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back in the leather chair, content to simply stare at Chloe and consider the evening.  She was here, but damn if his body wasn’t protesting the lack of her body snuggled against his.  His erection had started the moment he’d walked into her apartment and had only intensified with that kiss.  He remembered that kiss by the car and almost cursed. 
     
    She was his responsibility.  He’d promised her father that he’d take care of her, get her out of that horrible job and get her back to Texas where he thought she belonged.  Chloe’s father, Jim, had his plan all worked out.  What Jim hadn’t anticipated was the independent pride and stubbornness his daughter had inherited. 
     
    Sam had to agree that , from the letters she’d written over the past few years, Chloe sounded miserable working for the advertising agency in New York .  But all the insight he had was through her father which, by its very nature, was tainted.  The dark circles under her eyes and the miniscule apartment she lived in would add credence to Jim’s opinion, but who knew what was going on in Chloe’s mind?  She was a beautiful woman with her soft brown hair his hands were aching to feel once again and that soft, peach like skin with a healthy glow.  Her gorgeous complexion was noticeable now that her eyes were closed but when they were open, no one noticed anything but her stunning brown eyes with their cat-like slant. 
     
    When Chloe looked at him, it felt like he’d been punched in the gut and all he wanted to do was to kiss her so she was as crazy as he always felt around her. 
     
    He liked looking at her and with her eyes closed in sleep, he fed his hungry eyes on her soft, full lips, her perfect skin and unbelievably long lashes.  He’d taken the pins out of her hair and the long, brown tresses were draped over her shoulder, curling around the full breast underneath the cream silk blouse. 
     
    He wanted her.  Painfully.  And after that explosive kiss in the parking lot, he knew that she wanted him as well.  He’d have to work slowly though.  Take it carefully.  She seemed to be a little spitfire but he didn’t mind that at all.  As long as all that passion and anger were directed at him. 
     
    He frowned, remembering the shorter man he’d found in her apartment earlier.  As soon as he’d seen the man, Sam had wanted to smash his face in.  Controlling the rage that someone was touching his Chloe, and he acknowledged to himself that that was the way he’d always thought of her ever since he’d seen her in college , he tamped down the jealousy.  At eighteen , she’d been way too young for him.  She’d needed to go out into the world, find out what she liked and disliked and then, when she was older, he’d try those waters again and see if she was still interested. He hadn’t been able to resist seeing her every few months though.  He’d taken her out to dinner, watched her laughed and made sure she was okay. 
     
    He’d said it was for her father, to check in on her and report back to him but that had been an outright lie.  He’d wanted to see for himself, to feast his eyes on her beauty and hear the excitement in her voice as she’d talked about her classes and the activities she’d been enjoying. 
     
    And then she’d stopped accepting his dinner invitations.  At first, he’d thought perhaps she was too busy, but the past few years, he’d wondered if perhaps she’d found a man she could fall in love with.  He’d tried to leave her alone, to find out for herself how life worked. 
     
    But when her father reported that she hadn’t been dating anyone consistently and she sounded so miserable in her job, Sam had decided that enough was enough.  If her father’s accident hadn’t happened, he would have found some way to get her back to Texas. 
     
    And now she was grown up.  She’d gone to college, she’d dated despite the fury that made him feel, and she’d experienced enough of