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"I can barely drive in the dark," she said, knowing she was babbling now, but standing there in only her bra and shorts had her nerves bubbling up all over again

This ti, she could hear it in his low chuckle The warhter washed over her the way it always did and helped settle her down some

For all the times he had irritated or frustrated her, the truth was she’d always liked being with hi with a man, which was precisely why she’d made sure they didn’t end up in his bedrooulations about as allowable

Great sex was obviously on the lement wasn’t

But where, she had to wonder, did seduction fall?

Only, as Zach’s hands spanned her waist beforeto stroke over the taut muscles of her back, she couldn’t hold onto the question

All she could do was feel

And, oh, hoonderful was it to have strong hands on her, working deep to relax parts of her that had been tight for so long she hadn’t even been aware they were tense

"You feel so good, Heather Just the way I knew you would"

She could hear the honest appreciation in his voice, knew it didn’t s to a hundred wo it to her now

He moved his hands up to her shoulder blades and found a knot that had her al as he pressed into it with absolutely zero h care of yourself," he admonished in that low voice that made her insides turn to liquid "You work too hard And that big ently spun her around so that her back was to his front and he could dig harder into her shoulders "He needs to be e was turning her to ain, "He’s not a mutt, he’s a purebred"

"Funny," Zach said as he slid her hair over one shoulder, close enough now that she could feel his warm breath on her exposed neck, "he always answers to ed?"

She still couldn’t believe the way her dog had taken to Zach, considering his basic distrust of allbeneath the surface to people’s true natures They kne to read a false serous threator, conversely, that a man who acted like an island was capable of such warain

Before she realized it, he had the clasp of her bra undone and orking it off her shoulders so that it was falling to the floor to join her shirt Even in the dark, she wanted to cover up, wanted to lift her hands over her brsts, though she’d already consented to sleep with Zach

"A you nervous?" he asked, his lips nearly at her earlobe now as he moved closer still to her now half-naked body