips against his.
His breath caught inside his throat, and he struggled to resist her.
“Damn you.” He whispered against her lips as the powerful passion swamped him. He would take what she was offering, get out of her house, and never see her again.
The thought of never seeing her again sent cold shivers along his spine. Switching position, he climbed on top of her and drove himself into her with a force that shoved her head up against the padded headboard.
Her arms came around his neck, and she drew him in for a sweet and poignant kiss that he felt himself shaking. All the anger and bitterness seemed to drain out of him to be replaced by something so raw and confounding that he had no idea what to do.
He kissed her back, his fingers digging into her hair as he angled her head to deepen the kiss. He was desperate for her, the passion and desire so overwhelming that it swamped him. He swallowed her cries as the climax claimed her, and then it was his turn, and he could not stop it.
He was still kissing her even when every last drop of his seed had been poured inside her.
He finally found the strength to end the kiss, but when he tried to roll off her, she wrapped her legs around his waist and clung. “You are going to suffocate.” He told her roughly.
“I won’t.” She whispered into his chest.
“At least let me- “Sliding off her, he gathered her against him, still intimately joined to her.
She buried her face in his chest and closed her eyes, a smile touching her lips. He felt the shivers as she pressed open-mouthed kisses on his chest. Stifling a groan, he tangled his fingers through the silken strands of her hair.
“Stop.” He ordered weakly as she continued to move her mouth slowly over his chest.
Lifting her head, she looked at him, eyes dancing. “Do you want me to?”
His silver eyes were smoldering. “You cannot love me.”
“Too late, darling.”
Like an electric shock, a jolt sizzled through his chest at the endearment and the looking in her beautiful eyes. Damn her for making him yearn. “What if I say that I never want to see you again when I leave here tonight?”
Her heart jittered and then steadied. “Then I am afraid you will have a stalker on your hands.”
“I know how to deal with those.”
“You had one or two, did you?”
He did not respond, and turning his head away, he stared in front of him. “I cannot give you what you want.” He insisted.
