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Kent, with his dark intensity and that anger deep within him that blows on some sort of coal within me, coaxing it to flame. Kent, who lifts me as easily as if I’m a kitten and pulls me hard against his body, making me feel safe and warm and wanted in his arms.

Or at least I thought he wanted me, until he wouldn’t look at me today….

I dismiss that, though I knowing, deep down, that Kent wants me, which is an assurance I don’t really have with Ivan. I have the proof of Kent’s desire – I’ve seen him struggle against it for weeks, seen him write up that ridiculous contract in. order to build walls between us, walls designed to keep him safe, not me. And a very large part of me wants to break those walls down, to see what I find behind them all. A little thrill

runs through me at the idea of Kent loosed from all of the restrictions he places on himself.

What would it be like to see him unbound. What would it be like to be with him, totally unleashed…

I blush, thinking of it, and then wonder – is that what I like about Kent? The challenge, more than Kent himself? I groan, feeling guilty, because frankly – it’s the opposite with Ivan.

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no mystery – just his sincere, funny self. I smile when I think of him, which I don’t do when I think of Kent a smile that echoes the

one is looking for? That kind of

stupid hot…when I think about what we almost. got to last night, about the way his skin felt under my hands, the fact that I could have, if I wanted to, pulled that shirt from his body and inspected the intricacies of those hidden

face in my pillow, muffling the sound. God, what was

tucked away in the pillow,

a little Janeen–shaped devil lands on my shoulder, poking me angrily with her pitchfork. “Why the hell do you need to decide now?” she hisses

I twist in my bed, away from

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