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the sounds of her heavy breaths. He brushed the tangles of her hair away and cupped her face in his hands as he took in the sight of her dark, glazed eyes and flushed cheeks. “I’m gonna love you so good that no other man will ever have a chance to break your heart ever again.”
    In his arms, her body went rigid. She pulled away and looked at him, her brows furrowed and her expression dark, making Luke wish he could take back the words. The hurt he’d caused her was obviously still close to the surface and unlike the countless other women who’d fallen for his lines, all he’d managed to do with Kayleigh was reopen wounds that hadn’t completely healed.
    Fuck
.
    “Oh my god.” The words left her mouth with a rueful laugh. She scrubbed her hands over her face. “I am
such
an idiot!”
    “Kayleigh.” An apology sat at the tip of his tongue. A tome’s worth of purple prose that would dampen the panties of droves of women. But Kayleigh would see through those trite words. Even after all this time, she knew the barest parts of him. The exposed and raw nerves that he’d never shown to anyone but her. “Come on, baby. Let’s leave the past where it belongs, yeah?” He tried to pull her close once again but she resisted. “Can’t we just be in the moment? Enjoy each other? There’s nothing wrong with living in the present. Let me make you feel good.”
    She stared at him, aghast. Yup, he’d fucked that up royally. God
damn
it. Kayleigh had his number. He wasn’t going to get away with shit.
    She disengaged from his embrace, snatched the discarded blanket from the floor, wrapping it around her body like a shield. It didn’t matter that she’d blocked her body from his view though. Luke knew every inch of her. All he had to do was close his eyes to be back in that moment when she’d been his.
    “Why are you really here, Luke?” Tears glistened in the dark depths of her eyes and his heart clenched. “You don’t get enough of playing with women’s emotions on tour so you came home to fuck with mine? Or are you running from something?”
    Yep, she had his number all right. He took a step back to give her a little space. How could he possibly make her understand? “Baby—”
    “
Don’t
call me that.” Her hurt flared into an indignant fire in an instant. “I’m not that fifteen-year-old girl anymore that you can manipulate with your pretty words. It was stupid of me to invite you in. I should have turned my back on you like you did on me. It’s a mistake I’m not going to make again, though.”
    Fire and ice. That was Kayleigh to a tee. He deserved every one of her harsh words. All of her anger and then some. He wanted it all from her. He wanted to feel something real and honest for a change. “I told you I was a son of a bitch, baby. I won’t say I’m sorry for coming here tonight or for what just happened. But I will apologize for what went down when I left you. I owe you that much.”
    She gave a derisive snort. “Well, isn’t that big of you. You know,
Lucifer,
that whole ‘it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission’ thing was cute when you were a kid but it’s not going to fly now. I don’t want or need an apology for what happened a lifetime ago.”
    “Jesus, Kayleigh. We were
kids
!” Was she going to hold what happened against him forever? “The ranch had just barely started turning a profit and Ryder had Jase’s tuition to pay. What in the hell was I supposed to do? Sit around here and play at the fucking coffee shop? I had to go out there and make something happen. You’re going to hold my ambition against me?”
    “I never had a problem with your ambition, Luke. Or your bank balance. What I have an issue with is the way you left me in your wake as soon as you had your diploma and your mama’s blessing to leave town. You didn’t even try to include me in your future. Do you know how that made me feel?”
    Her angry shout only served to fuel Luke’s own ire. Walking