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He lifted ertips

"And I don’t care what anyone else thinks

We’ve got our own rhythrabbed my bottle of iced tea off the coffee table and took a drink

"I know it drains you

Do you ever think it’s just too hard or too painful?" "You do realize how suggestive that sounds, right?" "Oh hed

"You’re terrible"

His eyes sparkled with a ue with you, angel, than laugh with anyone else"

Jesus

It took me a minute to be able to s the last bite in my mouth

"You know

I love you madly"

He smiled

"Yes, I know"

After we’d cleaned up the e into the sink and said, "I need to make my Saturday phone call to my dad"

Gideon shook his head

"Not possible

You’ll have to wait ’til Monday"

"Huh? Why?" He caged e on either side of me

"No phones"

"Are you serious? What about your cell phone?" I’d leftI had no place to carry it and having no intention of using it anyway

"It’s heading back to New York with the limo

No Internet, either

I had the ot here"

I was speechless

With all the responsibilities and co himself off for the weekend was

unbelievable

"Wow

When’s the last time you fell off the face of the earth like this?" "Hmm

that would be never"

"There have to be at least a half dozen people freaking out because they can’t run so

"They’ll deal with it"

Pleasure surged through me

"I have you all to myself?" "Completely"

His mouth curved in a wicked sel?" I smiled back, ecstatically happy

"I’"

We went for a walk on the beach

I rolled up a pair of Gideon’s pajama bottoms and put onback to New York along with Gideon’s cell phone

"I have died and gone to heaven," he pronounced, checking outthe shore, "where the embodiment of every wet-dream, spank-bank fantasy of my adolescence is real and totally o froly romantic to crude in the space of an hour?" "It’s another one of ain to the prominent points of my nipples, which were hard froave an exaggerated happy sigh

"Heaven with et any better than this"

I had to agree

The beach was beautiful in a moody, untamed way that reminded me a lot of theof the gulls filled me with a unique sense of contentment

The water was cold on my bare feet, and the hippedtirateful to Gideon for giving us this tiether ere alone

"You like it here," he noted

"I’ve always loved being close to the water

My mother’s second husband had a lake house

I re I’d buy so on the water for myself one day"

He released my hand and draped his arm around my shoulders instead

"So let’s do it

How about this place? You like it?" I glanced up at hih his hair

"Is it for sale?" He looked down the stretch of beach in front of us

"Everything’s for sale at the right price"

"Do you like it?" "The interior’s a little cold with all that white, although I like the e all the rest

Make itwhat that would be

I loved his apartance

I think he felt comfortable atthe two

"Big step, buying a property together"

"Inevitable step," he corrected

"You told Dr

Petersen failure isn’t an option"

"Yep, I did"

We walked a little farther in silence

I tried to figure out how I felt about Gideon wanting to have a ible tie between us

I also wondered why he’d choose joint property ownership as the way to achieve it