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I was not going to have all of my desires satisfied, so I wanted at least to have my curiosity quenched.
    Apparently I’d asked something either very insulting or very personal, since a hint of anger flickered over his strong features. He didn’t answer, just nodded in my direction before striding away to the front door.
    Watching him walk away was like having a limb amputated. I tried to convince myself that the melancholy was because of the recent turn of events in my life, but I knew better.
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    I’d found something that I wanted desperately, something that made complete and total sense in the chaos that was my life.
    It had stayed just long enough to tease me with what I could never have.
    Growling with frustration, I tipped my head back and downed the last inch of wine in my glass, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand when I’d finished. As I lowered my chin I caught the stare of two girls who were barely out of high school, if at all. They wore tight, sheer tank tops and shorts that rode up high on the thigh. Though one was a blonde and one a brunette, their faces were nearly identical, smirking with amusement at my predicament.
    My face flushed. I was already embarrassed enough. And then I did what it seemed I was becoming very good at doing.
    I ran.

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“I own a house in Cambria. I’ve come here since I was a child.” I gasped as the voice came out of the velvet night. Turning toward the man who had spoken, I glared, hands on hips.
    “How lovely for you.” Suddenly furious, and angry at myself for the burst of joy I’d initially felt at encountering him again, and for finding that the mere sight of him did strange things to my insides, I moved briskly off down the quiet street. My motel was only a block or so away.
    Main Street was close enough to the water that I could hear the water lapping at the shore. The sound usually soothed me, but tonight it grated at my nerves. I’d gotten nearly all the way back to my motel when I felt a hand on my shoulder, turning me.
    Then Zach’s hands were fisted full of my hair, his lips a whisper away from my own. My breath caught in my throat, and my body pressed itself into his.
    My entire being was drawn to his heat, to the smell of soap and musk and man.
    I opened my mouth to say something, and gasped when he tugged on my hair, drawing my head Surrender to Temptation Part I: Tempted to Submit / Jameson, Lauren 21
    back until I had no choice but to look up into his eyes.
    Wetness surged through my cleft. I’d never been held this way, never been looked at with torment and desire at the same time.
    I loved it.
    “I am a very successful man, Devon. I’ve had to be ruthless to make my way.” His eyes narrowed, judging my response, but I found that his harsh words only made me tremble with need.
    “That ruthlessness applies to all areas of my life. I am not a nice man.” His expression dared me to argue with him. I wasn’t about to. He seemed like a lot of things right in that moment, but nice wasn’t one of them.
    “I don’t care.” It was naive, I knew, but I truly didn’t. Part of me thrilled at his violent words, a part of me that I would never have guessed even existed.
    Something flashed through his expression, gone so fast it was hard to believe that it had even been there, but I knew what I’d seen.
    He liked the way that I responded to him. Liked it a lot.
    “I’m not for you.” I was about to speak, about to object, and instead found myself moaning when he slowly, deliberately closed his teeth over the pulse beneath the line of my jaw. He bit just hard enough to sting and, I imagined, to leave a mark, his actions those of an animal asserting dominance over his prey. As he bit, his hand found the soft mound of my breast. He pinched my nipple through the fabric of my top and bra, then pulled, then pinched again.
    A short, hard burst of pleasure rocketed through me and I cried