Wanted by Her Lost Love

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SixKelly didn’t sleep that night. Not that it should havecome as any surprise to her. She lay awake in herbed, reliving the past. The first time she met Ryan.How he’d swept her off her feet and into apassionate and all-consuming relation ship.From the day he first asked her out, they hadn’tspent a single day apart for several weeks. By theend of the first month, she’d moved into hisapartment, and <strong>by</strong> the end of the second month oftheir whirlwind courtship, his ring was on her finger.She had never been quite sure why he’d chosenher. It wasn’t as if she thought she was inferior, butRyan Beardsley was an extremely wealthy man. Hecould have his pick of women. Why Kelly?She didn’t have family connections. She didn’thave money or prestige. She was a simple collegestudent eking out a living on a waitress’s salary.Until Ryan.Everything had changed for her, and maybe she’dbeen too caught up in the fairy tale that was her
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It was her. He knew it was her.The
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Dear Reader,I love when a story gra
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Books by Maya BanksHarlequin Desire
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To the kidlets for being so helpful
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Chapter OneChapter TwoChapter Three
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One“Almost enough to make you bel
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Devon winced in sympathy. “Still
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on to relax around his friends.The
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to their bantering as Ryan hurried
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to work for quite some time. He fig
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over the rim. With an apologetic sm
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If she was pregnant, seven months
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and turned anxiously back to Nina.
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and she snatched it away.“Go away
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anger emanating from him. “You’
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envelope containing the check. A re
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One thing was for certain. He wasn
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served him coffee to their rush eng
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to go away. She was tired, worn thi
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he whirled around.“Where the hell
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he demanded. “You look like hell,
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What the hell did you expect? And n
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her on a daily basis and a shabby a
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He sighed. It wasn’t that he’d
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done to him. “We have a hell of a
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maneuvered through traffic. She was
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Page 101 and 102: FiveKelly sat cross-legged on her b
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of his tongue.Strong hands gripped
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was a precious piece of glass he wa
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didn’t want the sensation to end
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pulled back and pushed in again. He
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TenRyan lay there, Kelly in his arm
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Whatever the case, something had go
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can’t keep my hands or mouth off
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always seemed to be touching him or
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them both and then rolled back over
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Her eyes widened. “But I never wa
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Who could be happy when, at every t
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wonder what your mother promised he
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“I want this to work,” she said
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“I ate at the diner,” she said.
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She had to put it away because ther
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TwelveThere weren’t enough words
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Ryan pulled her into his side and k
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voice but did as he said and settle
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and we’re both tired.”He tossed
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When Ryan returned to the living ro
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ThirteenRyan took Kelly to the doct
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the baby very soon,” Ryan said in
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“I got a call from Rafael today,
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his darling mother. All the evening
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ought a new one for a new beginning
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For once she felt warm on the insid
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elationship was too new to weather
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anything else. She knew that if he
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forth.Already her feet protested he
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disgruntled sigh. “Just trying to
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“It’s awfully…clingy,” she
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Even Bryony looked skeptical as she
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Why was she putting up with this?Sh
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You’ve sent pitying glances Ryan
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plan never to see your family? Hasn
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He waved at a passing cab, frustrat
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cheeks.“Well, I don’t forgive y
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so cleverly that Ryan had been comp
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She yanked her hands down, her face
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anything to make her stay long enou
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Sixteen“Kelly!”Ryan dropped to
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experienced true hatred.He buried h
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either mother or child deteriorates
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her cheek resting on the mound of p
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she threatened to tell me he tried
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“I can’t let him get away with
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SeventeenJarrod’s expression was
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Ryan was numb from head to toe. His
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enough to harm an innocent woman.Ev
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for her. We’ll never be. I just h
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It took her several moments of star
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strength to argue. Something inside
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“I know we have a lot to work out
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lift a finger. I can have a medical
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She turned her head in surprise. Sh
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een a carefully avoided issue, as w
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Her eyes widened in surprise.“Com
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through her veins.Ryan insisted on
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worth your tears. I don’t regret
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She reached for him, framing his fa
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were all right. I made all sorts of
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ISBN: 978-1-4592-1555-9WANTED BY HE
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