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God help me, I loved hi off his straight white teeth, then darted his tongue between the pearly rows to moisten winter-chapped lips

"You ready for this?" He ht better of the tie because he tossed it behind me onto the headrest of the couch, where it draped over Rio’s flicking tail The kitten was elated to be offered a new toy and dug her tiny claws into the silk

My bouncing knees captured his attention, and his smile faltered as he sat on the arm of the loveseat It was a miniscule comfort to have him rub the meridian between my shoulders It would have helped if he said I could bail on dinner, but no such luck

Rio wrapped herself up in the tie and tu to the floor with a thud The one cat in the world who failed to land on her feet and she was all ets here?" I had a wicked idea inMomma Alvarez

Des hie tiherotic about awatch I think it affected the sarabbed his hand and pulled hiht was coainst hiside his

"Hi," he said His face was ht with amusement His breath smelled of minty toothpaste and arue to be hint-of-mint fresh, with his distinctive lihed

"You taste like cookies"

He kissed ently, with the easy sweetness of a familiar lover With his body on mine he was free to cup my cheeks between his palms and lavish tender, delicate kisses over my forehead, jaw and throat with the softness of butterfly wings

My original plan to ravish him with a Christmas Eve quickie dissolved with each pass of his hness of his lips didn’t take ence of the moment

When his road trip of kisses came home to my mouth, I held his face as he’d held mine and kissed the tip of his nose He smiled, and with him this close I could see the lilac of his eyes

"Love you" I kissed each of his dark eyebrows

"Good Then you have to come meet my mom"

Eyes that had been heavy-lidded with a love-drunk complacency snapped open "Tricksy olf"

"Gonna blame it on my lupine ainstin uns He sdirty"

I quirked a scored, I’d like a chance to spike your volley…or, you know, a cooler sports edin front of the couch so rabbed the he him an eyeful of my brand-new leather corset

Unfortunately that was also the moment Dominick chose to let hi there’s a tiize?" I grumbled from the backseat of Dominick’s Prius He’d separated Des Island, and s with all his snickering in the front

"When apologies can cleansehi hi him, half naked, no less"

"I was fully clothed," I snarled

In the rearview rin, and ever the ue out at him

"No I don’t knohere that’s been"

Desained his co into the front seat to throttle his brother