CHAPTER NINETY NINE

Bree stayed in the living room while Ryder showered, her body still burning and needing from that stunt he'd pulled on her back there.

She'd come so close to begging him to take her........

What had he been thinking touching her like that?

Probably hoped to get her right back into his bed like nothing had happened between them and he didn't just up and disappear on her for months, until now.

Good thing she wasn't that naive, obtuse thing he'd played like the pied Piper to his bed back then.

No, she was a stronger, better and wiser woman, a soon to be mother to their child and........she still wanted him and might have let him have her just then if he hadn't called quits .

Fuck.

That's not how this is supposed to be but yet.......

How is it still possible to want just this one man after everything she's been through thanks to him?

Maybe she was just born with this mighty, insatiable appetite for hurt, verbal abuse and hea