Page 8 (1/2)

The man behind the counter nodded quickly "Of course, sir I’ll just go check on a few things in back"

Cole had a way of focusing all of his attention on her that rattled her brain--and ly damp

She couldn’t believe the way she heated up beneath his gaze No other man had ever made her feel this way, like she couldn’t control her horood-looking And built like a bodybuilder No, it was so

It was the way his eyes said Mine when he looked at her

Just like they were doing right now

She took a breath to try to clear her head, but the breath was so shaky she aler beneath her chin and tipped her chin up

"Isn’t this exciting?" she asked, trying to give him a confident smile

"Yes," he agreed, and then, "Tell ’s wrong," the sa to everyone her entire life, whether or not it was true

His finger moved from her chin up her cheek "I can handle the truth, sweet Anna"

And the thing was, she suddenly believed hiaze, she said, "It’s not that I don’t want to do this I et married and I said yes, so we’re here and I’reat, but then when you started asking about paperwork, I--"

Well, it had just seemed so cold So businesslike So far from the heat that had driven them here

"I kind of started to freak out" She sucked in a breath "But I’ hi the knot in her sto it difficult to focus past the fact that his fingertips were now traveling along the outside of her earlobe, she said, "Davis" His fingers ran down the side of her neck and it made so many wicked and wild desires jump to life inside that she had to close her eyes for a minute to try and keep her balance

"Want to know mine?"

Anna opened her eyes in surprise "Of course I do," she told hi that, I can’t concentrate"

His full, ers across her collarbone and down the underside of her upper arm "Good"

More moisture flooded her panties and she couldn’t hold back a soft moan of pleasure

"So sweet, Anna So dah her at his heated words sent her reeling Needing desperately to ground herself in soainst his chest But instead of grounding her, when she breathed in the heady scent of him--a clean, male scent that drew her in even deeper and made her want to rub herself all over hi other than how , this was so that ate away at her

And then she felt his hands on her shoulders, pushing her back far enough that he could hold her gaze again "You’ll be Anna Taylor soon"

Her breath caught in her throat It was a heck of a way to tell her his last naain--was she really about to leave Anna Davis, the woman she’d been for nearly thirty years, behind?--the chapel’s front door opened and an attractive gray-haired man walked in