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But whatever she was thinking, she wasn’t sharing And she didn’tfar out of arm’s reach, which meant she ary

Or smart as hell

He tried to look into her eyes, but she was looking off to the right, at the long fingers of fog rolling in on the earlylike hell that she would say no Talking wasn’t high on his list of favorite things to do

She shook her head and began to gather up her hair in that o it there with an elastic band she pulled froe He held it up, along with a tube of Neosporin, and her fingers brushed over his shoulder as she turned him Even this minor contact made him hard

"Didn’t Dell tell you not to touch?" she asked

"Yeah"

"Didn’t he also say if you did, he’d put a dog cone on you?"

"Yeah" He scowled "So?"

"So, do you want to wear a cone around your neck?"

"He’d have to catchwith the antibiotic ointment "Is Dell fast?"

"Yes But I’ood, Adaaze "You’re a lot hotter than ave hi you’ve ever had"

When he laughed, she smiled in response, and then looked around "It snowed"

"Yeah We were too busy to notice" Theaze dropped to hishi else

Unease

Because he knew that look It was the look of a wo she wanted Oh Christ The repercussions of last night were going to hit right here and now

His own doing

He pulled on his shirt, and then his sweatshirt and jacket Stalling techniques, of course, while he tried to decide how best to give her the buht too closely

She turned to hihtened Hell He couldn’t do it, couldn’t ignore this Not with her "I’ain," he said quietly "Are you okay? Do we have a proble--his phone is still off, by the way; I checked before I got dressed--and I just slept with one of the biggest mistakes of my life--a mistake who thinks I’m the mistake--but no, there’s no proble toward her "I knee needed to talk about this"

"Look, forget it Let’s just get a dah, you get going"

He opened his one down--at all--and she knew it, but he caught the flash of ue "Holly"

"Great," she said, tossing up her hands "Here it co-after speech," she said "I tried to avoid it, but soo ahead, Adam Get it out before it chokes you"

He drew in a slow, deep breath "Last night--"

"Wait" She jabbed a finger at hiht was a , Ada kickboxing I have rabbed the hand she aving around "Nothing with you has ever been a mistake"

"But?" she asked "Because there’s aze "But I don’t hat you want"

She narrowed her eyes "And what do you think I want?"

"A committed relationship"

She sucked in a breath "And what about you? What do you want?"

"It doesn’t matter what I want," he said "It’s not what you deserve, believe me But I don’t want to hurt you"

She nodded once, like she understood, then shook her head When he opened his ave her afor me?" she asked

Christ, she slayed him "I feel entirely too h You deserve it all, Holly"

She blinked, clearly startled by this "You e?" she finally asked "A white picket fence?" She let out a low laugh that held no aain"

"You e your s, too I’uy, Holly"

"I don’t like it when people telltoward the woods "You have no idea what I want"

That was undoubtedly true, and it also proved his point He knew nothing about being in a relationship day in and day out with a woman He could satisfy her physically, but no matter if he wanted to be the One for her or not, he’d let her down because he couldn’t keep her satisfied emotionally