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found her clit with his thumb,
circling the little bundle of nerves, pressing firmly until the muscles in her
neck tensed.
    “Fuck yes,” he growled. “Come on my dick, baby. That’s it, darlin’.
Come for me.”
    “Make me come,” Katie pleaded.
    Dalton thrust forward hard, slamming into her as he continued to press
his thumb against her clit.
    “Say my name, Katie. When you come on my cock, say my name.”
    He needed to hear it, needed her to acknowledge just who was fucking
her. Who owned her.
    Driving into her over and over, Dalton felt the telltale tingle erupt
in the base of his spine, taking him by surprise. He couldn’t hold back. “Come
for me, Katie. Oh, God, baby. I can’t hold on. You feel too fucking good.”
    Katie’s fingernails dug deeper into his arms as he thrust into her
again and again, his body coated in perspiration as he tried to control his
release.
    “Oh, God, Dalton. Fuck. Yes! I’m coming. Dalton, I’m coming!”
    Dalton’s hips jerked forward one last time, his release detonating at
the sound of his name. He fell forward, trying not to land on her, but the
orgasm brutally gripped him.
    Katie’s arms wrapped around his neck, holding him to her as his cock
pulsed.
    And when he finally found the strength to move, Dalton pulled out and
dropped to his side, wrapping his arms around Katie. He buried his face in her
neck, trying to catch his breath.
    Several minutes passed before his heart rate returned to normal, his
breaths no longer soughing in and out of his lungs.
    He looked up at Katie, noticing she was watching him. She pressed her
lips to the corner of his mouth, the move so unexpected he felt a strange
swelling in his chest. It was a combination of the feelings the woman invoked
in him and something else…
    The look in Katie’s eyes wasn’t one of promise. No, what he saw in the
stormy gray depths was something else. Something that scared him on more than
one level.
    No, Katie wasn’t looking at him as though she were looking forward to
spending a lifetime with him. She was looking at him as though their time
together was about to come to an end.
     
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    Lying in the dark, wrapped in Dalton’s arms, Katie couldn’t bring
herself to give in to sleep. Although her body was completely sated, her brain
was working overtime.
    She didn’t want to leave, but she needed to go.
    What she wouldn’t give to spend the night in his bed, letting the
feeling of safety and security wrap around her. It was a feeling she’d never
felt before. She’d spent her life hoping to one day find it, never truly
believing she would, but now that she was here, she was scared.
    Scared that the truth would come out.
    Scared that Dalton would figure out she was a fraud.
    She couldn’t be with him. It wasn’t in the cards, no matter how much
she wished it were.
    Her life was too complicated. It also wasn’t her own. Whatever control
she thought she had over the decisions she made, she knew it was a lie. Every
thought, every decision she made was to survive. To survive in a world she
hadn’t wanted to be a part of but hadn’t been able to escape.
    And there was someone else who depended on her. Someone whose needs
came before her own.
    Dalton stirred, his arms tightening around her as though he were trying
to make sure she was still there. She was. For now.
    But she did have to leave. She had to get back to her life, had to
leave this man behind, because the secrets she kept would only hurt him. And
that was the last thing she wanted to do.
    Dalton made her feel special; he made her feel whole for the first time
in her entire life, yet she knew it was too good to be true.
    “Don’t leave me, Katie,” Dalton whispered, his voice rough from sleep.
    She wished she could tell him that she wouldn’t, but that would just be
another lie. And up to this point, she hadn’t lied to him. She’d merely kept
him in the dark. Where she needed him to stay.
    “Stay with me,