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lying to yourself. Isn’t that what you’ve always asked me to do?” he asked, and a challenge gleamed in his eyes. “The real woman---the woman that I love, she faced me earlier, moments before the fear took precedence, didn’t she? Like now, she trembled with anticipation, afraid yet eager at the prospect of what I’d do to her. And that woman is you…isn’t it, my sweet Olivia?”
         “No,” she said breathlessly, holding his stare. “I---”
         A dangerous look glinted in his eyes as he raised a finger to his lips. “Shhhhh…there you go again using words when they’re not needed,” he muttered in his deep and sexy tone. “Let the silence breathe in this crazy madness that’s between us. But, I don’t think that even it can withstand it.”
         Helpless, she stood transfixed.
        And again, she mulled at his magnificence.
         Breathing fast, she touched her lips, feeling her own self-destruction arriving.
         Their eyes met again.
         “Jarrod,” she breathed. “Please---”
         “Can I look at you?” he asked huskily, still not making any moves toward her, and released a hard breath. “You can never imagine how many nights you’ve haunted my dreams. I could literally taste you in the dark nights of my madness. And I remember just how sweet you taste.” His eyes locked with hers again, and his look was so vulnerable that she wanted to weep. “And you remember, too, don’t you, sweet baby? The way you tremble when I put my tongue deep inside you and wring every drop of honey from between your thighs.”
         “Jarrod---” she whispered, on the brink of tears. “Why are you doing this?”
         “Why am I doing this?” he whispered back, striding towards her slowly, and the tears shone in his eyes. When he stopped before her, she caught sight of the single tear streaming down his cheek. “Why are you doing this? After everything that we’ve done to get to this point, why are you turning away from me, Olivia? Why?” He grabbed her hand in his, raising to his lips, and then kissed the inside of her palm. As his tortured gaze met hers again, the bright tears glistened in his eyes. “These last weeks have been hell, and they proved one thing. I’m nothing but a shell of a man without you. Don’t ask me to go back to that dark place where I existed alone and too afraid to let anyone in. When the shit hits the fan with Addison, it’s going to take everything that we got to hold on. Fight for me…fight for us. I don’t want to spend another day without you.” His low words were desperate. “ I need you--”
         “I love you,” she wept, finally crumpling under the pressure, and stepped into his waiting arms. Shutting her eyes tight, she absorbed his strength. “I’m so scared, Jarrod, of what he’ll do to you and Meghan.” She pressed a wet cheek against his chest. “He said that he’d kill the both of you if you were to ever get close to me, again.” Desperate, she stepped back, looking up at him. She framed his face in her shaky hands. “How can I allow that to happen when I have the power to stop it? You and Meghan have been through enough, you’ve lost too much already. That’s why you have to walk away from me…that’s why you have to let me go---”
         “I’m not afraid of that bastard,” Jarrod spat, and fire blazed in his eyes. “If it’s a war that he wants, he sure in the hell is going to get one.”
         “And if you die, what happens then?” she asked, angered. “Meghan becomes a fatherless child, and I’m without you? How could you even ask me to contemplate such a thing?” She clung to his waist. “That’s why I need you to leave---until I can figure out how to fix this thing with Matt. There has to be a way.”
         “This vendetta is between Addison and me, not you. My only regret is that you’ve been caught in the crossfire,” he murmured, pulling her close,