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her. Her parents’ way of
    silently emphasizing the fact that she wasn’t welcome,
    Cami thought mockingly.
    How different families could be.
    Her parents rarely acknowledged her presence,
    and even when her mother did seem to notice Cami,
    it was with loving surprise. She never doubted her
    mother’s affection for her, simply Margaret’s ability to
    deal with the world with her husband in it. On the other
    hand, Cami’s uncle Eddy and Aunt Ella and had
    treated Cami like the daughter they never had. They
    had always been there for her.
    They had bought her senior prom dress for her,
    despite the fact that Cami hadn’t wanted to go.
    Thankfully, her friend Jack Townsend had had a friend
    willing to escort her, Archer Tobias, the son of the
    former sheriff. Archer was now Corbin County’s
    sheriff. Which surprised her considering the fact the
    barons had not backed his election.
    Her aunt and uncle had helped her get her a loan
    for college, and when Cami had lost her best friend
    that last week of college, it had been her aunt and
    uncle who had dried her tears.
    But even more important, when she had lost the
    one thing she had wanted above anything else in the
    world it had been Eddy and Ella who had rescued her.
    They had forced her to move out of her apartment and
    had brought her into their own home.
    Now Cami stood watching another friend being
    buried.
    As the Reverend Mayer drew the prayer to a
    close and the small crowd began drifting away, Cami
    made her way to the gravesite and the three men
    gathered there.
    “Rafer.” She stood in front of him, feeling just as
    vulnerable, just as weak and hungry, in the face of the
    powerful dominant male she faced, as she ever had.
    “Hey there, kitten.” He greeted her softly, the dark
    remnants of arousal in his voice sending heat flashing
    through her.
    She couldn’t avoid the arms that wrapped around
    her. She tried. She tried to make herself step back
    and then tried to make herself stiffen in his arms. She
    told herself she couldn’t feel this, couldn’t allow it, and
    she definitely couldn’t have him.
    It didn’t work.
    She felt herself soften against him involuntarily,
    and felt her arms go around his shoulders. Her face
    pressed against his powerful chest as she relished
    the subtle heat and powerful warmth that eased the
    chill inside her soul. She drew in the scent of him.
    Uniquely male, hinting at the dominance, at the sheer
    male strength that filled his body. Cami could feel her
    senses coming alive. The dormant warmth and
    sensuality flaring to life inside her, and reminding her
    of the pleasure she had once found in his arms.
    She let herself relish those seconds in his arms.
    Let herself revel in them and told herself she wasn’t
    going to allow anything more.
    She couldn’t allow anything more. She had nearly
    lost her will to survive when she lost their child. She
    couldn’t risk that again.
    “You’re as beautiful as ever, Cami,” he
    whispered against her ear. “And you make me just as
    damned hungry.”
    And he was hard.
    His cock pressed against her lower belly and she
    felt his hunger for her begin to burn. As well as her
    own. Heat built between her thighs as her clit
    awakened with a vengeance. Her womb clenched,
    sending a rush of breathlessness through her as she
    felt the liquid response to his touch dampen her
    pussy.
    She couldn’t, wouldn’t, allow herself to give in to
    it.
    Drawing back was even harder than slipping
    from his embrace and his hotel room three years
    before.
    “I’m sorry about your uncle,” she said, stepping
    back. “He was a good man.”
    “He was as unbending as steel and just as rigid.”
    Rafe was smiling, though, his blue eyes amused at
    the description.
    “But he loved the three of you,” she reminded
    Rafe softly.
    “He tolerated us anyway,” he tried to tease her.
    She could see the knowledge in his gaze,
    though, that she wasn’t returning the warmth, the
    teasing, where she had