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"You’re going to burn" His shadow eased over her, dulling the heat that had been sinking slowly into her back

"I never burn" She fought to keep the arousal that whipped through her out of her voice as she lay beneath his gaze "What are you doing here? Zach’s at Dad’s house Next house down the street, if you’re not sure where that’s at"

"I knohere it’s located" Deep, dark, his voice washed over her senses with a velvety rasp that shouldn’t have had the power to send her juices spilling froina

Why Khalid? she asked herself What was it about him that made her so damned hot she rivaled the sun, when other ht of actually having sex with one of them was impossible to consider

"Then why are you here?" She lifted herself up on her elbows and raised her head as he squatted in front of her, his dark head tilted, his thickly lashed eyes narrowing on her

"You look like a virgin sacrifice Laid out, naked, and tee as it chooses"

Wow He sure as hell had a gift for words She had known that about him; she just hadn’t expected to have hie to her in quite that ed me yet" She looked up at hi in his gaze? There was h the lust was there in spades A hunger echoed through her body, tightened her nipples, and caused her abdomen to clench in anticipation of pleasure

And how the hell was she supposed to knoould be pleasure? She had to be the only twenty-seven-year-old virgin left in the country A woirl and yet had never known the touch of a lover, because she had to be the most stubborn woman in the world, too She wanted Khalid She had wanted hi to do

"So it as you speak," Khalid stated, his gaze flickering down to the rounded curves of her breasts

Marty swore she could feel the swollenwith the need for his touch

This hat he did to her What he had always done to her "Telanced up at the clear blue sky before turning her gaze back to him "So far, it hasn’t responded"

His lips lifted in a half-s over she sat up, drew the light robe from her side, and pulled it over her as she rose to her feet

Turning to face hiain, she reue and a daht be able to handle That didn’t keep her fro to try

"So why are you here if you know Dad and Zach are at the other house?" she questioned, as she gathered up the towel and her gun and the tanning oil beside her towel "Shouldn’t you be there?"

His gaze flickered to the holstered gun before co back to her

"I didn’t say I knew they were there I said I knehere it was Your father is scheduled toto his hoed

"I can see this becoe of his voice was just enough to slice through any doubt she may have had that for the moment his attention was focused solely on her

"It looks like you’re stuck with , and excite inside her until it felt alreed

"No objections then?" Stepping through the French doors, she turned and headed to the kitchen "That’s quite an about-face The last I noticed, you enjoyedcertain there was an absurd distance between us"

He rarely spoke to her, especially during the past two years while she had been following him on her rabid boss’s orders

"It could be well e and pulled it open "And perhaps that distance is best for both of us"

And he had stated that several times As they danced at the parties they both attended Or during her visits to Courtney Sinclair’s home on the Sinclair estate that housed the men’s club he was a member of Each tiainst it Warned her until she did no s now

"Fine It’s not wise You can leave now" Pulling a pitcher of sweet iced tea froerator, she shot hie, she wondered, to be the wo hie to face possible rejection? More than once?

Pulling two glasses fro the pitcher on the counter and giving the glass to hilass to his lips and sipped

There was pure sexual hunger in his gaze Lust filled it, shaped his sexy lips, and tightened the skin over his cheekbones He watched her like a haatches its prey: narrow-eyed, intent, hungry

"How lass on the counter as she confronted hi moment