Candice And The Cocky King

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and how did

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wake up," he said, proppin

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uppress a chuckle "Feeling shy? You could

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ds into fists as s

s was not how the nig

acing her grief. "I never wanted this. How cou

"You wanted this; you were literall

e she tried to seduce him, but she was only

dn't have ti

and she needed to

arched for her handbag

n't re

ag?" she queried,

have to do with

nspired between us last night after I drank that beer, b

t the 'business' you wan

she began gathering her clothes

herself to this man wh

k you are doing?"

I have a job to report to. Obviously,

u return to that b

think I'll g

ause it was me, but I will not tolerate you whoring yourself to men

o told you I was whoring or whateve

m last night had looked down on her from the first moment she

s costing her more than she'd been willing to give.

no dif

did she end up

ve been th

glass of beer

ith drugs? What w

. He looked normal on the outside, bu

began to rise from the bed. Muscles rippled, tendons strained,

but stare, the sig

ross. Chiseled abs flexed on a firm abdomen, chestnut-c

between his legs, a black

see?" his dee

r eyes as her face flu

ogling his nake

y gorgeous but with

mates with lust at dawn, after a long nigh

felt her brief moment of admi

alking helped her rem

and glared at him. "Tell me where my h

r handbag, you can't

me, take a shower, get an aspirin for the throbb

do all this wit

night, how come it's nowhere around here?" s

to don a robe. He remained quiet, leaning at the far end of the wal

'd stopped t

portant to me is in that bag. My cell phone, my house keys

to me? That you think I would ke

ured. "I can't take this anymore," she rose to

top it!" she

n eyebrow "

are worth a lot in value and you can only get it approved if you go th

ed in co

get you to seal the deal because my agen

re at the bar for business last nigh

ry excuse for a bar? You chose that bar f

s interesting. So, from what you're saying, I set up a d

her chin

, if you told yourself such fabled

am not a whore!" She yelle

lk fu

to some 18th-century medieval speech." She

tand that I have to keep up with the e

again talking like some ancient being.

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I borrow your cell phon

e one here,"

has a cell phon

Even if I did, it would not wor

in this time and age? He loo

ith me? Or was he rea

e vast room to the door, she had long worn h

e," his voice c

nd I hope we never meet again," she threw the words over her s

in awe at the sigh

curtains knotted side by side, leading down a flight of stai

t what left her r

de the windows.

use seemed to be on a cliff of sorts because just below, she could see the

adorned the surroundings with but

e wa

notice her inter

ous, something that might pop

crystals of the finest quality; it brought the outside environment into the house with its

e sort of va

kept under the radar about the bid, other than

she walked bac

ging in her head. "Please, tell me w

f the wall where he'd been leaning,

pha of the Royal House of Wyatt. Leader of the pack of the Grey wolves. The protector

aw dr

eath c

she felt a paralyzing

s name did s