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I cleaned the seat, grabbed my purse, and stuffed the hanky into it before I frantically started to yank my dress down until it covered my legs.

Bless this amazing man who knew exactly why I’d needed something dry.

“Relax,” Asher said as he took my hand.

I took a deep breath, realizing that I was flustered because I’d just had hot sex in a limo.

“That was a first for me,” I told him.

He grinned at me as the car door opened. “Me, too,” he shared before he slid out of the vehicle and took my hand to help me out.

My heart fluttered as I stood and Asher slipped a protective arm around me.

It was good to know that I was finally Asher’s first time forsomething.

Asher

We ended up staying in Houston for two weeks.

Number one, Martha Ellis’s small home in Hollister needed extensive repairs.

I’d done almost everything I could do myself.

The rest was going to have to be done by professional contractors.

And number two, Sierra seemed to be genuinely enjoying some time with her mother.

We were staying in Houston and driving to Hollister every day. Martha’s place was a small two-bedroom, and I had the floor torn up to fix some of the flooring in Sierra’s old room.

Sierra didn’t seem to mind visiting a city that had bad memories for her, so we’d enjoyed our time in Houston.

I leaned against a brick building in downtown Hollister, waiting for my woman to finish a conversation with an old friend.

We’d come to the downtown area to run some errands.

The town was an interesting place.

It was obviously growing because of its close proximity to Houston, but there were still many aspects of the small town it used to be.

People were friendly, and a lot of them seemed to know each other.

I watched as Sierra spoke animatedly with a female across the street.

She’d sped across the road as soon as she’d spotted the woman she’d apparently been friends with when she’d grown up in Hollister.

One moment, I was leaning against that building while I patiently waited for Sierra.

The next, I was bodily yanked into the alley between the two buildings and slammed up against the brick wall.

“Oof!” I uttered as the air was forced out of my lungs.

“What in the fuck are you doing with Sierra!” a deep voice demanded to know.

It took me a moment to orient myself.

What in the hell?

The big man in front of me still had a hard grip on my shirt, and the furious look on his face told me that I was probably going to end up fighting my way out of this situation.