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d jeans, I grabbed the folder I had printed out in the stud
had laid out a spread of eggs Benedict, berries, and bagels across the mahogany table. I
slung low around his waist, sweat gleaming across the ridges of his abs. As an elite a
me and drained a glass o
m my tote and slid it across the wood until it hit his knuckles. The bo
terminate t
o his ice‑blue eyes,
erminate it?" He laughed, low and humorless. "An
e is nothing between us e
s chair back, stood, and walked slowly around the table toward me. Be
ley. Tell me there's
my chest hurt. I forced my
"Have you forgotten Clause Four of that contract? As long as this
face. "That's for the ca
he chair. Before I could catch my balance, he scooped me up against his
t his bare shoulder. At the kitchen doorway, Donna poked her
marched up the grand staircase. He kicked the master be
e it two feet. He came down on top of me, his t
as no tenderness-only raw anger, punish
Against an NHL center who fought grown men on the ice for a li
ripping it at the seam. Cold air hit my
from my eyes and ran into my h
ner of his mouth twisted into a cruel, victorious smirk. "Now tell me," h
my head into the pillow. Everyt
f tearing fabric and my muffled sobs against the linen. It was a cold, ruthless claim of o
word. He rolled off the mattress an
strings cut. On the nightstand, the termination agreement he had
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