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about it after we get this shit handled. Thanks. See you in a few.”
    He ended the call and set the phone down, leaning into the counter with his head bowed. He’d made a mistake? That couldn’t have meant me. I really, really hoped it didn’t mean what had happened. Not after the way we’d talked in the dark before he left my bed. A low chill gathered in my belly, regardless.
    While I watched unnoticed from the doorway he reached across the counter and gripped a sheaf of papers in his hand, stared at them for a second, then tossed them down again with a curse. His knuckles whitened when he gripped a ballpoint pen and stabbed the tip to the bottom edge of one sheet and scribbled something there, then shoved everything aside.
    He turned, then, and stopped cold when his eyes landed on me.
    “Holy shit, Casey,” he bit out, scowling for a split second. His eyes swept over me and his expression softened, his gaze growing heated. “Christ,” he said, licking his lips and letting his look linger over my bare breasts.
    “This is what you wanted, isn’t it?”
    “I …” he faltered and swallowed. “Yeah, baby. You look …” He sighed deeply and shook his head, his reaction causing my own eager anticipation to deflate. “Listen. I made a mistake last night. We shouldn’t have done what we did, but I was … Fuck, there’s no excuse for it. I’m sorry.”
    “No …” I turned my head slowly back and forth to try to suppress the humiliation that sent a chill washing through me beginning with a tingling sensation at the top of my scalp. “Tell me why. Did you have second thoughts because of Mom?”
    It was the first time I’d even thought about my mother since I’d come home the night before. She was gone so often and we barely got along as it was when she was home. It would have been kind to say that I resented her and the fact that she had him. I resented her even more now.
    “Not exactly,” he said. “Well, indirectly maybe. Just go back upstairs and get dressed. We can talk about it after. Please .”
    A raw sensation clutched at my belly and the cold flood of humiliation was replaced by hot anger. “Fuck that,” I said. “Do you expect me to just forget what happened? The things you showed me … You can’t just expect me to stop now. I don’t care why I got so lucky, but I have to know why you won’t give me more.”
    “Your mother’s divorcing me, Case.” He picked up the papers he’d been looking at and waved them in the air. “I got these yesterday while you were out. Last night happened because of my messed up judgment. I was pissed and hurt and decided to take it out on you in a way I shouldn’t have — I saw it as getting back at her, but it got out of control. Jesus, do you have any idea how wrong it was?”
    “I loved it,” I said softly.
    He winced. “You’re just a kid. You don’t know any better.”
    “I’m eighteen and I know enough to know Mom doesn’t deserve you. I don’t think she ever really understood you, did she? I just know that I’ve never really understood myself so well as I did last night with you. I thought these cravings I had made me a freak, but you made everything make sense. Daddy … Max … if you don’t show me what you know, I’ll learn about it some other way. I have to know more. I have to know everything.”
    I hated myself a little for the pleading. It wasn’t something I liked to do, but after a taste of what Max could offer, I wasn’t ready to let it end yet.
    “Baby, I hear you. Just get dressed, okay? Rick will be here any second. I don’t want him to see you like that.”
    “What if I want him to see me?” I raised my chin higher and pushed my shoulders back, making my breasts stick out more. “Maybe he can teach me what you won’t. I bet the knows your secrets, doesn’t he? That would make two of us.”
    “Fucking hell, Casey,” he growled as he stormed past me into the living room and up the stairs. At the same moment a