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Her heart fluttered. “I do.”

“I’m not talking about in the courtroom.”

Her pussy thumped, and her lips quirked in a badass smile. “That just turned me on for some reason.”

He smirked, then kissed her forehead.

“This is not the place, and I understand that you’re very capable of taking care of yourself and fighting your own battles, but you don’t have to do that anymore, okay?”

“I don’t?”

“No. Because you’ve got me. Let your man fight your battles, baby.”

“I didn’t know I had a man anymore.”

His gaze warmed as his heart fluttered. “You do if you still want me.”

She threw her arms around his neck, and he crushed her against his hard chest with a tight embrace. Heat engulfed them both, and his lips pushed against her neck and rose up her throat.

“Let’s get out of here,” he murmured.

“Gladly.”

She pulled back to look into his gaze, and his lips dropped to her mouth. A burst of heated tingles showered them. It was the euphoria they remembered, rushing through their veins, igniting their fervor for one another.

A horn honked, and they both turned to Tina, who was mouthing:get a room!

They smirked, and Jacob ushered Carla inside his vehicle. Strolling around to the driver’s side, he took one last look at Lennox’s house before pulling away from the curb.

* * *

“Phoebe told you all of that?”Carla stared at Jacob, sitting in his lap on the sofa back at his home.

“She did.”

“When you say it all at once like that, it sounds awful. I mean. It is awful, but it sounds a thousand times worse.”

“There’s nothing worse than someone taking your trust for granted, drugging you, kidnapping you, then manipulating you to do his bidding.”

Even as the words came out of Jacob’s mouth, madness began radiating inside of him. He locked his jaw and took in a deep breath to rein in his insanity for the moment.

“I tried to beat his ass the morning I woke up,” she hesitated, worry in her eyes as she stared at him.

“Don’t be afraid to let it out.”

She swallowed. “The morning I woke up in his bed naked.”

She witnessed Jacob’s jaw clench and his eyes grew dark.

“There is no telling what that sick son-of-a-bitch did to you while you were out.”

“I had an examination done. There was no sex.”

“Sex is consensual.”

“I mean…” She paused and took in a breath. “There was no sexual assault.”

Silence grew between them as Jacob worked to keep his temper down and Carla wondered what he was thinking.