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She wasn’t the only one who could see through it now

It was instinctive for them to make their way to the library, a warh the garden s They both sat on the worn, dark leather couch, and Paige kicked off her shoes, tucking her feet beneath her

They’d often been alone in his library, talking about books or politics or a work proble with But he’d never been this aware of being alone with her Never so conscious of how her lips

"You entle as the siven him earlier "I know I do, and they’re not even my brother and sister" And mother The tords she didn’t say aloud echoed between the to say was, "Tony and Kelsey--I like theet to know them better?"

"Yes" There was no hesitation when it caht of their ut clench

"You like suddenly finding you have family, don’t you?"

He leaned his chin on his hand and nodded, the s its way to his ood people Susan and Bob would like them" It was a massive understatement Susan would adore them

"But?" she asked

"I didn’t say but"

"So of all" She leaned closer, lowered her voice "Talk to me, Evan Tell ht, her skin glowed, and her e--co care of hiainst hi hiet, if only for a handful of naked, erotically charged moments, what a mess his life was, top to bottoe, when all she’d ever done was give

Paige couldn’t breathe Not when she felt as if they were on a precipice With a loo fall whose consequences could beeither of the

She’d meant to help him ords, with her skills at therapy, not with her body