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him say what I think he said?
“Are you teasing me?”
“More than that. I know that you want me,” he says, focusing his eyes arrogantly on mine.
“You want me, too,” I say.
“There's no denying that,” he says, shaking his head. “As I said earlier, I want you more than I ever wanted anyone, but that's what scares me.”
“What?”
“You walked into my life and suddenly I feel upside down. Everything that used to make sense doesn't. What scares me most now is the fact that you will walk out of it just as suddenly as you came into it. That's why I want to make this deal.”
I swallow hard.
“You spend one week here and I will let you write an article about me. You can call it research or you can call it whatever you want.”
I look him up and down as he towers over me like a marble statue of a Greek God. Dark and lean with the slim build of a cowboy or distance runner, his face is only now getting some lines in his forehead and around his eyes. He tilts his head to one side, popping his chin out, confidently waiting for my answer.
I hate the cockiness. I hate that he’s trying to make me make a decision when I don’t have a choice.
Doesn't he know that my life is on the line for this?
Doesn't he know that if I don't bring the story back to my boss then everything that I have worked for is going to be taken from me?
“I don't like games.”
“This isn’t a game.”
“Yes, it is. You’re putting me into a terrible position. You're trying to pressure me. That's not what people who want to spend time with someone do. If you wanted me to spend the night, you could've just asked me. If you wanted me to spend a week with you and for us to get to know each other more, you could've asked.”
“I’m asking now.”
“No, you’re not.”
“You would've said no.”
“Perhaps, but now we will never know.”
Liam crosses his arms with a satisfied grin on his face. For some reason, he seems unfazed and that makes me feel even more out of control and angrier at him.
Why did he have to take this beautiful moment that we just had and turn it into something else?
We could have had some glorious sex on the hood of my car and that could've been it.
Then it occurs to me.
He wants more than that.
He wants more than a one-night stand.
“Is that what's really going on here?” I ask. “You want more than just some meaningless sex?”
“I don't want any meaningless sex,” he says quietly. “Not with you. I want you more than anything, right now, on the roof of that car. I want to rip off your clothes, spread your legs, and push myself deep inside of you. I want to do it over and over again until you scream my name so loud that the crows on those cacti five acres away get scared and fly away. I also want more than that. I want you. All of you. For a week. In return, I will give you what you want, anything you want.”
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The only way he’ll agree to the story about the great and reclusive writer, D. B. Carter is if I agree to spend the week with him.
He thinks that the reason that I left is that I don’t want him. Nothing could be from the truth.
He thinks I was insulted. He’s wrong.
I have a fire in my body that burns just for him.
Still, I leave.
He shouldn’t have asked for something like that. All that it did was push me away.
But I have to write this story to save my job.
It won’t be published for a while and I’ll have time to convince him to go on the record.
At least, that’s what I think.
But then the article comes out and he shows up at my house.
He’s angry.
I’m mad.
What happens when that fire between us starts to ignite?
What happens when he pulls me close and doesn’t let go?
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When he burst into my life, he set everything on fire.
He is a multi-millionaire, escaped inmate serving life in prison for a double murder he didn’t commit.
He was once my only friend and my first crush.
He doesn’t ask for help and I don’t offer.
His hair falls into his face and a strand brushes along his chiseled jaw. His vulnerability is disarming.
We both know that he shouldn’t be here, but when I stare into his piercing, intense eyes, I can’t look away.
I want to tell him to leave, but then he leans over and runs his finger over my lower lip.
When our mouths touch, I know that I won’t be able to stop.
What happens when one night isn’t enough?
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The Perfect Lie
The Perfect Life
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All the Lies Series
All the Lies
All the Secrets
All the Doubts
All the Truths
All the Promises
All the Hopes
Tell me Series
Tell Me to Stop
Tell Me to Go
Tell Me to Stay
Tell Me to Run
Tell Me to Fight
Tell Me to Lie
Wedlocked Trilogy
Dangerous Engagement
Lethal Wedding
Fatal Wedding
Tangled Series
Tangled up in Ice
Tangled up in Pain
Tangled up in Lace
Tangled up in Hate
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Black Series
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Black Rules
Black Bounds
Black Contract
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Not into you Duet
Not into you
Still not into you
Lavish Trilogy
Lavish Lies
Lavish Betrayal
Lavish Obsession
Standalone Novels
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Offer
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