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Dalton ainst the door by two hundred pounds of cowboy "Deal is, you touch ree to that deal"

"It’s unspoken" Dalton angled his head and placed a kiss on the side of her neck

She should’ve demanded he stop after that first soft kiss Or the second, placed on her neck below the first She really shouldn’t have let hi hot kisses down one side of her throat and up the other side She probably should’vehis sood

"Rory," he murmured in her ear "Have me for lunch"

That snapped her out of it "What?"

"Have lunch with me"

Jesus This man s she wanted to hear "Dalton I can’t"

"Too short of notice, huh?"

"It’s not that"

Dalton eased back but his hands remained braced beside her head on the door "Then what?"

"This is going way too fast for iving you my phone nuht before last e had supper at your place you used that bully-kiss tactic on me then too"

"I didn’t use the bully-kiss tactic yesterday," he pointed out

"Only because you went to visit your mom and we didn’t see each other," she retorted

"I haven’t used the bully-kiss tactic today" He grinned at her "Not yet anyway"

Her eyes searched his "I’m serious You just blow into town after three years and I’m supposed to take it on faith that you want to be with me? Especially after we hadn’t been on the best terms for several years before that? It’s only been three days"

A fierce look entered his eyes "If I’d known you were back after breaking your engageo"

Rory stilled Dalton hadn’t brought up her broken engageht so she wasn’t sure he’d known about it "How’d you find out?"

"That you kicked that douche-fucker--asn’t good enough to date you, let alone marry you--to the curb? Sierra told me four hours after I left Montana And I let her have it for keeping such a big fucking secret from me"

Rory ducked under his arm and put distance between theht with Sierra"

"I keep in touch with her because she’s the only McKay who never knewup years, so she doesn’t hold a fixed opinion about me"

"So you could keep in touch with her, but not me?" Crap Why had she said that? "Did Sierra blab all about ain "Only if I asked So I knew about your engageuy naoes by Dil Besides, it’s not the person’s narabbed her upper arms and pulled her closer "Were you in love with hi in Dalton’s eyes, she was surprised how easily she manipulated the truth "We had a lot in common"

"Did You Love Him"

"Why does it ht…" Then Dalton’s hands slid up, fra her face as his mouth took possession of hers

The kiss started out red-hot and spiraled higher froainst hers, every tiny suck, every nibble, every tiroan and dove into the kiss again He read her reactions and adjusted accordingly with the perfect co her crave

He slowed the kiss and backed off "Didn’t mean to do that here, but I just wanted you to know"

She rested her backside against the desk because her legs were jelly "You wanted me to know that you intend to romance the hell out of me?"

"No"

"Knohat then?"

Before he could respond, the door swung open and Hannah walked right in

Rory was relieved Hannah hadn’t showed up two ht her and Dalton in a hardcore lip lock

"Oh, hello," Hannah said to Dalton’s chest, "I didn’t realize you had a visitor, Rory"

Like hell you didn’t

Dalton said, "I’ll leave and let you get back to work"

The hungry way Hannah was eyeing Dalton annoyed the piss out of her Rory set her hand on Dalton’s arht?"

He didn’t miss a beat "Of course Is the Mexican joint still in business?"

"Yes I’ll ave Hannah the cowboy nod before he walked out

And lecherous Hannah cranked her head around--much like that chick in The Exorcist--to watch his backside as he a you needed, Hannah?"