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the excruciating pain when they stitched me up. The next day the same
Soviet police came by and wrote my father a ticket.”
    â€œ For what?”
    â€œ Some trumped-up missing paperwork charge. Mostly
they needed an excuse to explain why a dog that was supposed to be
protecting people, attacked a child unprovoked.”
    â€œ Jesus. The police twisted it around so it was
your fault?”
    â€œ Stuff like that happened all the time when we
were under Soviet rule. Law enforcement there is nothing like it is
here. So, we had to stay in Kiev another three weeks, during which I
got an infection.” She shuddered. “I ended up back in the
hospital and almost died. I’ve had…issues with dogs ever
since, which is why my first instinct is to run.”
    Rage filled him. Yet he managed a calm, “Where did
the dog bite you?”
    â€œ You asked, I answered, so can we drop it now? It
doesn’t matter.”
    Cam stood. He braced his hands on the armrest of her
chair and demanded, “Where did the dog bite you?”
    Her pale eyebrows lifted above the rims of her
sunglasses. “The first mark is on the back of my left shoulder
and the second one is on my hip.”
    â€œ Lemme see.”
    â€œ Cam. It’s not important.”
    â€œ Then it shouldn’t be such a big goddamned
deal to let me see it.” Why was he pushing her on this?
    Because you want her to be physically scarred, same
as you. You want to see it so you don’t feel like such a freak.
    In angry, jerky movements, Domini slid the shirt down
her left shoulder. She dropped her chin to her chest, leaving the
nape of her neck exposed.
    Oh fuck. His stomach clenched. The jagged edges of the
white scar tissue showed where the dog had ripped a huge chunk of her
skin off. Whatever sawbones had treated her in the Ukraine managed to
piece it together, but not very well. How had he missed feeling those
ridged scars last night?
    Because you were selfish and then you were gone.
    Seeing that broken section of her skin broke something
inside him. He placed his mouth against her warm, sweet-smelling
flesh and tenderly pressed kisses across every inch of the scar. And
when he finished the first pass, he did it again.
    Domini’s breath caught.
    Cam dragged his mouth over the sexy arch of her neck,
pushing aside the baby-fine strands of hair. He brushed his damp lips
to her ear and murmured, “See, that wasn’t so hard,”
before easing back and retaking his seat.
    She hadn’t removed her sunglasses, but he knew she
was watching him very closely.
    â€œ So what’s churning inside that pretty head
of yours, princess?”
    â€œ I was just thinking I still run from situations
that scare me. Dogs. People.”
    â€œ Do I scare you because I’m a cop?”
    She shook her head.
    â€œ Good.”
    â€œ But that’s not entirely true. I’ve
never been in this situation before.”
    â€œ What situation is that?”
    â€œ Asking you for something.”
    â€œ You afraid I’ll deny you?”
    Domini shrugged. “Given our past…situation,
maybe I am a little afraid you’ll think I’m weird for
what I want.”
    Cam reached out to reassure her, but thought better of
it. Now was the time for talking, not touching. “Try me.”
    â€œ It’s about sex. At least, I’m
assuming we’re going to have sex.”
    Sweet Jesus. Hopefully she wasn’t one of those
stump fetish freaks who could only get off with amputees. He’d
never been with a woman like that, but lots of guys he’d met at
the VA talked about being approached by women—and men—with
that bizarre fetish. “So if I say, yes, I’m ready to nail
you right now…you’d say?”
    â€œ Yes.” She removed her sunglasses and locked
her gaze to his. “I’d say what I really want is for you
to take control of me during sex. Just like you did last