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She looked down at her hands uncomfortably, but he wasn’t finished. “This man has probably been in love with you his whole life, and he was forced to convince you he wanted to be a woman,
and
he still managed to make you fall in love with him along the way. You have to cut that man a break. He’s good.”

Flower let a bark of laughter escape. He was good.

“What makes you think I’m in love with him?”

“I’m good too.”

“Of that,” she said dryly. “I have no doubt.”

Bradley paced the floor, wearing a hole in the rug, as he tried to call Flower for the thousandth time. Her phone went straight to voicemail, and he started to leave yet another message when someone knocked on the door. He moved to answer it with the phone still pressed to his ear. He opened it to find Flower standing there, and he let the phone fall to his side. She was twisting her hands as if unsure of her welcome, but she pressed on showing her usual bravery. “So how about this one? What if I just get a tattoo of your name, and then I’ll never be able to undress in front of anyone else ever again, because they’d all be like, who’s Bradley? I mean, Brad.”

He wanted to throw his arms wide and crow out loud but instead said, “Bradley’s fine, and you’re not going to undress in front of anyone else anyways. You’re too self-conscious.” And, he added silently, she belonged to him and he would kill them.

“Yeah, that’s probably the donuts,” she admitted.

“No. Your body is perfect. It’s more likely because crazy old aunt Millie told you that if anyone ever saw your hoo-ha you’d end up dead in some godforsaken foreign country just like your parents.”

“There’s that too.”

“Do you want to come in?” he asked, stepping back so she could pass.She pointed at the phone that still hung loosely at his side. “Do you need to finish your call?”

He looked down at the phone and threw it in the general direction of the couch. “I was calling you.”

“Oh, yeah. Sorry, I still haven’t put my SIM card back in my phone yet. It’s been kind of peaceful without it.”

He winced at the mention of her phone. “Sorry about that.”

“Don’t be, I’m not. If you hadn’t taken that card out, I would not have gotten to enjoy a few days off work. Everyone would have been bombarding me with questions as usual.”

He wanted to laugh at her blowing off his bad deeds, but he wasn’t going to let her gloss them over. “You know as well as I do that’s not why I took it. On that note, there are a few things I need to clear up.”

Walking over to his phone, he popped off the back and pulled out his own SIM card. Reaching over, he tucked it into Flower’s front pocket. “You have always been on a pedestal with me. I could have stayed here in Abernathy throughout the entire investigation and no one ever needed to know that I was dressing up as a woman, but I knew the queens would love your fashion line. By the way, for the most part the majority of the queens are good people.”

“You humiliated yourself in front of your sisters and your entire hometown so I could sell some dresses?”

He shrugged. “My sisters already thought the worst of me; I only confirmed things in their minds. I know what I did was wrong, but there is nothing I wouldn’t do for you.”

“I’m not letting you off the hook, if that’s what you’re thinking. As a matter of fact I’m sinking the hook in a little further.”

He shifted uncomfortably at her words since that didn’t sound at all good. It sounded a lot like he was about to get lambasted again. She twisted her hands again, and his eyes fixed on them. She was nervous, and everything was his fault so he would stand here and listen to whatever she needed to say to him then he would go see her tomorrow just so he could hear it again and then again the day after that then so on and so on until she felt like he endured enough penance. Then maybe, just maybe, she would give him another chance with no lies left between them.

“I’ve decided there really is only one way you can make this up to me.”

One way? That sounded shorter than his plan—shorter was better. “What’s that?”

“Well, after thinking about the past few years, I’ve decided the only thing you did that really hurt me was making me have to live without you. The only way you can truly make that up to me is to marry me.”

“Come again?” he asked, completely floored.

“It’s the answer to everything. Plus I just really want to be married to you.”

“Are you shitting me?” he asked through numb lips.

She started twisting her fingers again, and all the feeling returned to his extremities as he realized she really was serious. She wanted to marry him, and wouldn’t you know it, he wanted to marry her too. “You’re right. I’ll never learn my lesson unless you marry me. I think it should be soon too. Like tomorrow. I think you need to start punishing me right away.”

“You think of being married to me as punishment?”

He nodded at her question. “Uh-huh, I think you should spank me too.”

She reached out pinching his side until he twisted away. “Okay, ow ow. I was joking.”

He snagged her hand pulling her flush against him. “I was serious about marrying you tomorrow though. I’m not letting you slip away from me again. I’ve spent too many years secretly wishing you were mine for that.”

A dreamy look appeared on her face. “Really?”

“Good grief, what the hell is wrong with you woman? Are you blind?”

“You know better than anyone that there is a four-eyed little girl inside of me,” she joked. He dropped his forehead to hers and stared down into her eyes. “I know no such thing. You’ve always been perfect to me.”

THE END

AUTHOR BOOKSHELF

A Secure Heart

A Splash of Hope

Ace

Being his Favorite

Blue Cheesecake

Bryant

Danger Undercover

Double the Sin

Lust & Longing

Of Ghosts and Dreams

Paul

Sarah’s Dirty Secret

The-Adonis

The Agent

The Assassin

The Assignment

The Danger with Sinners

The Informant

The Society of Sinners

Undefeated

Walt

Wicked Sinners

Sinners of Water & Fire

The Sexy & The Undead

The Sinners- The Boxed Set

Wanted: Hexed or Alive

His Favorite Everything

The Pixie & The Prince

Tasting Temptation

The Wizard & The Wanton

Bound

Incurably Wicked

Sexy Witches

Bedroom Games

Chained by Desire

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charity Parkerson is an award winning and multi-published author with Ellora's Cave Publishing, Midnight Books, and Punk & Sissy Publications. Born with no filter from her brain to her mouth, she decided to take this odd quirk and insert it in her characters.

*2013 Readers' Favorite Award winner
*ARRA Finalist for Favorite Paranormal Romance
*Five-time winner of The Mistress of the Darkpath
*Named one of the top 10 best books by an Indie author in 2011- Paranormal Reads Reviews
*Best Paranormal Romance of 2012- Paranormal Reads Reviews
*Quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald as an authority on Independent Publishing.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE

COPYRIGHT

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

AUTHOR BOOKSHELF

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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