Page 6 (2/2)

"I don&039;t understand"

"Pray you never do"

"But" She bit down on her lower lip, re she had proain?"

"It would be for the best"

"For who?"

"For you"

"Don&039;t I have anything to say about it?"

"No"

"If you don&039;t want to see ht?"

"Because I could not stay away"

She s me!"

"It is my fondest desire"

"Mine, too" She put her hand over his mouth when he started to speak "No Don&039;t say another word I want to be with you You want to be with me I don&039;t see the problem"

Gently, he removed her hand from his mouth, then kissed her palm Warmth feathered up her arm to pool around her heart

"I hope you never do," Alexander said quietly Rising, he drew her to her feet "Your leg_it&039;s better?"

Kara nodded "The doctor said I can go back to work next week"

"Will you ain, happiness welling inside her "Will you kiss ?" he murmured, and then he slanted hiskiss that left her shaken to the soles of her feet

When he took his ainst him, certain she would have fallen but for his arret this, Kara"

"I won&039;t," she whispered "I won&039;t"

"Good night, then," he replied, and hoped, for her sake, that she grew tired of him before it was too late

In the last hours before dawn, Alexander sat in front of his co what he had written earlier