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you’d just dropped the uppity act for one second last night and kissed me like you wanted to, you’d be in a much better mood today.”
    I gasped, locking my muscles in place so I wouldn’t slap him across the face like I wanted to.
    “How dare you! I would never- I don’t even know you!”
    He rolled his eyes. “Oh, cut the crap, Shae. We both know what’s going on here.”
    “I-I didn’t want to kiss you last night. I didn’t even want to be at your cabin!”
    One side of his mouth curled as I ducked away from him. “Is that why you tried all night to put distance between us? Is that why your nipples poked out of your shirt, and why you went to bed with a throbbing pussy?”
    I gasped, sucking in a deep breath, my lungs seizing as I tried to exhale. I’d never been spoken to in such a manner.
    “That is completely inappropriate, and I’m done tolerating your vulgar behavior, Mr. Anderson. And I’ll be filing a complaint with your company first thing in the morning!”
    I stormed to the front door, swinging it open for him to leave. My heart raced as he walked, thankful he headed towards the exit. He paused at the threshold and turned to me.
    “I know it must be confusing for a woman like you. Feeling your instincts boiling to the surface, slowly losing your carefully maintained control as lust begins taking over.”
    My chest heaved in exaggerated rises and falls, my body fighting to keep up with my racing pulse. His eyes trailed down my frame, and the tinge I always got when I was around him returned- harder than ever.
    “I may want to tame that mouth of yours, but there’s another side I want to unleash. Your animal side.”
    I turned away, casually leaning against the small table by the cabin’s entrance for support. I didn’t even know why I was continuing to humor him.
    “You’re crazy.”
    He shook his head. “No, I see it. You can’t have a mouth like yours without having a little bite in you. You spend your time repressing it, using all your energy trying to force it away. You know it’s there, and you know you want to let it out.”
    My breathing was audible by that point, and I’d forgotten I just told him to leave. He slammed the door closed and walked to me, staring me down with enough intensity to make my knees buckle.
    “What are you doing?”
    “You tell me; that is your thing, after all.”
    “Well- what… uh-”
    I knocked my purse over as I bumped the table in my attempt to back away. The contents crashed to the floor, unnerving me even more. I tried to bend down to pick them up, but his body blocked me- he was just too close.
    “Come on now. It should be easy to tell me what to do. Do you… want me to go?”
    Maybe it was my vulnerable state, maybe it was the thrill of being on vacation, or maybe I had just literally lost my mind. But I didn’t want him to leave.
    I shook my head.
    “So what do you want?”
    What did I want? My mind was cloudy; the only thing I could think of was my body, which was about to go into shock from my elevated vitals. The only thing I knew is that I wanted Derek there, with me.
    “I don’t know,” I finally whispered, shocked at how weak my voice sounded.
    “You told me at the mountain to stop touching you. Do you still want that?”
    This was crazy. I couldn’t do this, and I needed to shut it down immediately. This wasn’t me. Since deciding I wanted to live, I’d been trying to get back to the old me. A good stepping stone to the Old Shae would’ve been to send Derek away. I opened my mouth to say yes, to tell him to go.
    I took a shaky breath. “No.”
    My eyes widened as my body took control of my mouth and gave the wrong response. He advanced, and I didn’t stop him.
    He trailed a finger along my jawline. My senses were so heightened, the small touch was almost painful. If his finger felt that intense, how was I going to deal with everything else that was going to happen?
    Everything else.
    Why was I allowing ‘ everything