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Ready to knock down a wall?” His voice was low and he watched me with an unreadable expression
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Fuck. She was gorgeous. She wasn’t supposed to be gorgeous. For fifteen years, Sadie Waters had lingered in the back of my mind, and after all this time, she was even prettier.
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Holden, you’re going to break my fucking heart.” My pulse raced in my ears and I shook my head hard. “Never, Sadie. I’ll break my own before I break yours. I’d never hurt you.
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I winced and pulled the scarf out from under my seat. “I need you to wear a blindfold.” Her eyebrows rose way up and she offered me a bemused smile. “Is this a sex thing?” She wiggled her eyebrows up and down. “No,” I choked out, laughing. “I don’t want you to see until the right moment.” She studied the scarf. “Fine,” she said with a sigh. “This better not awaken anything in me.
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I didn’t know you were dropping by.
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Besides, I’d learned a long time ago that the happily married with a wife and kids path wasn’t going to happen for me.
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Why would anyone go for Holden when they could have one of his brothers?
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He snorted and hit the flush button to whoosh my barf into the ocean.
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I wasn’t moving here. I wasn’t giving up my entire life for a guy, no matter how much I liked him. It wasn’t happening.
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Holden.” I slapped his arm. “Holden, wake up. Someone roofied you and deposited you in my bed.
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When I turned to look at him, he wore a funny expression on his face. Wistful and proud. He nodded and stood. “I know. Alright, let’s go.” “Go where?” “To the bank. The ring has always been yours, Holden, if you wanted it. It’s in the safe at the bank.
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Stephanie Archer (In Your Dreams, Holden Rhodes (Queen's Cove, #3))
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I always thought I’d find someone and it never happened. It would have been nice to find a partner.
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She was so pretty, and I was so, so fucked.
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I put the king-sized dildo back in the box without a word. “A lot of guys don’t know what they’re doing so women need to rely on toys.” “So I’ve heard.” “What, you’ve never had a girl use a toy in bed?” “Never needed it.
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I’m yours to do what you want with. You want to slap me? You can.” I shot her a playful grin and she matched it.
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