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“You look fucking beautiful in the dress, but you’d look that way in a dress that I can’t see through. I am begging you, Angel, for the love of God, do not wear this dress tonight. I need to be on alert for threats, not watching to make sure your spectacular tits don’t fall out of your dress.”
His momentum carried him into the kitchen and then he was reaching for her. He pulled her into his arms and his mouth found hers in a fierce, possessive kiss. He wanted to brand her, to claim her so no one else could touch her.
“Son, sometimes our women don’t want to be protected. They want to be supported when they go out and kick ass on their own.”
She was a client. She was only twenty. They came from different worlds, and their personal aspirations were not relationship material. He had a business to build. And Waverly? Waverly needed time to find herself, finally, without the interference of family or a lover.
And why in the hell did it bother him so much that she was so certain she’d never love anyone? Because it meant that she’d never love him.
“I love you, my Angel,” he murmured against her ear. “Since the moment you tossed me in that pool, I’ve been in love with you, and I’m not going to stop. So you need to stay with me.”
It was time for a new life. One that she chose for herself. One where she would never again allow herself to be blinded by love.