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Eyes locked on her, he gave a slow shake of his head

He wasn’t , she noticed Maybe not for a handful of hness that suggested the wild teenager had long ago become a man She sa that his T-shirt also had a Colorado Wildland Firefighter patch on the sleeve The last tiet into the fire acadeotten his dream

"Move or I’ll run over your foot," she said, and to prove she ine

"You’ll run over my foot?" he repeated, eyebrow raised, one side of his rin that was filled icked trouble No wonder half the population of Cedar Ridge had always been in love with him The other half were either o, I see," he said, voice low and a way She told herself she didn’t care what he thought, but that was a big lie She drew a deep breath and went back to her "fake it ’til youunaffected by hiency brake

"And still impatient as hell" Aidan stood up real slow, on his own da

Once upon a time that had hurt her, deeply, and all because of that darown up Gotten smart Surely she could resist him now as easily as she could resist the cookies he’d hand-delivered to her

Except she wanted those cookies more than she wanted her next breath And the worst of it? She had absolutely no illusions about her ability to resist hiue

Unfortunately that was a feat she’d never ed Not the ti an older girl in the alley behind the apart where they’d both lived--and not the peck sort of kiss either Nope, they’d been really going at it, the girlof chips she’d ever tasted

Nor the time a couple of years later when he and his older brother, Gray--both shirtless and in low-slung jeans--had been working on aor drinking pilfered beers and laughing, their lanky bodies hot and sweaty

And certainly not the suled a dance with him at the annual festival on the lake, a slow dance--and even after the music stopped, they’d swayed to the beat, unable to break eye contact She’d been shocked at the heat they’d generated and had wondered if he’d felt the same

And then he’d kissed her, and it sure seemed like he’d felt plenty, because the kiss … Oh, the kiss Magical, sensual, erotic … She’d pressed into hiive

But he’d held back, which at the tiht he hadn’t wanted to pressure her, that they could take things slow

Until the next day Lily’s sister, Ashley, had co that she had the biggest crush on her assistant ski coach

Who happened to be one sexy Aidan Kincaid

Ashley had been sure he liked her back