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He folowed her down the hal She grabbed a plastic box out of the break room and led him to an office

The smal room was mostly empty, with just a few boxes of files stacked to one side and a broken office chair in the corner "This wil be my office when the lease on the other one runs out," she told hihts flickered on with a low buzz, and Lana shut and locked the door behind her They were al alone

Caleb felt that consuers slid up over one bare arave a delicate shiver but didn’t try to stop hi between them, in this, she was honest Her reaction to his touch ithout guile or secrecy

"Are you realy okay?" she asked

"I aet hurt?"

"No"

"Good That’s good"

"Do you knoho he is?" asked Caleb

"No," she said "I saw his face for a second I didn’t recognize hi the truth "He’s unconscious Do you want to get a better look? A second isn’t very long to identify someone, especialy when they’re armed"

Her body tensed, and she nearly dropped the bottle of disinfectant she was holding "No I don’t want to see hiood, and I don’t want to start seeing his when I close et photos for her to look at if she changed herat the man himself "He won’t be able to hurt you now"

Lana nodded but said nothing She swabbed disinfectant over his cut knuckles Caleb ignored the sting and watched her tend hiers shook, but she didn’t falter

"I think you can stop I’ain "Anyplace else hurt?"

His blood was stil hot with adrenaline, his body ready for a fight Or sex That would work, too In fact, it sounded like a great idea "Depends Are you going to kiss it and ? I want you Right here Right now"

Her eyes darkened, and she swayed toward him "You could have been kiled"

"I wasn’t We’re both safe"

Caleb stepped closer, puling her body against his, heedless of the dirt and sweat of co, either Her skin ar the honeysuckle and woman scent of her rise up to his nose Caleb breathed in, holding her essence inside hi it out

"I shouldn’t be turned on right now"

"Survival instinct Perfectly normal" He couldn’t even form a complete sentence anyainst the door and lowered his mouth to hers Lana’s lips parted without hesitation, and his tongue swept inside herho

He told her with his lips and tongue how much he wanted this Wanted her His kiss was hard and de her no room to back away

Lana melted inside his hold and returned his kiss with a sense of desperation, though whether she was desperate for et the kiler on the roof, he couldn’t tel

Lana’s hands slid up under his shirt over his abdoh the hair on his chest, pressing into the muscle beneath "I love the way you feel," she told hiainst hishis hopes soar He wanted her to love hinite

Caleb kissed his way over her jaw and down her neck, swirling his tongue as he went He’d used every one of his powers of observation to gauge her reactions to his touch so that he could learn her most sensitive spots He wanted to please her like no other man ever had, and he put hisher body It hadn’t taken long, because Lana was such a responsive wohs and ht now, Caleb wanted to show her just what he’d learned

His lips teased the joint of her neck and shoulder--the exact spot he knew drove her crazy He let her anticipation build, let her knoith the light scraping of his teeth what he was going to do, let her want it Then, when she was panting and clutching at hi in the hiss of pleasure she gave hiain The L-word that he wanted to hear with a longing so deep it left hi of his teeth He puled back enough to look into her eyes They were the rich blue of deep ocean water, heavy-lidded with desire

Lana tugged at his shirt, unable to get it off without his help He swept it off over his head and tossed it onto the broken chair "Your turn," he told her as he reached for the hem of her shirt

hem of her shirt

She let him strip it off of her and reached behind her to unhook her bra Caleb’s jeans tightened as he watched the guileless striptease Finaly, her perfectly shaped breasts were bare to hiht pink nipple, unable to resist