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remarkable display of protectiveness.
    Since she hadn’t dated anyone for quite some time, they nixed the idea of a pissed-off ex-boyfriend, which left them right where they’d started. With nada.
    “I’m going out with Nate,” Adam said, as Nate rose to leave. “I need to make a phone call and do some checking around. I won’t be gone long.”
    He waited while Nate hugged Nikki goodbye, then stood and moved to where she sat on the couch. He leaned over, rested his hands on the back of the couch on either side of her head and whispered, “When I come back, be wearing something a little…less.”
    Her mouth dropped open and a flash fire ignited in her warm brown eyes while pink spread across her cheeks.
    He winked, stepped back and exited the coach before she had time to respond, either verbally or physically.
    If this hadn’t been so important to him he would have found her outrage humorous.
    Instead, he found himself uncharacteristically unnerved. Since the first time they’d met, her jokes and body language had been like jagged stepping stones. They’d led him down 32
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    a path to her private thoughts and fantasies and he’d come to the conclusion she was a sexual submissive.
    Even though he knew she felt the same attraction he did, she’d been determined to keep him at a distance, making him wait a year and a half for the opportunity to confirm his suspicions. Based on the questions she’d asked in the car, and the way her heart had raced when he’d held her wrist, she was at least curious about dominance and submission. Now, he had to get her to understand the dynamics of the relationship and give him a chance to prove how incredible it could be.
    As he walked back to the coach fifteen minutes later, he found himself holding his breath and considering two possible scenarios awaiting him. The first being, in some form or fashion, she’d have done as he asked. Or, she’d be waiting at the door with a baseball bat.
    Cautiously, he pushed open the door of the coach and cast a quick look around. Not immediately seeing her, he eased inside, edgy as a beat cop walking into a possible trap.
    As he moved through the kitchenette toward the back of the coach, he caught sight of her through the partially opened bathroom door and stopped dead in his tracks. She was brushing her teeth and wearing the sexiest bra and panties set he’d ever seen. It wasn’t the contrast of the teal fabric against her dark skin or her well-toned body that knocked the air out of his lungs—although her long legs, narrow waist and round breasts definitely demanded attention. What made her so incredibly beautiful to him was she’d followed his request.
    He’d intentionally been vague when asking her to change, allowing her to feel, at least to some degree, in control. Since she was wearing nothing more than her bra and panties, his suspicions about her submissive tendencies were confirmed. And the Dominant in him came roaring forth.
    He moved to the bathroom door and watched as she finished brushing her teeth and then began pulling a brush through her thick, black hair. Although she pretended not to know he was standing there, her shallow breathing and beaded nipples gave her away.

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    Because of her independent nature and fierce personality, he recognized the enormous amount of time and patience it would require to get her to relinquish control in this area of her life. But he was encouraged because on a gut-deep level she already recognized her body’s need to submit or she wouldn’t have been dressed this way.
    He watched the flutter in her neck and smiled. Despite the protests her mind might throw out, it was obvious her body wanted it this way and had already crossed over to the dark side.
    His side.
    He slid the bathroom door the rest of the way open and moved into the small space with her.
    “Did you ever hear of knocking?” she snapped, as