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    Her body and brain warred against each other as her core clenched with a primal need for the one man she’d ever really wanted.
    Sitting up in bed, she swiped the hair from her face and admitted that waking up without him there beside her made her miss him, and it scared the hell out of a woman who was used to being just fine alone.

S everal days later, Zane was working in his underground lab, trying to figure out when Ellie Winters had become so damn stubborn. She’d been a sweet teenager, but somewhere along the way, the woman had developed an ornery, independent streak that seemed never-ending.
    So I replaced some of her belongings: a cell phone, a laptop, new clothing with some help from Lara, and a few other things that she needs for everyday life . They’re just essentials.
    Zane didn’t think what he’d done was any big deal. But he’d made Ellie emotionally upset, and he wasn’t even certain why she’d been weeping when he gave her the everyday stuff. He hadn’t asked why she’d cried because it made him feel sick inside that he’d been the cause of her tears. All he wanted was for Ellie to be happy, and apparently she had been making progress despite her previous tearful reaction to his gifts…until today.
    Today was the day he’d realized just how obstinate Ellie could really be.
    She had literally set her foot down, stomping it in refusal, when he’d brought home the new vehicle he’d acquired for her, flat-out refusing to take something he’d bought for her. She claimed it was too expensive. When he’d mentioned that she’d only had liability insurance on her missing vehicle, and that her insurance company wasn’t going to pay anything to replace her piece of junk Blue Turtle, she’d glared at him and walked away.
    “It’s just a BMW. She acts like I went out and bought something really expensive. The Beemer was a reasonable choice, something solid and dependable. It’s not like I went out and blew a bunch of money on an exotic sports car,” Zane mumbled under his breath as he recreated some of the findings of one of his lead scientists at the lab, rechecking the results himself. “And it’s an SUV. It’s practical for Colorado. Plenty of people have one here.”
    Granted, he wanted to see some of Ellie’s old spirit revived. But pissing her off wasn’t exactly the way he’d wanted that to happen. Nevertheless, she was angry. But regardless of how stubborn she was going to be, Zane decided she would be driving a dependable car, the one he’d purchased for her.
    After finishing his work, he input his verification into the lab computer and put away his supplies, wondering how he could get Ellie to accept the inevitable. She was going to use the SUV. He wanted her using a reliable vehicle. He didn’t want her buying another piece of crap like her last car. It had been too small, too old, too unreliable, and all of those things were unacceptable to him.
    He took off the disposable covering he was wearing over his clothing and then dumped his mask and gloves into the hazardous materials container he kept near the door.
    Zane could admit he was disorganized, but only with anything outside of his lab. Here , he was meticulous. Here , it mattered to him. Working with potentially dangerous organisms didn’t leave room for mistakes.
    He washed his hands and dried them before he stood in front of the steel doors and used his fingerprint scanner to make the double doors swoosh open. As he walked down the hallway and up the stairs that led to the house, he contemplated his options.
    Let Ellie have her way and return the BMW? Nope. Not gonna happen . She needs a safe vehicle.
    Convince Ellie to take it? Probably unlikely. Though, Zane admitted she’d looked pretty mulishly insistent over not accepting his gift. He realized that he liked that look on her. It was preferable to seeing her weep, but it wasn’t going to stop him from making sure she was driving dependable