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the fork across his plate and
steepled his hands. ”I’m not sure what you envisioned this night to
be. Tell me what you thought would happen.”
    Dena glanced in his direction before turning
her gaze back to her almost empty salad plate. Her chest rose and
fell once, twice, a third time before she spoke, her voice wobbly.
“I’d hoped to… I’d hoped you would…”
    A waiter appeared to take their plates and
she flinched.
    “ Go on, tell me, little
girl. What did you expect?”
    Finally, a response other than a hidden face.
Her eyes flashed with heat and held his, her glare proving she had
a backbone. With three brothers, she had to have a little inner
strength somewhere in her soul and he was glad to see it.
    “ I’m not a little
girl.”
    Her words came out in a flurry of subdued
anger, harsh, direct, but barely audible. She didn’t want to make a
scene in the restaurant, and her spunk almost made him smile, but
it wasn’t the time or place to applaud her fierceness.
    “ I’m a grown woman and my
brothers treat me like a baby. I just want an adventure, a life of
my own.”
    Her hand came up fast to cover her mouth and
her pretty hazel eyes went wide. She tried to stand but he’d have
none of it. His hand clamped down on her thigh to keep her in the
seat. Eye contact was immediate and he held her gaze until she
dropped her chin and focused on the napkin in her lap.
    Their food arrived and Dena leaned back in
the chair, her face a mask of calm control while her hands trembled
in her lap. Steve angled his body toward hers and said with quiet
authority, “Dena, eat and we’ll talk. I’m not angry. I want to
discuss this with you. Don’t be embarrassed.”
    “ Are you going to tell my
brothers what I did?”
    “ Do you really think Simon
wants to hear that you felt me up?”
    Her head swiveled to see his expression and
he smiled. Dena sucked her top lip into her mouth, bit down
lightly, and released it and her nervousness. She let out a soft
laugh. “I guess not.”
    He took a bite of his steak and watched her
cut into hers. Once it was in her mouth, he quietly said, “What
exactly did you expect to happen tonight?”
    Unable to respond with food in her mouth,
irritation flashed across her face.
    “ Ah-ah, stop and think about
your answer while you chew.”
    Her chewing slowed as he watched, and her
eyes slid shut. Not from the succulence of the food, but because
she’d taken his advice, and it warmed him a little more. Dena
Lindsay was a beautiful hot mess of a woman and from her response
to him, he was fairly certain she hadn’t had many men. Boys, maybe,
but not men.
    She looked into his eyes with conviction. “I
want a man in my life who won’t be intimidated by my brothers.”
    “ That’s been a problem
lately?” he asked, knowing the answer. Hell, if she was his sister,
he’d be standing on the front porch with a shotgun.
    Dena pursed her lips and blew out a puff of
air. “You know my brothers. What do you think? Every man I’ve dated
since high school has dumped me by the second week. A few even told
me they couldn’t deal with my family.”
    “ Honey, you’ve been dating
boys, not men.”
    A slim grin made him rethink his part in this
conversation. She might be innocent about men, but she was smart
about people in general.
    “ So where does that put
you?”
    He took another bite and she followed suit,
allowing him equal time to think, and he needed it. While he’d love
to take her to bed and make her scream, Simon would have a fit
about Steve’s lifestyle, and rightly so. Introducing his innocent
sister to bondage and submission was well past Simon’s comfort
zone.
    But the thought of giving this beautiful
young lady her first real orgasm was like a siren’s call.
    He wanted her.
    He wanted her wet and begging while he eased
his dick into her tight sheath.
    He wanted to watch her face when the climax
took her and she screamed his name.
    “ What do I get for being the
sacrificial