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the bedroom or out of it.
    “If you want to press charges against me when we leave,” Blake said, his deep voice rumbling through the car’s cabin. “I won’t do anything to stop you. If that’s what you’re wondering.”
    “So you won’t kill me and bury my body in the woods?” Erin tried to laugh, but she suddenly wasn’t finding the situation funny.
    No matter how well she had once known Blake, she didn’t know shit about him now. After all, she’d once believed Scott was her Dom in shining black leather, the man she’d be with for the rest of her life. When they’d first married, she couldn’t have imagined how quickly her devoted husband would become a monster she despised.
    Even if she were right and Blake did still love her, who was to say he didn’t have the same capacity for cruelty?
    If so, it would certainly prove that she should never date again. Her taste in men was decidedly lethal.
    “Look at me,” Blake said, waiting patiently until she did so. “I would never hurt you. Do you believe I’m telling the truth?”
    Erin looked deep into his dark brown eyes, the eyes of the first boy she had ever loved, of the best friend she’d regretted losing for eight years. And for a moment, she was fourteen again—lost and afraid after the foster mom she’d loved so much had died and she’d been placed with a monster. The only way she had survived was by putting on her best tough-girl act and pretending she didn’t feel like she was about to shatter into a million pieces. Blake’s eyes, and the kind, loving boy they belonged to, were the only things that had gotten her through the day.
    No matter what madness had made him formulate this plan to alter her tattoo, deep down, Blake was still that boy. He would still die before he hurt her, still risk the fists of their foster father or worse to keep her safe. She truly believed that.
    “I believe you,” Erin whispered, willing the tears she felt pricking at the backs of her eyes not to fall. She wasn’t going to cry over old memories. The past was the past. She had to concentrate on the future and her little girl. Nothing else mattered.
    “Good.” Blake held her gaze, looking near to tears himself, but then a smile spread across his face, making her think she had imagined that moment of vulnerability. “Then let’s get inside and I’ll find something to cover that frozen ass of yours.”
    As he exited the vehicle, Erin did her best to pull herself together and figure out the first step in her plan. She believed that Blake didn’t want to harm her, but he was still dead set on accomplishing the mission he’d set for himself. And Blake was nothing if not stubborn. It was going to take some intensive persuasive efforts to convince him to change his mind, and she didn’t have a lot of time. It was already nearly Saturday morning and she only had until Sunday afternoon.
    She was going to have to launch operation Sex Blake Into Forgetting He Owns a Tattoo Gun as soon as possible.
    Guess there was no time like the present…

CHAPTER FOUR
Erin
    Erin watched Blake walk around the car and grab a large suitcase from the back before she opened her own door and stepped out into the cold night.
    “Shit!” She squealed and ran as fast as her high-heeled feet could carry her to the door of the cabin.
    It was freezing up on the mountaintop. The wind cut through what few clothes she was wearing, making her feel like she was naked in a snowstorm.
    As soon as Blake opened the door to the cabin, she dashed inside, grateful that the heat was already running. If it had been this cold when she and Blake had pulled over for their quickie, even nearly two years without sex wouldn’t have been enough to convince her to bang out in the elements.
    But it was for the best that they’d broken the ice. He’d already let his guard down and done something he’d freely admitted he hadn’t intended to do.
    Now it would only take a little push to get them back in bed