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Chapter 33

As she had feared, her body had betrayed her, and she woke lying against him for the fourth morning in a row. He was hard with desire, and his erection against her hip felt so right that she almost forgot everything that had happened. Almost. It was a daily struggle to pull out of his arms and pretend as if she hadn’t been sleeping in his arms just as intimately as she had once done, without the sex.

Madison wiggled to put some room between them and started to slide from the bed. She froze when he grasped her wrist, slowly stroking his thumb across the underside of her arm. “Stop that.” She tried to tug away, but he held fast, though his grip wasn’t painful. “Let go. I need to use the facilities.” That was no lie, but it was a good excuse to slip away too.

He let go of her hand with obvious reluctance. “Go and get ready then. I have a surprise for you.”

She arched a brow. “Oh? I don’t care what it is. I don’t want anything from you.”

With a long sigh, he rolled out of his s