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accused him of knocking her up, he might feel sorry for her. She didn’t stand a chance against the powerhouse of a woman. Anyone would have to be a fool to stand in defiance against Haven when she set her mind on something. The woman was breathtakingly beautiful and unstoppable. He said a silent prayer that she hadn’t set her mind against the two of them.
    It didn’t matter. He didn’t give up any easier than she did and if it came down to a battle of wills, he’d keep going until he won her back. It helped that he knew deep down she wanted him as much as he wanted her.
    “Before you get any ideas about Jenson or anyone else paying your legal bills, remember he doesn’t have the resources the Walker family does and he couldn’t protect you even if he wanted to. Justin, could you please escort Brandy to the lobby and put her in a cab to wherever she’d like to go.” She didn’t wait to see Justin move to follow her request. Clearly dismissing the other woman, she turned her back on the room and went to gaze out the window to the city below.
    He waited until they were alone and then went to stand behind her, close enough to feel the warmth coming from her body without touching her. He didn’t want to give her a reason to reject him again. Not yet.
    “Thank you,” he said. “You were brilliant.”
    “It’s what you pay me for.”
    “I’ll get my father to take care of Jenson.” Walker senior would love nothing more than to put the screws to the governor, and he had more than enough ammunition to use to threaten him. Shep wasn’t worried. It was the perfect way to use his father’s unique talents.
    “Nothing public without clearing it first,” she said, glancing over her shoulder at him.
    The position stretched her neck into a long, graceful line and his palm practically itched to touch her. To run his hand along the slender column of her throat as he pressed the length of his body against hers.
    “You made your point last time,” he said, smiling at the memory of Haven and his father going head to head over his father’s political scheming. Under any other circumstance, his father would have appreciated Jenson’s tactics. It was the kind of game he played.
    Haven turned her attention back to the window and the view below, leaving him staring at the back of her head.
    “Haven,” he said, taking a chance and gripping her arm.
    “Don’t.” She stepped out of his reach, heading toward the door before he could stop her. “Come on, Senator. We need to go.”
    He was out the door after her before he realized he hadn’t heard her say his name since she called him on the trail.
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    M ATT BLEW THE gorgeous blonde still sprawled in the bed a kiss and gave her a wink before closing the door behind him and stepping out into the hallway. He’d met the woman at one of Senator Walker’s fundraisers. She was an octogenarian’s trophy wife with the kind of body only youth and a great deal of money could supply.
    He loved fucking married women. They never wanted anything more than sex with no strings attached. The trophy wives whose husbands relied on little blue pills to rise to the occasion were starved for a young man who could take them for a ride. He could make it his mission in life to take care of all the rich neglected wives who were relying on expensive vibrators instead of their husbands for their orgasms.
    He came around the corner, heading for the elevator and almost ran into Justin, the second-in-command in the Walker campaign, escorting a hugely pregnant woman. Matt managed to back up just in time to avoid being seen. He ducked into an open housekeeping door and waited until Justin and the woman disappeared into the elevator, taking just enough time to snap a probably illegible picture with his phone as the door slid closed. Thank God, the pair had been too busy with whatever was going on in their world to even notice him.
    Interesting. Justin preferred men, and the guy