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Aidan scooped Lily up off the desk and gave her what looked like a bone-crunching hug

"You okay?" she asked hi sht" He kissed her and tossed the ice pack to Bailey "Good luck with that," he said "He’s a terrible patient" And then he carried Lily right out of the office Given the giggles co from the latter, he wouldn’t be bothered by Hudson’s countenance again until at least tomorrow

"Does it hurt?" Bailey asked hi back, she locked the door and turned to him He stepped into her at the same entle but didn’t stay that way Finally she stu looks thather off to his cave like the Neanderthal he was

Still s at him like maybe the sun and the moon rose and set in his eyes, she slowly lifted his hand… and very gently guided the ice pack in to his goddaer over his lips

He stared at her as the cold absorbed into his skin, soothing the ache as surely as having her pressed up against him soothed the rest of the world away, back behind a brick here nothing could get at them

"Better?" she asked, her hand over his on the ice pack

"Yes, but that’s because you’re pressed up against me," he said "It’s not the ice pack"

She shook her head She was onto hiot in one good punch before I restrained hi tiotten the juht

Don’t you? a voice asked inside his head

Yeah, okay So he knew exactly what had happened Bailey He’d gone into that call thinking about her, soft and warht And suitably distracted, he’d been taken by surprise

That shit had to stop

But now here he ith a soft, warm, sweetly sexy woman in the circle of his arms, and not just any wo of since he’d first seen her on top of the

Soot him on a level that no one really had, not since… Jacob

And even knowing that this was going to come back and bite him on the ass at some point didn’t stop him He drew her close and breathed her in and said her naers sinking into his hair, answering the question he hadn’t voiced out loud

As Hudson’s arhtened around Bailey, she became aware of the closeness of their bodies No, that was a lie She was always extremely aware of Hud’s body

He walked her backward and she caainst the credenza He dipped his head and even as her brain screa her face and parting her lips to accept his

Once his mouth fastened on to hers, she was lost It had seemed so complicated, but when he ith her like this, it was suddenly the opposite It was the siive hiet even closer He was hard

Everywhere

Her heart had gone haywire and she was already breathing in little gasps as they broke apart to stare at each other and then dove back in Desire was a living thing within her, coiling out fro wave of pleasure with it

Hud’s hands slid up fro a sound of low ain and then back up, beneath her shirt this ti at full, happy attention