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His eyes were dark as they held hers "Yes"

Her breath caught in her throat "Giving away an expensive car won’t change anything between us You know that, right?"

"If I thought I could buy you, I would have done it that first day I met you Don’t insult us both" The bite of his words softened as he added, "You were very convincing up on that stage, Heather"

She flushed, biting back the apology on her tongue Instead, she said, "It’s too much, Zach Especially since you didn’t exactly take much time to think over the donation"

"No," he told her in as serious a voice as she’d ever heard froh Just thinking about whathands iven away soe I’ so precious"

"It’s just a car, Heather A hunk of ive away anything truly precious" His eyes darkened even further with heat and a flash of emotion that hit her just behind her breastbone "You must know by now that I’m far too selfish for that"

He always did that to her, made it hard for her to find her breath at the saive in to a sreed

"Greedy, too," he said as he finally ed to forget how good his goodbye kiss had been that ave her in front of the Fairotten a thing about that earlier kiss And she wouldn’t be forgetting anything about this one, either

When he finally let her go, she was glad his ars

"Besides," heto see you in that dress--and knowing I’ to strip it off you later--is worth every penny"

Heather liked him so much iven away the car because he wanted people to be impressed with him, if he’d done it to try to buy a part of her heart, she could have written him off as just another rich blowhard with more money than sense

But he’d clearly done it si to do