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The Fire I Can’t Put Out

Author: Redcherry
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Chapter 11

Ryker’s POV

The night still clings to me.

Even as I sit at this polished conference table, listening to old men drone on about numbers and expansion plans, my mind isn’t here. It’s back in that dimly lit room, tangled in silk sheets and the intoxicating scent of the woman who refuses to surrender to me.

I should have stayed away. I should have let her bathe in peace, let her convince herself she could erase me with soap and scalding water. But I couldn’t.

I had to see her.

Had to remind her.

She fights me, but her body betrays her. The way she shudders under my touch, the way her breath catches when I get too close, I see it. I feel it. And last night? She almost broke.

Almost.

I rub my jaw, suppressing the growl threatening to escape. She still defies me. Even when I kiss her, claim her, pull her into the depths of the fire we both burn in, she resists.

And it drives me insane.

My thought drift to the wedding I called off but then, I heard my name.

“Alpha Ryker, do you ha
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