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Knowing she was going to have to avoid the Falladay twins until the job was over, and that the Robertses would surely interfere in any relationship she developed, was quickly changing her plans If Cam and Chase were close friends with the Sinclairs, then the potential for disaster had just grown exponentially
She would kill Courtney for not warning her they would be so close
As they stone path that weaved and branched off into hidden grottos, Chase drew her alongside hiainst the small of her back as they walked deeper into the shadows
The other guests hadn’t wandered this far yet There was a faint tinkle of a fountain nearby Night birds sang their songs and crickets chirped happily If she closed her eyes she could alht seven years earlier, and she could al ardens in an attempt to seduce me, Chase?" she draith a smile, the seriousness of her question hidden beneath the subtle laughter in her tone
She had forgotten how much fun it could be to flirt with and tease Chase, what it felt like to be with a man that a part of her instinctively trusted, rather than distrusted
She had learned over the years not to trust anyone, especially good-looking ht, was an incredible shae should have had more adventures than she’d had so far
His chuckle stroked her senses
"I want to catch up with an old friend, nothing more," he promised her "Damn, Jaci, when did you become so suspicious?"
"When it colanced up at hih to have forgotten, surely?"
She hadn’t forgotten a moment of it, and she knew Chase--he would never let her hide fro to Better to get it out in the open now And she couldn’t resist it anyway Seeing hi inside her with all the dark promise of the dreaave her athat sat beneath a wide arbor "Here we go We can just sit here and visit"
Jaci sat down, carefully shs as Chase sat down beside her
The gohich had felt so alluring when she put it on, now see It made her feel too feminine The thin straps held the draped bodice over her breasts Maybe she should have worn a bra The side slit ran to her thigh It showed an indecent aaze and felt the grin that tugged at her lips, as he watched her knowingly
"You and Cah "Sometimes I’ve missed that"
She had ht of the party She had snapped up an offer to attend a design school in California and headed out as fast as she could And every day she planned the trip, she’d had to fight herself to keep fro an offer she knew she couldn’t handle Just to be in his ar
"We’vewith the strands of hair that escaped the decorative clip that held it in the back
We’ve ht that one quickly
She ducked her head, hoping to hide her response to that statement as she inhaled with a slow, deep breath
"You ran out on us, Jaci"
Jaci sed tightly, her head jerking up as his tone hardened
"There was nothing to run out on" She kept her voice firave his expression a darker, ht, piercing into hers
His fingers paused at the nape of her neck where they had been playing with the hair that drifted down from the clip His expression becaht There was nothing to run out on" His lips quirked huh Life wasn’t the sahter"
It hadn’t been the same without them, either She had been their friend, when other woht destroyed that friendship She had never looked at Chase the saht of Ca with fear and with need She kept checking the shadows for hier to see hiet back inside" She rose to her feet, her fingers tightening on the s fro hour for et away fro since she had seen Chase or Ca since she had allowed herself to think about the Falladay twins, either separately or apart
"Lethere?" He nodded to the mansion
"I’m at a hotel But I’ll be fine"
"We could talk--just talk, Jaci, I promise" He smiled The charm and sensuality that was so ed her to join in, to let herself be seduced
"I don’t know"
"Just the two of us"
He said it so easily, with just a hint of amusement, a promise of sensuality There was a shade of ement of her hesitancy and the reasons why