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more. How would she respond to bondage? He pushed his cock into her tight sheath.
    “Yes,” she whimpered as he began to thrust inside her faster, harder. The sound of his thighs pounding against hers as loud as—
    The knocking on his office door recalled him to the present.
    “Professor Wallace?”
    Shit, he’d been a minute away from actually coming in his pants like a fifteen-year-old boy—from an inappropriate daydream about a student. He was in worse shape 26
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    than he realized. He moved forward until the lower half of his body was concealed beneath his large desk.
    “Yes,” he called out.
    Jennifer Smythe entered. “I was hoping I could talk to you about my courses for next semester.”
    He nodded, working overtime to resume his calm, cool advisor demeanor, forcing the fantasy of fucking Keira Collins out of his mind.
    “Of course, Jennifer. Please come in. Have a seat.” It was going to be a damn long day. Hell, it was going to be a long two weeks.
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    Mari Carr

Chapter Three
    “Keira, why don’t you call it a night? You’ve been working your ass off the past couple of weeks and you look like dog shit.”
    “Thanks, Tris. Great compliment.”
    Tristan flashed his typical annoying brother smirk then poured a glass of merlot, setting it on the bar before the blonde who’d planted herself right under his nose earlier in the evening. The woman was working overtime to catch her brother’s attention and, for some reason, he wasn’t taking the bait. Keira had begun to wonder if Tristan wasn’t interested in someone else. In the past, he’d been the ultimate womanizer, never passing up the chance to charm the pants off a lady, but lately she’d noticed he kept to himself. She sighed. Just one more thing she hadn’t had time to think about since struggling through this semester’s courses.
    For the past two weeks she’d been living on virtually no sleep. Working at the restaurant, studying for finals, revising her English papers and fantasizing about Professor Wallace had sucked up every available second of her life. Her family had taken a backseat and the idea that she was letting too many things slide in regards to them was bugging the hell out of her.
    In addition to Tristan’s sudden disinterest in women, Sean’s graduation from high school was coming up in a month and she’d yet to begin plans for a celebration. Her father was still working too hard and she wasn’t even sure he was taking the medication the doctor had prescribed. Teagan had a nasty cold, which had curtailed her singing and put her out of sorts. Riley was going through some sort of bizarre Hell’s Kitchen phase, pissing off all the kitchen assistants and causing them to quit, which was driving Ewan insane as he was in charge of hiring replacements.
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    The Collins siblings were heading toward a major blowup and Keira felt responsible for the heated tension hovering over the pub.
    In the past, she’d been the counselor, the voice of reason, the calming influence.
    Since her decision to go to college, the past two years had cranked the treadmill of her life up to top speed and she felt helpless as she watched all the people she cared about getting tossed off the track.
    “Earth to Keira.” Tristan waved a hand in front of her face. “It’s Thursday night and the place is dead. Joyce and I can take care of things. Go get some sleep.” She shrugged, aware that sleep wasn’t something she seemed capable of anymore.
    She’d walked out of Professor Wallace’s classroom for the last time yesterday and all she could hope was that eventually her intense fantasies about the man would die down. Until then, she seemed doomed to restless sleep that left her body aching and needy in ways she couldn’t begin to understand or attempt to explain to her brother.
    “Can I get you something to drink?” Tristan asked someone who had walked up to the bar.
    “I was hoping perhaps this lovely woman could wait on