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by
J.R. Ward
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January 21 - March 11, 2019
She told herself she measured every shift of his muscle, swing of his arm, stride of his leg, for signs he was going to wheel around and attack her. But that wasn’t the only reason she was watching him. His body was still wet. Still glistening. Still full of deadly promise— Not now, she told her damn libido.
After three years of not noticing anything of the opposite sex, now was absolutely, positively not the time to get back on that train. And he was not the right male, at any rate. And goddamn it, she was not that kind of a female— The male had an ass that went on for days. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays.
she had learned the hard way that giving people insight into your heart and soul was like loading a gun and handing it over to an enemy.
I still don’t think I had a right to take his life. A person’s heartbeat is their own property. Even thieves and murderers get that gift from the Creator.
Odd the parallels in life, he decided as he walked out. When he’d left her the last time, he’d known he was going to see her again and had dreaded it. Now, he knew he wasn’t going to . . . and he dreaded that, too.
Why did people always learn things about themselves too late, he thought.

