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Blushing, even as relief coursed through her that he hadn’t been scared off last night, she tucked the scandalous card into her pocket just as the coo," she said, acknowledging the lieutenant with a split-second of eye contact "Chief’s with the healer - he twisted his ankle this et in touch later today"
"No probleeous flowers on your desk"
"Yes Froossip would reach the Sierra Nevada den by the end of the day anyway
She’d underestiured" An open grin "Sowhy do you look mortified?" Her tone cooled "You don’t share his interest?"
"Of course I do" Until her entire body ached for his touch "God, what red-blooded wohed "Sorry about that," she said a little sheepishly "I know it’s none of my business, but he’s my friend
I’d hate for him to be hurt" A pause before she added, "I can see he’s ood choice - you’re smart, sexyand without a doubt want to juroaned at the sly tease
"Everyone is going to be watching us now"
She was right And that was before Cooper stole her away for lunch since he had to be on night shift on a perimeter section and wouldn’t see her for dinner
"Did you like the flowers?" he asked, bracing his arm above her head on the tree trunk on which she leaned
He looked so pleased with hie of wild affection
"Yes" And because there was no pain in his eyes today, she didn’t bring up the worry that continued to si him
Instead, she petted hiht"
"Toh promise melted her bones
Of course, her family wasn’t so excited about the news of her relationship with Cooper The only way Grace kept the down to meddle in the situation was to threaten to never return hoot off the coression
Declaration of Courtship Chapter 9
TORMENTED BY EROTIC dreaed in the most delicious of sins with Cooper, Grace came into her office the next day to find it filled with balloons and her workrins on their faces
The part of her that had been forced into rebellion in an effort to fight her faht she should be annoyed at the way Cooper was accelerating things, but she looked beyond that, to the core of who she was and knew she was charmed This ood
The truth was, she didn’t need the reins of their courtship, wouldn’t be comfortable with them And while it occasionally ood-natured and gentle teasing Of course, Cooper had to keep ratcheting it up a notch - boxes of fine chocolates delivered to her horaifts faron her wrists hiht blue silk sheets she found on her bed one day when she went hootten Her breath caught, her fingers unable to resist touching the exquisite fabric, her es of what Cooper would look like sprawled on those sheets, all darkly bronzed skin and heavy ers curled into her pal her lips
Because in one area, Cooper wasn’t pushing, the skin privileges they shared li, lazy kisses that had addicted both sides of her nature She kneas on purpose, that he was seducing her one s care not to set off her wolf’s survival instincts as he had that night in her bedroo eut
Until when Cooper tracked her down that afternoon, she said, "You’re driving me insane"
He went motionless where he’d taken a seat in the access corridor beside her crouching form "Want me to stop?"
No!
"I" And because he mattered, because she never wanted him to think he couldn’t be who he ith her, she found the courage to say, "I like it when you’re bad"
He reached out to run his hand over her thigh and the elowed a deep, hot red "You have no idea howtoon those sheets, your skin creamy, your curves bitable I’ll have to stroke myself to sleep, and damn, it’ll be a pale substitute"
His sexuality was so raw, so honest, farto believe she ht just be able to handle it It aroused her to lush readiness when he talked that way - and he knew it "I did," shedown the tool she’d been using, she went to her knees, placed one hand on his shoulder and leaned in to whisper in his ear "Stroke myself" She’d been a mess of need by the tiht<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>