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Owen selected a strawberry from a bowl of fresh fruit and crawled up her body until their noses were inches apart

"Taste," he said, and he rubbed the strawberry over her lower lip Herso close to him, not the anticipation of food

Caitlyn bit into the fruit and got lost in his eyes Such blue, blue eyes The dark ri She chewed slowly, her pulse thruaze from his

"Taste," he said, and leaned forward to kiss her

His mouth tasted ain as he deepened the kiss and reminded her why she’d not only had sex with hiainst his hard, warhtly, and her eyelids fluttered open Transfixed, she gazed into his eyes

"Do you have a preference?" he asked

"Huh?"

"In taste?"

"Oh" Her face grearain"

"Good" He fed her another bite of strawberry

"And since you asked," she said around the piece of fruit in her mouth, "I ain and flicked so just under her nose "Even hed and bit into the piece of crisp bacon "Is there anything that tastes better than bacon?" she said with her mouth full Her self-consciousness waned a bit with each passing moment He had an uncanny ability to drive her to distraction in one breath and soothe her in the next

He took a bite of bacon and winked at her "I’, but bacon hits the spot at thehe’d ordered from the menu--which appeared to be every item they offered--and he tasted each as well

"So you have a brother," she said, deciding hequestions on a full stos?"

He shook his head "Nope, just the one brother I have dozens of cousins though What about you? Do you have siblings?"

A fa hi questions was that he was likely to reciprocate "I had a sister She died in an accident"

"Oh," he said flatly "Sorry Were you close?"

"Not really," she admitted "I’m not sure if that makes it easier or rets can eat you alive"

"Regret Like your band," she said "Why the naret?"

"Kelly na in your life you wish you could undo ret You know, Kelly is actually a very deep person"

"You ad up that little slip involving his na to toss you out in the hallway Naked"

Little slip? But if he didn’t want to confront his issues with Kellen, she wasn’t going to push hi ousted from Owen’s place of admiration by his friend

"You wouldn’t dare," she said

"You sure about that?"

The ornery twinkle in his eye kicked her heart rate up a notch because she was sure he would dare Before she could respond, he leapt from the bed and lifted her off the ?" she asked as he started to carry her toward the door