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Caleb hadn’t recognized the h Grant ht appear casual and careless, but he never fooled around with the is

"They have floor ht?"

Lana nodded, but her brows drew together in a curious line "A fee use when I can get one of the local gymnastic coaches to donate some lessons"

"And you have a key"

"Of course Caleb, what are you getting at?"

"I was just thinking about soht I should try with you"

Caleb saw her eyes darken and a pretty blush spread up her throat "I’ests at the youth center"

It took Caleb a ht he meant sex Possibly kinky sex Which, of course, o there, too What a lovely place that was

She hadn’t said no to the idea, just no to doing it at the youth center, and if that wasn’t enough to make a man’s blood boil, Caleb didn’t knoas "It’s not what you think I just wanted to show you a few self-defense moves"

"What for?"

"Just in case"

"In case of what?"

"In case those secrets you’re keeping come back to haunt you I don’t want you to be con of sexual interest he thought he’d seen vanished "I’ve taken self-defense classes," she said, her voice even

"Not fro special?"

"Because in ood offense"

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

An hour later, Lana eating and breathing hard, and only partly fro He’d stripped out of his shirt, leaving that glorious expanse of ot to touch hi touches, but hard holds that taught her just what the ot him in her arms for real It was more than any red-blooded woh

"That was good," he said as he pushed hiround to show her how it felt to folow through the motion Of course, once she’d knocked him flat on his back, she wanted to cli while, but that wasn’t in the cards

"This tih with that stomp kick I showed you"

"I don’t want to hurt you," she said, her voice light with breathlessness

His black eyes were glittering in the bright lights of the gylowed as if it had been oiled "Aim just to the side of my head, but don’t hold back on the force of the kick If you get too close, I’l just dodge"

"What if you’re not fast enough?" she asked, taunting hiht and was astonished that a h if you’re not trying to hurt ertips "Let’s go"

Lana took a deep breath as she waited for Caleb to coh a series ofhis ownhi, and a second later she found herself on top of him with her nose in his crisp chest hair

Lana’s laboring lungs puled in the scent of his skin, felt the firm bed of man beneath her, and she felt the liquid flow of desire pooling low in her bely She tried to hold in a low groan of need, but her breathing was too ragged to control it

"You okay?" he asked, sounding a little winded hiht

Lana nodded and tried to push herself up Her arms shook with effort as her mind tried to take control of her ard body, which wanted to stay right here and taste the salt of his skin

Her weight shifted as she worked to ainst her stoth of his arousal Lana went stil, trying to ure out if it was al in her head or if he realy was hard and hot against her bely

"One of us should move," he told her in a thick voice "And if it’sto slide you underthat would make even Grant blush"

The words went into her brain and roled around in an indecipherable pile Blood raced along her skin,deep inside her ht here--to force him to do whatever it was he had inwithout pleasure in her life, and she knew on an instinctive level that Caleb had what it would take to

She ht decision, because she felt Caleb shudder beneath her His powerful muscles clenched and shifted, and when they stopped, she was lying on the cold vinyl one

She looked up and saw him with his back to her a few feet away "I’m sorry, Lana I shouldn’t have said that, shouldn’t have put that pressure on you"