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Slow Heat Jill Shalvis 20230K 2023-08-31

He didn’t answer Instead, his gaze swept over her, fro into him, she poked him in the chest "Well?"

He scrubbed a hand over his face "Don’t push , hard look that didn’t scare her off Nor did he budge

She glanced up at him, hands on hips

He shook his head and ainst him and covered her mouth with his

The kiss was hot and wet and deep and a, and by the time he lifted his head from hers, she could hardly remember her point, much less her name

Holy

Cow

A couple of histles had her jerking back from hi

Good tith to stop what had probably been the hottest kiss of her life "That’s not a probleht "That was fun" She turned away before he could get the truth in her eyes, but he grabbed her "Careful"

Right They were on the second tier of the scaffolding, fourteen feet up froround Given the look in his eyes, she hadn’t been the only one feeling the heat "I’ot a half smile out of him "Glad so to think about Later When her uys went to work building the scaffolding and she went back to standing there as if nothing had happened As if her world hadn’t just been completely rocked to the very foundation

The entire structure was in place by eleven

And then she was alone with her wall She had the iPad and her rough draft, and with that she went to work dividing the wall into equal sections to begin sketching

That night Bailey stayed in a one-roo in et back to the wall When she walked up to it and took in the sheer size of it, the doubts crept back in

Hard

As she stared at it and the reality of what she planned to do, her heart started pounding, and in spite of the thirty-two degrees and the windchill factor, she began to sweat

It’s just eraphic artist, she knew this She was good at this

But standing there with an i down on her, she panicked What made her think she could pull this off? TheWhat did she know about living life?

"Problem?"

At the sound of Hudson’s voice behind her, she ju at her feet "No"

"Then why are you talking to yourself?"

"I always talk to myself," she said

"You always tell yourself you’re an idiot?"