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"You don’t?"

He gave a slow negative shake of his head

She was still taking that in when he reached out and ran a finger along her temple and then her jaw "It’s no secret that I want you, and I want you bad," he said with a small wry smile "But the truth is that probably isn’t smart, for either of us I work twenty-four-seven and am emotionally unavailable, and you…"

She’d sucked in a breath at the ee doorstop "I what?"

"You live two hours away"

She blinked "That’s it?" she asked "That’s the worst thing you can think of about me?"

He smiled "Nope, but here’s the problem The fact that you’re a smartass and even more stubborn than I am? It totally works in your favor"

"Oh," she breathed, having no idea why that was so… well, arousing He was attracted to her biggest flaws How do you not fall for a guy who likes your flaws? "And I’m supposed to resist?"

"It’s your call," he said

"Great" She blew out a breath "You should know that I’"

He flashed another sht have said to that because his radio went off She was torn between thinking, Da to be no ti the between thes were No complications Just a few admittedly hot stolen moments No real intimacy

But he didn’t rush off He stood there and looked at her very seriously "What’s it going to be, Bailey? We going for this?"

Oh boy So he wasn’t the sort to put off a decision She should have known that about him

I’m not emotionally available…

Those words haunted her She wanted him, but she wanted more than just his body--didn’t she? Or at least she wanted the chance at ave a slow shake of her head She wasn’t exactly looking for The One right this et intimate with someone, she wanted him to at least have potential to be that person She would need to protect herself against Hud since he’d taken himself out of the race "You aren’t The One," she whispered

Hud held hi out a low breath and nodding "Smart choice" That said, he hauled her up to her toes and kissed her with a whole lot of tongue and frustration, and by the tiht fists

Good Lord Forcing herself to let go of him, she smoothed the wrinkles she’d left "What was that?" she whispered

His htly "That was one part daood-bye"

And then he turned, leaving her standing there dazed as he lithely cliht Hud was actually alone in the old lodge, so that almost never happened because Kenna rarely went anywhere off the preht, so of Fifty Shades--which they’d already all seen a dozen ti to that particular flick without soet laid with, but Penny had told hi hu to trust her on that one

Aidan and Gray were both still at work Hud would’ve been, too, except he’d been on the graveyard shift the past two nights in town and could hardly keep his eyes open

He’d ordered a pizza, which would arrive any second He intended to inhale that, snag a few of Aidan’s beers froht hours of sleep

When the knock ca a towel around his hips, he grabbed the money he’d left on the foyer entry table and pulled open the front door