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Again.”
    Minutes later, seconds before him, she screamed out her release, her hot, wet sheath milking him hard.
    “ Yes,” he muttered as he thrust one last time and filled her.
    She was his. He could feel her breath against his neck, his chest felt the thunder of her heart, he felt the beat of it deep inside her.
    He wasn ’t letting her put walls up between them again.
    “ I’m thinking, if I have to keep you in bed twenty-four-seven that would be okay,” he whispered.
    “ What?” she gasped.
    He rolled to the side, pulling her with him and tucking her up against him. “In here, in bed, us. You’re honest.”
    She stiffened, then tried to r ise up, but he tightened his hold on her.
    “ I’m always honest.”
    “ No one’s always honest. You’ve got walls, babe. Everyone has ‘em in areas of their lives. You just have more and yours are convent high.” He bent his elbow and shoved the pillow behind his head, and looked down at her.
    Her hazel eyes glittered at him.
    “ Am I wrong?”
    Her lips tightened. He grinned at her, then closed his eyes and blew out a breath. “Not wasting any more time. I want you. You want me. I don’t give a shit you see ghosts. Hell, you want to hold séances and speak to the dead, I’ll build you a room just for that. Long as you don’t charge anyone for that, we got no problems.”
    “ I don’t hold séances. That opens doors. You shouldn’t open doors with the others because you don’t know what could come through.”
    Chills danced over his skin at her words. His grandmother often said the same things and she had held séances.
    “ Point, babe. The point is, I don’t care. If you see them, if you get knocked on the head and don’t suddenly see them, fine. That’s you.” He rolled again so she was partially under him. “What I do care about is you hiding this from me. I care that it can hurt you. I see that. Saw that this morning. Yesterday morning. When-the-hell-ever. Don’t like seeing you hurt. Or worried. Or scared.
    “ So get this now. I’m not leaving things as they were. You want to say we’re just friends, I’ll give you that, even though we both know it’s a lie. I like sleeping beside you, though God knows I can count on one hand the number of times that’s happened. I like knowing you’re safe, so frankly, I don’t want to do things your way anymore. I want us to try for more. I’m here with you or you’re at my place, we talk about our days, what we plan for the next, something funny that happened, something horrible that happened, though that last’ll probably be me more than you. We’re going to see where this goes with us. We’ve got something and I’m not sitting back and waiting, wondering when you’re going admit that anymore.”
    A brow arched.
    “ You got something to add?”
    She opened her mouth, then shut it, took a deep breath and opened it again. “I’ve a lot to add, but it’s not nice.”
    He stared at her.
    “Mike, I’m complicated. Sometimes I just want to be left alone.”
    “I got you ’re complicated a long time ago.” He shook his head at her. “I’ll give you space, but baby, last thing you need is alone. You’ve been alone far too much in your life. You need someone you can count on.”
    “Y ou think that’s you?”
    “I know it’s me.”
    A small grin played at one corner of her mouth. “I’ll think about it. But I’m not easy to get along with.”
    “ Think I got that, babe. You give stubborn a whole new definition.”
    “ And I’ve got walls for reasons.”
    “ Got that too.”
    “ I don’t like that you just come and tell me we’re doing this.”
    “ You came too.”
    She huffed out a breath. “That is not what I meant. I swear sex’s all you think about.”
    “ You’re naked in bed with me, just came hard, of course I’m thinking of sex. I can multi-task, which is why we’re talking now.”
    “ Mike. I don’t like being told what to do.”
    He stared into her eyes. “Got