An unthinkable betrayal sours Cody into anything but serious commitments with women. He'll wine them, dine them, and sleep with them but he's set in his ways. His heart is under lock and key and emotions have no place in his bed.

Then he meets Alina...

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Suddenly the air between us was electrified, and I was acting on pure fucking lust.

I walked until her back was up against the wall. She gasped at the impact, her lips parting. The pupils in her startled eyes dilated. The warm color filling her cheeks made me wonder if her nipples were the same color. I watched her little pink tongue come out to run across her bottom lip, and that's when something inside me snapped.

I grabbed her and swung her around so that she was facing the wall, reveling in her gasp of shock—or was it excitement? I then dragged her arms up above her head, placing her palms flat against the wall, and leaned my weight against her.

"Don't be scared," I whispered into her ear, nuzzling her silky skin and inhaling deeply.

"I'm not." Her full-body shiver contradicted her words.

I ran my nose up and down the side of her neck, sucking in another deep breath. "I haven't been able to get you off my fucking mind since yesterday," I confessed in a low rasp. "Even while I let another woman go down on me, you were the one I was thinking of." I wanted Alina to know what kind of bastard I was.

I wanted to scare her away.

I felt the change come over her as the words left my mouth. As her body stiffened against me and she made a slight movement to pull away, I tightened my hands around her slender wrists and leaned in closer, trapping her with my body. Her breathing hitched up. She wanted to be angry, but I could tell she was turned on.