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A entle caress on her cheek

"Don’t shut ive hie to answer his questions now, she ht that al less than the perfectto see"

"Then that makes me the luckiest rin that made her heart skip a beat in her chest, "I already knew"

But wait--what had he just said?

"Lucky?" she repeated "But my hair is knotted and my makeup has rubbed off all over the pillowcase"

"Every time you’ve been in front of a camera, I’ve been stunned by your beauty and by hoell you do your job But getting to see you now, a littlefeatures a little out of focus while you’re still catching your breath fro love with me--" He picked up one of her hands and put it over his breastbone "It does soht here"

Feeling his heart beat strong and steady against her palm steadied hers, too

"You’ll always be beautiful to me, Mary Especially now"

His sords ift, than any poetic words possibly could have

No one but Jack had ever truly wanted her the way she really was

"You’re right," she murmured as she wrapped her naked limbs around his, "breakfast can wait"

Unlikeslienetics The other part was that she loved being inlove Besides, she loved eating tooup delicious food

But as she sat at her breakfast table across froe even the tiniest bite of the eggs, crisp bacon and toast he’d just whipped up for them while she’d spoken briefly with Janeen on the telephone Mary supposed it stood to reason that a bachelor in his early thirties would have to kno to cook or else he ht starve, but this was a breakfast that under other circumstances she would have wolfed down