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“You’re here now and apparently I can’t do anything about that.

“But let me make one thing very clear. I don’t want your sympathy, Alexis. I’m all sympathized out.”

“I can see that,” she said. Her voice was dry and calm but he could see the shadows in her dark chocolate brown eyes and he knew he’d hurt her.

He closed his own eyes briefly and dragged in a leveling breath. He hadn’t meant to be so harsh, but it was his default setting these days. “I’m going for a shower,” he said tightly and left.

He’d fought against this happening. He’d known, logically, that one day his defenses would be worn down. He just never imagined those defenses would be stormed by the one woman in the whole world he’d hoped never to see again and yet still craved with a hunger he could never assuage.

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Wanting What She Can’t Have

is part of The Master Vinters series: Tangled vines, tangled lives