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"Oh, yeah Where’s your car?"

"At the trailhead," she said "Your truck?"

"On a fire road, a quarter of a mile from here"

Not too far…

He read her expression, and his oent dark, further quickening her pulse "I live close" His hand slid into her hair, tipping her head up to his "If we leave now, I’ll be off the clock by the tiaze tracked to herher to his truck

The drive took theht sight of the occasional cabin, but not , on a dirt road nohich opened up to a s, and then his house

"Two ed cabin in front of her It ay off the beaten path, which suited his were open bea ood accented, including the big, co furniture and the frames of the pictures on the walls of the Northwest Pacific landscape

A deep in her chest Not of jealousy, but envy Matt had found his place in this crazy world He kneho he was and what he wanted And he’d gotten it for hi on doing the sa to eat?"

The tension between them was so palpable she could taste it "No" She was here for one thing, and it was nourishether With any luck, they’d do this and get each other out of their syste on why she was in Lucky Harbor--following Grandma Rose’s journey She dropped her backpack to the floor

He tossed his keys to the coffee table

"No getting attached to et attached to you"

He gave her a smile "Can you resist?"

"Yes," she said fired out of her sweater and let it fall on top of her backpack

His eyes heated

She bent to undo her boots, but he said, "I have fantasies about those boots," so she left theaze drifted war for his hands and hisbehind," she said

He unholstered his gun and set it on the coffee table Next to that went his utility belt He kicked off his boots Then before he got to anything good, he stepped toward her

"More," she said

"Oh, there’s going to be a lot more" His voice was husky with the promise of it "But I want you in ed her into him Then he slid his other hand up her back and into her hair, holding her for his kiss It was slow and romantic And not what she wanted So she broke away and went for the button on his uniforet what she wanted froet him nad

Luckily this time what she wanted and what this ot his button popped, his zipper down, and slid her hand inside, wrapping it around his glorious, hard length

Heher "Bedrooe to the hall

She nudged back and pushed hiainst the wall, just to the side of his fireplace He’d asked if she wanted so to eat, and she did "Dessert first," she said "Always"

Hishiainst her belly Her body responded to that, and she kissed hi and deep as she unbuttoned his shirt God, his torso Hard Ripped She wanted to lick hiroan reverberated in his chest, and in response, the blood pounded through her body His hands were on her, everywhere One glided down her back to her botto back and forth over her nipple He murmured her name as his body shifted, and she kneas about to take the control fro and took it first, slipping her hands back inside his open pants, freeing hiue up his hot, silky erection

With an inarticulate growl, his head thunked back against the wall and again his hands slid into her hair She could feel the fine tres, and that turned her on He was the epito and dominant male, and she had hiave hiasped "Jesus, Aot to slon"

She didn’t, and he lasted only a few ers tightening reflexively in her hair "Keep that up, and I’ hi for her, and when they were done with this, she was going to take hi, taking hi She was still enjoying the little aftershocks running through his big, powerful body when he dropped to his knees and pulled her into his lap He unhooked her bra and bent her back over his arasp of pleasure, she gripped his head Not to pull hiht there A minute later, she realized he’d somehow peeled her out of her shorts and panties as well In only her boots, he adjusted her so that she was straddling hiht there on the floor His hand traveled down her torso, between her open thighs, his long fingers playing slip and slide

Pleasure swa her cry out She never cried out Shocked at the hurry-up noises she was , she bit his shoulder to shut herself up

Matt hissed in a breath but kept stroking her with those talented fingers, in and out, in a rhythravity He co her hard and deep, reducing her to a gasping, panting, pleadingShe ca her core, his entle "Round one," he said silkily, "is a tie" Then he laid her out on the rug, holding her still when she wriggled, trying to get on top

She was always on top

But he shook his head, a s his head, he kissed his way down her body, stopping to pay special ho her crystal belly button piercing with his teeth beforelower

"Matt Matt, wait--"

He didn’t listen to her any o With his broad shoulders holding her legs wedged open, he took all her poith one perfectly placed stroke of his tongue Reduced to a whi on either side of her hps as he sucked and nibbled and drove her straight out of her ever-loving ly short drive, and this tiled Noriven her a twofer, so effortlessly she hadn’t even knohat hit her She didn’t knohether to thank him or be embarrassed "Well" She rose up on her elbows and eyed the room for her clothes, which were scattered Except for her boots Those she was still wearing "I’ to need a ride"

He rose up, too, still between her legs His s positively wicked And unbelievably, she felt her body react

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