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leapt
up, preventing her from leaving. He clapped his hands together.
    “I’ll
get us some coffee. Really, now, this should be a time of celebration.
Both of you have suffered a loss, but you’re inheriting a life-changing amount
of money. This might be the best thing that’s ever happened to you two.
Especially since you are family. Neither of you are alone anymore.”
    “I don’t
want his type of company,” Shay said.
    I
grinned. “I thought we had a nice time together.”
    “Next
time I’ll drown in my drink.”
    “Wouldn’t
have been nearly as fun.”
    William
faked a smile. “That’s the spirit. I’ll get us some coffee and let you two hash
this out before we discuss the will.”
    I
nodded. “Thank you, sir.”
    The
door closed. I expected Shay to launch at my neck. She didn’t. Instead, she
stung me with a scowl that shamed me so much my mother would have blushed…if
she weren’t dead. Though, hell, even when she was alive she botox’d her cheeks
beyond human expression. Between the fake tits and whatever the hell she
injected in her ass, my mom seduced Darnell Franklin and finally secured a
man’s fortune for herself just before the end.
    But
she did it. She married him, got the money for all the summer homes and
prescription drugs she wanted, then died before they built the second home in
the Hamptons. Everything passed to me. Shay had every right to be pissed.
    I’d
still take the money. I needed something to change my luck. This was it.
    Shay
said nothing. It was better than cursing me out, though I knew she could
deliver every profanity she promised. I remembered her sweet and sultry words, teased
from a tongue that had no business feeling as good as it did on my cock.
    I
shouldn’t have gotten hard again, but even angry, she was the sexiest woman I
ever saw.
    “You…”
She gritted her teeth. “You are going to move your ass outta here. By the time
you get to your car? You’ll forget everything that my family’s attorney
said. This.” She waved around the office. “Is none of your concern.”
    “I know
you’re mad.”
    “Mad?
No. Na-uh. I’m not mad.” She pointed me toward the door. “If I was mad, that’d
mean I’ve give one goddamned fuck about you.”
    “Last
time we were together you gave quite a few fucks about me.”
    “Are
you serious?” Shay edged closer to me. “You think you get to smile and flirt
and then take my father’s money and skip out of here?”
    She couldn’t
intimidate a swatting kitten, but I wasn’t going to give her leverage over me.
I stood, and my bulk towered over her.
    I couldn’t
train while I was in the hospital, and my physical therapy didn’t include a
trip to the weight room. But after I recuperated, I didn’t just get back in the
saddle. I tamed a new horse and bought the fucking ranch. I trained better,
worked harder, and it showed. My strength wasn’t for bragging rights. It saved
my ass in the middle of Tikrit. And now I was bigger and badder than ever.
    Shay
Franklin didn’t scare me, but she’d bring me to my knees for another reason.
    “What’s
wrong, sis?” I asked. “We’re family now. Cut me a break.”
    She
hesitated, and I saw the wheels turning. She wondered if she could get away
with saying something insulting. Her relationship with her father was no
mystery, but I said nothing about my mother during our night together. She left
the dead relatives out of our fight.
    “So…are
you just some big pervert then?” She asked.
    “Pervert?”
    “We
had…” Shay covered her eyes. “Sweet Jesus, we might have committed a felony. I
don’t even know if what we did was legal. You’re really sick, you know that?”
    “No,
I’m not.”
    “We
slept together.”
    Best
night of my life. “Yeah, so?”
    “ So ?”
Her voice shrilled. She clenched her fists. “Did you know ?”
    “Know
what?”
    Her
kissable lips pouted. She had no idea how sexy she was, even when poised to
attack.
    “Did
you know that our parents