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"Have You Done That?"

He’d seen enough galares in football, but instead of being cowed by the four snarled words, Anna’s answering s that he alht that surrounded her

"No," she said, still s "I haven’t" She went to her tippy toes and tilted her face up to his to press a soft, short kiss to histhat I could have if I’d wanted to"

On the verge of dragging her by the hair up to his roorowled, "Hell, baby, you could have any guy here in ten seconds flat"

But he only wanted her to want hi anyone has ever said toto understand her--no question about it, woe, endless ain "If you want to be crazy for once, I can help you

What do you say, Anna? Should we be crazy together?"

"You mean crazier than--" She actually looked both ways and lowered her voice to a near-whisper "--sleeping together?"

He chuckled against her ainst her lips for another quick taste At her indrawn breath he said, "Oh yeah A whole lot crazier"

A half-dozen expressions moved across her face

Pleasure

Excitement

Curiosity

Desire

Doubt

And then, as if it were single handedly going to lock down the coffin on his plans: Full-on fear

But then, instead of pulling out of his ar no, she took a deep breath and said, "You’re not talking about gaainst her lips--he was proud of her for not running, ridiculously i as she had--he was surprised to feel her tongue slide out across hiswhat she wanted--because he wanted it just as much--he plundered her mouth with his He wanted to map out every sinfully sweet corner and crevasse, wanted to spend hours kissing her until he knew exactly what made her moan with pleasure

Finally, he let her up for air and when she looked up at hi and aroused and so damn beautiful he could hardly believe it, he was blindsided by the strength of what he felt for a wohe’d never felt before, so he’d never wanted to feel

Shit This wasn’t in the plans

His grand this for his grandmother

He had to reirl like Anna wasn’t because he was actually looking for someone to love, but because he just needed it to look that way for a little while

His throat tightened again at the thought of losing his grandmother At how quickly his life with her could come to an end