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That__ not why I__ here. I__e got a mission. I made a promise._ His chest expanded with a deep, ragged breath. __h, hell. Quit looking at me like you either want to shoot me or eat me up. I__ trying to do the right thing here._ Max__ rejection instantly sent her back to the times in her relationship with Richard when he__ rebuffed her advances. __ wasn__ very good, was I? I__ sor__ __o not let that man come between us._ Max swiped his hand over his mouth and jaw and spun away. Just as quickly he faced her again and grabbed her wrist. __ou call me whatever crass SOB you want to._ He pulled her hand to the front of his jeans and cupped it over the unmistakable warm bulge behind his zipper. __his is what you do to me. I don__ know why you and me fit together this good. If I could take you to bed right now and finish this, I would._ He released her and backed away, raising his hands in apology. __ut that__ not what I__ here for. Neither one of us needs that kind of complication in our lives. I have to keep the mission in mind. I__ a cop. I have to think like a cop, not a..._ __ot a what?_ she asked, her voice barely a whisper. But he didn__ fill in the blank. __t__ not your job to deal with me. I__ damaged goods, Rosie. You can do better than me.

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Julie Miller

Kansas City Secrets

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He made what apology he could and hurried home, overjoyed that the satisfaction of his curiosity had preserved their love intact, and that, having feigned for so long, when in Odette's company, a sort of indifference, he had not now, by a demonstration of jealousy, given her that proof of the excess of his own passion which, in a pair of lovers, fully and finally dispenses the recipient from the obligation to love the other enough. He never spoke to her of this misadventure, he cased even to think of it himself. But now and then his thoughts in their wandering course would come upon this memory where it lay unobserved, would startle it into life, thrust it more deeply down into his consciousness, and leave him aching with a sharp, far-rooted pain.

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Marcel Proust

Swann's Way