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sweet, so
perfect, Rebecca,” he whispered.
    Her breath caught at his words
and his touch. She stared into those beautiful blue eyes that were
holding hers so tenderly and possessively. He was still rock
hard—she could feel his erection against her thigh. But he
didn't try to remove her shorts and take her.
    He simply looked deep into her
eyes as he stroked her face. She could see the passion and desire in
his eyes, but she also saw something else. An unspoken,
indescribable sadness.
    Tentatively, she traced a
finger down the angles of his face, down his strong jaw and neck.
Why did his face seem so familiar? And his kiss?
    Unconsciously, she touched her
own lips with her trembling fingers. She seemed to remember his
kiss. But she had never kissed this beautiful man before, had she?
    His kiss was filled with
passion and poignancy, and she could sense his profound, almost
paralyzing pain.
    Levi had lost something dear
to him. He smiled at her, but she could see the deep longing and
sadness in the depths of his blue eyes.
    Rebecca opened her mouth, then
clamped it shut again. Would he tell her about his sorrows and his
troubles if she asked him? Or would she just make him uncomfortable?
    She was after all, still a
stranger to him. He had been assigned to protect her by the PAC,
that's all.
    She was nothing to him.
    But his kiss and his eyes told
her otherwise.
    She was everything to him.
    “ Levi...” she
began. She looked down and chewed her lip. Have we met before?
Have we...kissed before?
    Instead, she swallowed and
said, “Would you like to sleep with me?” As soon as the
words left her lips, she gasped and corrected herself, “I mean,
sleep in the house, with me, instead of out in the rain. But not sleep with me , as in...you know...” She could feel the
heat creeping up her neck to her face. You have already seen me
half naked, you might as well see me fully naked.
    Rebecca turned away to hide
her mortification at her own naughty thoughts.
    “ I mean...I can't let
you spend the night out there, in the cold, in the dark. It's not
safe,” she managed to stammer.
    Levi smiled at her. “I
appreciate that. Thank you, I'll sleep here on the couch then. It's
pretty comfortable, and it sure beats crouching under that tiny
slide. I'll see you to your room.”
    With that, he stood and
carried her across the living room.
    “ I can walk to my
bedroom,” she protested, but he didn't seem to hear her. He
pushed into the bedroom and laid her onto the creaky bed. He turned
and pulled a big t-shirt draped on the back of a chair and began to
dress her. Then he kissed her on the forehead.
    “ Goodnight, Rebecca,”
he murmured.
    She gave up trying to resist
her big, hunky and rather bossy protector, and simply let him tuck
her in.
    She yawned, suddenly feeling
exhausted. “Goodnight, Levi. And thank you.”
    He pulled the door shut
quietly as he exited her room.
    Rebecca turned to her side and
blinked sleepily at the window. She had never felt like this before.
This feeling was entirely new to her.
    Rebecca felt herself smiling
as her eyelids drifted shut. For the first time in a long, long
while, she felt safe.
    She felt safe and secure with
Levi in the house with her. He was sweet, sexy, steady, and it had
felt so right being with him. In fact, she was quite sure that it
would feel perfect to have him in her bed. But—what would he
think of her?
    She was a stripper, but that
was just a job. Just because she was a stripper didn't mean she was
a slut.
    That was what her ex kept
going on and on about. He derided her job, insulted her profession,
disrespected her and abused her, but he had no problem spending all
the money that she earned in her slutty, shameful job.
    Rebecca squeezed her eyes shut
and tried to just go to sleep. Reliving her horrific experience with
Phin was no way to heal and move forward. She had to let go and just
forget about everything. But was forgetting really the answer? She
had this strange,